Genre: news photographs / Subject: Detectives--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Chester Lloyd (left) and William Ashe stand on either side of an Ostrander Seymour Co. letterpress. The image appears on a phot page "Extensive Counterfeiting Plant Is Uncovered on South Main Street," Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 1929: 8.
Date:: November 21, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A cropped version of this photograph appears in the article, "Officer Aides Death Alibi," Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 1934: A5.
Date:: November 26, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph relates to article: "Child Found Near Death From Blows: Confession Made By Brother," Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 1935: 1.
Date:: February 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph depicts detectives examining the trunk where the body of Rose Marie Happel was found (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times). She was murdered by her husband John H. Happel.
Date:: December 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph depicts detectives searching the room where Rose Marie Happel was found. She was murdered by her husband, John H. Happel (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times).
Date:: December 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: An unidentified detective keeping guard by the jail cell of infamous murderer Robert S. James. James had tied down his pregnant fifth wife and forced a rattlesnake to bite her, and then later drowned her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
Date:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: An unidentified detective keeping guard by the jail cell of infamous murderer Robert S. James. James had tied down his pregnant fifth wife and forced a rattlesnake to bite her, and then later drowned her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
Date:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: An unidentified detective keeping guard by the jail cell of infamous murderer Robert S. James. James had tied down his pregnant fifth wife and forced a rattlesnake to bite her, and then later drowned her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
Date:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The two investigating detectives go over the scene of the crime where Kelley hid inside the closet of the maid's room in the Mellus household after murdering Myrtle Mellus. One detective (standing) holds a pistol and grabs onto the back collar of the other detective (crouching) who appears to be reaching for something inside the closet. There are many bloody fingerprints, stains, and smudges on the closet door. Possibly related to the article, "Newly Discovered Evidence Fastens Murder of Mrs. Mellus on Kelly, Investigators State: CLOTHING HELD LINK OF GUILT Dead Woman's Garments Found in Kitchen Body Taken Upstairs After Death, Officers Say Fingerprints Declared of Small Importance," Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 1928: A3.
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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