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Photograph caption reads: "She remembers hearing her mother repeat Mrs. Bessie Hensley's eyewitness account of the Diane Sparks murder. Shown above is Pauline Brown, 19, whose mother, Mrs. Orma Brown, works at the "metal saw next to Bessie's at Lockheed." Mrs. Brown said she heard the tale "probably Jan. 30," the day after Mrs. Sparks was murdered". Ramon Gonzales was put on trial for the murder of Mrs. Diane Sparks, his next-door neighbor, whose body was found in an abandoned olive grove in Roscoe a month after she was reported missing. He was found innocent. Photograph dated: May 1, 1946.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 14 cm. Photographic prints
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