Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles and Crime - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Unidentified man in court for the murder trial of crossing guard Albert Dyer. Dyer had lured three Inglewood girls into the hills, where he strangled them with rope and his hands. He was eventually found guilty and executed.
Date:: 1937-08-12
[circa August 12, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: W. H. Bowers and Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, married three just months, seated together at a court proceeding. Olive Bowers was accused of plotting with Elmer M. Archer to poison her husband. The plot was discovered when their conversations were overheard on a 2-party telephone line.
Date:: March, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection