Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Language: No linguistic content / Names: Aafje (Schooner yacht) and Turner, Gertrude, b. ca. 1907 / Subject: People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, January 2, 1938, Yacht Pair Face Charge, Mad Pirate’s Crew Members to Be Arraigned Tomorrow. The closing chapters of the mad piracy voyage of the yacht Aafje which cost the life of Dwight L. Faulding, Santa Barbara hotel man, in a murder by Jack Morgan, later slain by members of his crew, are scheduled to be written next week in Federal court. … [Robert] Horne and [George] Spernak threw Morgan to the sharks as a defense measure to save their own lives and those of three women and a child aboard the ill-fated schooner. …
Date:: [1937?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Finley, Howard, b. 1899 or 1900
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection