Subject: Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Norman Burgess and Mildred Irwin (aka Betty Lee) sit side-by-side on a bench, hands folded in front of them. He holds a cigarette. She holds a pair of gloves. Related to the murder case of Robert. L. Moody on board the City of Panama pleasure ship, August 28, 1933.
Date:: [between September and December 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Eugene Williams, Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney, pointing to a bedroom on a floorplan of 10587 Holman Avenue, Los Angeles. This photograph was possibly taken during the July, 1934 trial of Louis Payne, who confessed to murdering his mother and brother at this address.
Date:: July, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Handwriting on negative states "Mrs.Walburga Oesterreich" In 1922 Walburga Oesterreich’s husband Fred Oesterreich was shot and killed supposedly by a burglar in their Los Angeles, Calif. home. Eight years later after being arrested for another crime Otto Sanhuber confessed to police that he had killed Fred Oesterreich in party with Walburga. Sanhuber stated that he had lived in the attic of the Oesterreich’s home for years in order to carry on an affair with Walburga. In 1930 Sanhuber was put on trial and was convicted of manslaughter. Walburga Oesterreich was tried for murder and conspiracy but her jury ended in deadlock. She was never retried.
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Payne, photographed in profile, fixes an intent stare outside of the frame.
Date:: [between June, 1934 and January, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Five men seated in front of the judge's bench and another man farther behind. Court appears to not be in session at the moment.
Date:: December 8, 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Murder suspect Gladys Carter staring intently, with her attorney Ed Haumsech by her side. Both are seated at a table, with documents in front of Haumsech. In the background are spectators in the courtroom gallery. Carter was charged with fatally shooting her houseguest of two years, Frances Walker. She suspected Walker of having a romantic relationship with her husband, Deputy Sheriff Archie Carter.
Date:: [June, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Barbara Graham, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins were convicted of the murder of Mabel Monahan in 1953, during a robbery attempt in her home, and were executed two years later. John True and Baxter Shorter participated in the robbery. Shorter confessed when arrested for another charge, and was kidnapped and murdered by Perkins and Santo.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Barbara Graham, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins were convicted of the murder of Mabel Monahan in 1953, during a robbery attempt in her home, and were executed two years later.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: An attorney holds a photograph of the bound hands of murder victim Mabel Monahan during the trial of her accused murderers.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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