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Description:: Sheriffs digging in rocky terrain with onlookers surrounding them during search for James P. Watson's murder victim in Sugarloaf Canyon. Watson had married several women, 7 of which he confessed to killing. He was sentenced to life for murder. Reported in "IN MODERN BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET.: Here are the Wives of James P. Watson, Seven He is Known to Have Murdered, Three He Probably Slew and Twelve Who Escaped with Their Lives. In the Case of the Monster Who is to be Sentenced Here Tomorrow. STORY OF THE MODERN BLUEBEARD; Watson, Perhaps Part Negro, Betrays Evidences of Revolting Moral Perversion in the Manner of His Many Murders of Women Whom He Married," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1920: II1.
Date:: May 8, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Sheriffs digging in rocky terrain with onlookers surrounding them during search for James P. Watson's murder victim in Sugarloaf Canyon. Watson had married several women, 7 of which he confessed to killing. He was sentenced to life for murder. Photo appears with the article "IN MODERN BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET.: Here are the Wives of James P. Watson, Seven He is Known to Have Murdered, Three He Probably Slew and Twelve Who Escaped with Their Lives. In the Case of the Monster Who is to be Sentenced Here Tomorrow. STORY OF THE MODERN BLUEBEARD; Watson, Perhaps Part Negro, Betrays Evidences of Revolting Moral Perversion in the Manner of His Many Murders of Women Whom He Married," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1920: II1.
Date:: May 8, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: James P. Watson had married several women, 7 of which he confessed to killing. He was sentenced to life for murder. Reported in "IN MODERN BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET.: Here are the Wives of James P. Watson, Seven He is Known to Have Murdered, Three He Probably Slew and Twelve Who Escaped with Their Lives. In the Case of the Monster Who is to be Sentenced Here Tomorrow. STORY OF THE MODERN BLUEBEARD; Watson, Perhaps Part Negro, Betrays Evidences of Revolting Moral Perversion in the Manner of His Many Murders of Women Whom He Married," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1920: II1.
Date:: 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Mrs. Madison denies shooting husband Eric Madison and speculates that the man who was buried at his funeral was not him, and also denies that the corpse shown to her in photographs of her husband are not of his body.
Date:: June 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Nellie has admitted that she shot husband Eric Madison out of self defense after he tried to attack her with a knife.
Date:: June 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Charges of manslaughter have been filed against Charles F. Mayes in the death of Jessie H. Eddy, whom Mayes struck at a crosswalk at Glendale Boulevard and Park Avenue. Mayes fled the scene but was tracked down by his license plate number.
Date:: December 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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