Poultry house in investigation of Gordon Northcott case, Mint Canyon (Santa Clarita), circa 1928

Item Overview

Title

Poultry house in investigation of Gordon Northcott case, Mint Canyon (Santa Clarita), circa 1928

Date Created

circa 1928

Date

1928

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Officers have found bones and a bloody ax on the site where Gordon Northcott is thought to have murdered several boys. A Texas report states that two of the alleged victims are alive and safe in the state.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Paradoxical Situations Complicate Task of Investigators in Butcher Farm Quest," Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep 1928: A3.
A chicken coop highlighted against a flat and grassy area, the coop is shown to be a long and narrow building with several open doors leading to wired areas of grass and dirt.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates (Box 27) 3
Text from newspaper caption: [P. & A. and Times photos] Riverside County "Death Ranch" Combed for Victims Gordon Stewart Northcott (full-length figure at right) and three boys, Walter Collins and Louis and Nelson Winslow, who have been mentioned in the case, are shown in upper panel. Middle photo shows Sheriff Sweeters of Riverside county (right) and Deputy Sheriff Quinn examining blood-stained ax to which human hair was clinging, found on the Northcott ranch. Below is the chicken coop cited in the story of Sanford Clark.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Santa Clarita (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Poultry houses--California--Santa Clarita
Criminal investigations--California--Santa Clarita