Murder suspect Fred Stettler and coroner Frank Monfort, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Murder suspect Fred Stettler and coroner Frank Monfort, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

February 25, 1936

Date

1936-02-25

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Fred sits on the witness stand, his body facing Frank Monfort. The legs of some of the jury members can be seen sitting on Fred's other side.
Photograph appears with the article, "Fitts to Act on Stettler," Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb 1936: 9.
25-year-old Swiss chauffeur Gottfried "Fred" Stettler is being held in suspicion of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Dorothea Barbour. Car dealer Smyt Lentz claimed Stettler confessed to the murders then repudiated his story.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 3841 - Ray Pinker Fred Stettler clock murder 2 -24-36 [stamped:] Feb 28 1936
Handwritten on negative: Gottfried Stettler Frank Monfort
Text from newspaper caption: Fred Stettler, right, held in connection with the murder last Wednesday of Carl S. Barbour, 66 years of age, and his wife, Dorothea G. Barbour, 61, refused to testify when called to the stand at an inquest into their deaths by Deputy Coroner Monfort, left, yesterday.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Monfort, Frank, 1876-1966
Stettler, Gottfried, b. 1911

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Chauffeurs--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles