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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:: James P. Watson had married between 16-22 women, 7 of which he confessed to killing. He was caught when his last wife, Kathryn Wombacher became suspicious of his activities and hired a private investigator. The investigator uncovered Watson’s scheme of placing personal ads in newspapers under different alias in attempts to marry women and gain their property. Once under arrest Watson confessed to multiple murders of previous wives and led police to the grave of his last victim, Nina Lee DeLaney. He was sentenced to life for the murder of DeLaney. In 1939 he died of pneumonia in San Quentin prison
Date:: May 9, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of John W. Hanby in his Sheriff's uniform, photographed from the chest up.
Date:: December 30, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Undersheriff Eugene Biscailuz was in charge of the Indian Committee for the Los Angeles gathering of 'Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.' In this image, wearing a Shriner's hat, he greets Navajo Indians at a train station. On the left is Tall Scout (aka Slau-ee-Nez), a Navajo who had worked as a scout and tracker for the U. S. Army. On his right is a Navajo man named Willow Fence. On the far left holding a blanket is B. I. Staples, a white man who joined the Navajo tribe in 1923. Reported in "SHRINE INVASION REACHES HIGH WATER MARK TODAY: Medinah Temple of Chicago Will Arrive With 1500 in Party; Islam Here in Force," Los Angeles Times, 01 June 1925: A1
Date:: June 1, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Caption on sleeve of negative reads:Calif. Centennial at Jonathan ClubFrom Left to right:Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, Sylvester Weaver (as Gen. Fremont), Leo Carrillo, Gov. Earl Warren, Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Louis J. Canepa (Pres. of Jonathan Club)
Date:: April 24, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Ritchie, Bob
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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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