Images of Gordon Stewart Northcott during or after his murder trial, Los Angeles, Riverside or San Quentin, 1928-1930
Item Overview
- Title
- Images of Gordon Stewart Northcott during or after his murder trial, Los Angeles, Riverside or San Quentin, 1928-1930
- Date Created
- [between 1928-1930]
- Date
- 1928/1930
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph of three images of Gordon Stewart Northcott during his trial. He was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928, which his mother admitted to. She received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Youth Convicted as Boy-Butcher." 8 Feb, 1929: 4
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
- Location
- California
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Serial murderers--California--Riverside
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2053
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dczrw
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .