Genre: forensic photographs / Subject: Evidence (law) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Another court document for a C. C. Julian case has a caption identifying it as an exhibit in a case in Judge Doran's court (image ark no. 21198/zz002cv8xp). Proceedings against C. C. Julian in Judge Doran's court are reported in the Los Angeles Times from 1926 through 1928.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two photographs of fingerprints pinned on a wall with a thumbtack. The photo on the right is labeled with "L.P.K." on the bottom left. The fingerprints were used as forensic evidence in the Leo Patrick Kelly murder case. Leo Patrick Kelly was tried for the murder of Myrtle Mellus. Reported in "Fingerprint Brings Order for New Search of Mellus Home as Grand Jury Indicts Kelly: HUNT EXPECTED TO TRIP SLAYER Officers Think Evidence of Identity to be Found Inquisitors Hear Husband Tell of Discovering Body Quest for Mystery Woman Still Proves Vain," Los Angeles Times, 09 Aug. 1928: A2.
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Map of possible burial sites related to the Gordon Stewart Northcott murders.
Date:: [circa Dececember 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of evidence in the Myrtle Mellus murder case: two bottles of H & S Scotch Whiskey and a third bottle labeled "811 R[...] M. Mellus, murder, 8 for 8."
Date:: [1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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