Policewoman Jean Peirce with Detective Lt. Leroy Sanderson, Los Angeles, circa December 1935

Title: Policewoman Jean Peirce with Detective Lt. Leroy Sanderson, Los Angeles, circa December 1935
Date Created: [December, 1935?]
Date: 1935-10/1935-12
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Dt. Lt. Sanderson talking with Policewoman Peirce. Photo related to Peirce’s accidental shooting of Officer Yancey in October 1935. Peirce was put on trial for manslaughter in December 1935 and eventually acquitted.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Peirce, Jean, Mrs.; Sanderson, Leroy E., Det. Lieut.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Peirce, Jean
Sanderson, Leroy E.
Yancey, Owen D.
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People
Firearms
Police--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00254wwz
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