Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Crime - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: W. H. Bowers and Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, married three just months, seated together at a court proceeding. Olive Bowers was accused of plotting with Elmer M. Archer to poison her husband. The plot was discovered when their conversations were overheard on a 2-party telephone line.
Date Created:: March, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Unidentified man in court for the murder trial of crossing guard Albert Dyer. Dyer had lured three Inglewood girls into the hills, where he strangled them with rope and his hands. He was eventually found guilty and executed.
Date Created:: [circa August 12, 1937]
1937-08-12
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Typed note on negative states "Death threat sent to Judge Georgia Bullock."
Date Created:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: An unidentified lawyer approaching Robert S. James as he sits in the witness stand. A map of his home is visible behind him. He was most likely testifying in his own defense for the murder trial of his wife Mary Emma James. He purportedly had an affair with his niece, which spurred him to tie down his wife and have a rattlesnake bite her, and then later drown her in their fish pond. He was supposedly helped by his friend, ex-sailor Charles H. Hope, who was also charged with murder.
Date Created:: [circa May 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Albert Dyer and his lawyers William Neeley and Ellery Cuff at Dyer's murder trial. Dyer lured three Inglewood girls to the hills, where he strangled them to death with his hands as well as rope. From left to right is Albert Dyer and public defenders Neeley and Cuff.
Date Created:: [circa August 10, 1937]
1937-08-10
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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