Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Subject: Crime - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Ledger documenting the purchase of sodium arsenate for 10 cents by Elmer M. Archer at the Adams Pharmacy in Santa Monica on January 24, 1926. Archer purchased the poison under the name Joe Jacks. Archer was in love with the newlywed Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt and tried to convince her to poison her new husband, W. H. Bowers.
Date:: March 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Arthur B. Crouch was known in Helensville, New Zealand as John Grey or "Honest John."
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Close-up of windows of the house of W. H. Bowers in Los Angeles. The photograph was taken in the course of a court proceeding in which his wife, Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, was accused of plotting to poison him with her friend Elmer M. Archer. Olive Bowers used window shade signals to let Archer know if her husband was at home or not. The poison plot was overheard on the 2-party telephone line.
Date:: March 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Bowers appears with the article "Bride Denies Murder Plot; Says Plan to Poison Husband Was Only Joke; Man Confesses Part After Phone Talk Heard; Husband and Pastor Will be Questioned Today," Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1926
Date:: March 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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