Language: No linguistic content / Resource Type: still image / Names: Bendowski, Helen F., 1903-1933 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Harold E. Wolcott was charged with the murder of his lover Helen Bendowski in August, 1933. She was found on the penthouse roof above Wolcott’s flower shop in Pasadena, dead from a bullet through her chest.
Date:: [August-October, 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, August 17, 1933, Principal Figures at Inquiry on Penthouse Tragedy. … Mrs. Zelda Smith, who testified as to what she saw and heard on night of slaying. …
Date:: August 16, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Men and women gather on the roof of Harold Wolcott’s apartment, where Helen Bendowski was fatally shot. A camera tripod and what appears to be a pigeon coop are in the foreground.
Date:: [August-October, 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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