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Title: Overell yacht blast re-enacted
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The prosecution staff claims the yacht on which Mr. and Mrs. Overell met their deaths was blown up. Photographers watch as Roger Greene, Prosecution criminologist, re-enacts the yacht blast. A puff of smoke floates into the air as the ignition head of a detonator cap is set off by a dry cell battery hooked up to an alarm clock.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00031785
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2190.
CARL0000034013
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10780
Subject: Overell, Beulah Louise,--1930-
Gollum, George,--1926-
Overell, Walter
Greene, Roger
Crime--California--Newport Beach
Murder--California--Newport Beach
Trials--California--Santa Ana
Criminologists
Prosecution--California--Santa Ana
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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