Genre: news photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Names: James, Robert S. and Allen, Mike / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Robert S. James (left) and Charles H. Hope, seated in the center of the front row. Both men are accused in some capacity of the murder of James's wife, Mary Busch James, by subjecting her to rattlesnake bites and drowning her. Also pictured is Mike Allen (back right), owner of the Ocean Park Pier reptile pit, one of the locations James and Hope shopped for rattlesnakes.
Date:: May 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives