Mrs. Grace Du Bois, accused of the murder of her son, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Mrs. Grace Du Bois, accused of the murder of her son, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

December 25, 1935

Date

1935-12-25

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Mrs. Grace W. Du Bois was jailed on suspicion of killing her 33-year-old son Dr. Charles N. Du Bois with a gunshot to the back of the head in the kitchen of his home. Mrs. Du Bois, who claims an intruder is responsible for the murder, was quoted with the confusing statement: "You say I might have done it. I don't believe I did, although I might have done it. I still think I am right in what I told you at first. I believe there was a young man there. Maybe there wasn't- but I believe there was."
Mrs. Grace W. Du Bois sits hunched over, wrapped in a fur coat and black scarves as she clutches a napkin to her face.
A smaller version of this photograph appears with the article, "Mother Mum On Slaying," Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec 1935: A2.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Grace DuBois, who, according to Capt. Wallis of homicide squad, alternately denied slaying her son, Dr. Charles DuBois, and said she "might have done it."
Handwritten on negative: Grace Du Bois
Text from negative sleeve: 4225 - Grace Du Bois Shot Son [stamped:] Dec 31 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Du Bois, Grace W, b. 1875

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles