Henry Bodkin and Buron Fitts question William E. Tanner, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Henry Bodkin and Buron Fitts question William E. Tanner, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

August 1935

Date

1935-08

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Tanner sits in a chair between Fitts and Bodkin. The attorneys lean in towards Tanner, who seems to be in mid-conversation sitting with his hands folded in his lap.
The investigation of the torture-kidnapping of Henry G. Bodkin and his wife has been reopened in suspicion that there was another accomplice with Tanner, Harry Brooks, and J. J. Hill. Tanner and Brooks have been sentenced to death for torturing Bodkin by burning his fingers with matches.
Photograph appears with the article, "Doomed Man Aids Inquiry," Los Angeles Times, 02 Aug 1935: A1.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: L2R Henry G. Bodkins x Wm E Tanner x Buron Fitts 8-1-35
Text from newspaper caption: William E. Tanner, center, facing death on the gallows with Harry Brooks for the kidnapping of Henry G. Bodkin, left, attorney, is shown being requestioned by Dist.-Atty. Fitts reportedly in connection with another man's complicity in the crime.
Text from negative sleeve: 1364 - Henry G. Bodkins Wm E Tanner Buron Fitts Bodkins Kidnaping 8-1-35 [stamped:] [illegible]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Bodkin, Henry, 1886-1972
Tanner, William E.

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles