Resource Type: still image / Location: Riverside (Calif.) / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Members of the American Newspaper Publishers Association gathered at the annual meeting held at the Mission Inn. A mariachi band is on the right. Reported in "FETES PLANNED FOR PUBLISHERS: Delegation From Los Angeles Will Greet Visitors Newspaper Executives to See Beauties of Southland Series of Entertainments to Mark Annual Meeting," Los Angeles Times, 09 Nov. 1931: A1.
Date:: November 10, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Gordon Stewart Northcott and his mother Louisa were accused of kidnapping, abusing & murdering 4 boys on their chicken ranch in Riverside County. Louisa confessed to killing one boy; Walter Collins and was sentenced to life in prison. Gordon was tried and convicted on 3 counts for murdering Louis & Nelson Winslow & an unidentified Latino boy. He was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930.
Date:: [between January 1, 1929-February 7, 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Mrs. Northcott is held in custody being jointly accused with her son Gordon Northcott of murdering Walter Collins.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From left to right, Deputy Sheriff C. F. Rayburn, Gordon S. Northcott and Deputy Sheriff Jack Brown sit in a row aboard a train bound for San Quentin. The 2 deputies are escorting Northcott to prison. Gordon Northcott leans forward in his seat and smiles to the camera. To the left of Northcott, C. F. Rayburn wears an uneasy look on his face. Jack Brown sits on the arm of the train car's seat at right. He holds a cigarette in one hand and looks to camera. Gordon S. Northcott was convicted of murdering 3 young boys in Riverside County. He was executed by hanging in 1930.
Date:: [circa February 11, 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A similar photograph of Gordon S. Northcott in court appears with the article, "NORTHCOTT BAFFLED: Court Denies His Insanity Plea New Judge Rules Against to Not Guilty Stand Further Delay Turned Down; One Riverside Jurist Steps Out of Case," Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 1929: 1
Date:: [circa January, 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “County Jail Has School,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 1935: 10.
Date:: September 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mrs. Northcott is held in custody being jointly accused with her son Gordon Northcott of murdering Walter Collins.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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