Search

Browse items

–

Current results range from 1937 to 1940

View distribution

Search Constraints

You searched for: Subject Homicides--California--Los Angeles ✖Remove constraint Subject: Homicides--California--Los Angeles Subject Investigation--California--Los Angeles ✖Remove constraint Subject: Investigation--California--Los Angeles
Start Over

9 Catalog Results

Number of results to display per page
View results as:
List Created with Sketch. List View List Gallery Created with Sketch. Gallery View Gallery

Search Results

Detective Lieutenants B.G. Anderson and Tommy Bryan investigating the murder of soldier Lawrence G. Marple, Los Angeles, January 4, 1940

Description:
Detective Lieutenants B.G. Anderson and Tommy Bryan from the homicide division investigating the murder of soldier Lawrence G. Marple. The man being held for the murder is discharged Navy officer Jack Rhyanne, who admitted to beating and choking Marple in his hotel room. Rhyanne is also being questioned about the earlier murder of Robert M. Byrne
Date:
January 4, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Detective Lieutenants B.G. Anderson and Tommy Bryan investigating the murder of soldier Lawrence G. Marple, Los Angeles, January 4, 1940

Detective Lieutenants B.G. Anderson and Tommy Bryan investigating the murder of soldier Lawrence G. Marple, Los Angeles, January 4, 1940

Description:
Detective Lieutenants B.G. Anderson and Tommy Bryan from the homicide division investigating the murder of soldier Lawrence G. Marple. The man being held for the murder is discharged Navy officer Jack Rhyanne, who admitted to beating and choking Marple in his hotel room. Rhyanne is also being questioned about the earlier murder of Robert M. Byrne
Date:
January 4, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Detective Lieutenants B.G. Anderson and Tommy Bryan investigating the murder of soldier Lawrence G. Marple, Los Angeles, January 4, 1940

Charles Hardaker is questioned by an investigator after the arrest of his wife for the murder of their daughter, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:
Charles Hardaker is questioned by an unidentified investigator after the arrest of his wife for the murder of their daughter. Betty Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daughter, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:
February 24, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Charles Hardaker is questioned by an investigator after the arrest of his wife for the murder of their daughter, Los Angeles, 1940

Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright during an investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife and best friend, Los Angeles, November 1937

Description:
Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale police dept. (left) with airline official Paul A. Wright early on in the investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife Evelyn and best friend, John Kimmel. A crime to which Wright had confessed. Wright testified that he shot his wife and best friend after finding them in an embrace. In the trial that followed, called the "White Flame" trial by the press, Wright eventually escaped the death pentalty and a prison sentence on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer Jerry Giesler
Date:
November 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright during an investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife and best friend, Los Angeles, November 1937

Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright leaving the office of coroner Frank Nance, Los Angeles, November 9, 1937

Description:
Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale police dept. (left) and airline official Paul A. Wright leaving the office of Coroner Frank Nance. Nance was examining the bodies of Wright's wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel. Unfortunately he received the bodies after they had been embalmed. Mrs. Wright and Kimmel had been shot, and Mr. Wright had confessed to the crime, having caught his wife and best friend in an embrace. In the trial that followed, called the "White Flame" trial by the press, Wright eventually escaped the death pentalty and a prison sentence on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer Jerry Giesler
Date:
November 9, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright leaving the office of coroner Frank Nance, Los Angeles, November 9, 1937

Room inside the deserted Palm Springs cabin where Betty Hardaker hid after murdering her daughter, Palm Springs, 1940

Description:
Room inside the deserted Palm Springs cabin where Betty Hardaker hid after murdering her daughter Geraldine Hardaker. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daughter, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Date:
February 26, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Room inside the deserted Palm Springs cabin where Betty Hardaker hid after murdering her daughter, Palm Springs, 1940

Cowboy film extra Tex Driscoll at hearing of Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Description:
Cowboy extra Tex Driscoll at an inquest for Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, who is charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke in “Gower Gulch.” Gower Gulch is the name given to the area near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street where film extras hang out waiting for work; many of the nearby studios produce westerns so often actual working cowboys come here to break into the film business. Allegedly, Blackjack shot Tyke with a .45, but many of the hundreds of Gower Gulch extras who came to the inquest testified that Tyke had started the fight and was “doped up” at the time.
Date:
February 27, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Cowboy film extra Tex Driscoll at hearing of Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Cowboy film extras Joe Phillips and Harry Willingham at hearing of Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke in Gower Gulch, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Description:
Cowboy extras Joe Phillips and Harry Willingham at an inquest for Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, who is charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke in “Gower Gulch.” Gower Gulch is the name given to the area near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street where film extras hang out waiting for work; many of the nearby studios produce westerns so often actual working cowboys come here to break into the film business. Allegedly, Blackjack shot Tyke with a .45, but many of the hundreds of Gower Gulch extras who came to the inquest testified that Tyke had started the fight and was “doped up” at the time.
Date:
February 27, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Cowboy film extras Joe Phillips and Harry Willingham at hearing of Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke in Gower Gulch, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Film extras from Gower Gulch supporting Jerome (Blackjack) Ward at hearing on the murder of Johnny Tyke, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940

Description:
Extras from Gower Gulch at an inquest supporting their friend Jerome (Blackjack) Ward, who is charged with the murder of Johnny Tyke. Gower Gulch is the name given to the area near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street where film extras hang out waiting for work; many of the nearby studios produce westerns so often actual working cowboys come here to break into the film business. Allegedly, Blackjack shot Tyke with a .45, but many of the hundreds of Gower Gulch extras who came to the inquest testified that Tyke had started the fight and was “doped up” at the time.
Date:
February 27, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Film extras from Gower Gulch supporting Jerome (Blackjack) Ward at hearing on the murder of Johnny Tyke, Los Angeles, February 27, 1940