Charles H. Hope in court with public defender William H. Sanson for his joint murder trial with Robert S. James, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Charles H. Hope in court with public defender William H. Sanson for his joint murder trial with Robert S. James, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: [circa May 7, 1936]
Date: 1936-05-07
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Ex-sailor Charles H. Hope in court with public defender William H. Sanson for his joint trial with Robert S. James. Hope aided James in the murder of Mary Emma James, by supplying deadly rattlesnakes for James and then helping him carry his wife's body outside and into a fish pool. From left to right, William H. Sanson, Charles H. Hope.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Hope, Charles; Sanson, William, Att.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Sanson and Hope

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Sanson, William H.
Hope, Charles H., 1899-1966
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
People
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Legal

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002887ts
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