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Description:: Mr. Hess holds a handgun in one hand and an ace of spades in the other.
Date:: March 18, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Holding a candlestick phone Barbara opens her mouth wide with surprise.
Date:: September 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Barbara Graham, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins were convicted of the murder of Mabel Monahan in 1953, during a robbery attempt in her home, and were executed two years later. John True and Baxter Shorter participated in the robbery. Shorter confessed when arrested for another charge, and was kidnapped and murdered by Perkins and Santo. During the trial, John True was a state witness in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Olivia Shorter, wife of Baxter Shorter, at the trial of Barbara Graham, Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo.
Date:: May 26, 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: John True, on the witness stand, looks at a document held by an attorney. Behind him is a ground plan for a residence, perhaps that of the murder victim, Mabel Monahan.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A female passenger, Mrs. Esther Pearce, pays her fare on a trolley as a male Los Angeles Railway employee, J.W. Looney, looks on. Pearce carries a coat with a fur collar on one arm. Looney wears a uniform typical of an urban railway operator or ticket taker of the time, with a brimmed cap, three-piece suit, and a portable coin dispenser belted to his middle. Another railcar can be seen in the background.
Date:: October 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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