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Title: Mrs. Christine Collins
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Mrs. Christine Collins, mother of the murdered Walter Collins, who was sent to the psychopathic ward after refusing to accept Arthur Hutchens, Jr. as her missing son. She brought a suit against Captain J. J. Jones and Police Chief James E. Davis on charges of false arrest. The Hutchens boy was found to be an imposter, and Gordon Northcott was convicted of killing Mrs. Collins' son.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027465
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2207-Northcott case.
CARL0000030262
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10010
Subject: Collins, Christine
Crime--California--Wineville
Murder--California--Wineville
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Northcott, Gordon Stewart,d. 1929
Northcott, Sarah Louise,1868-

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