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Title
Handwriting sample
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
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
Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor was murdered Feb. 2, 1922 and the crime went unsolved. This picture shows the handwriting of Edward F. Sands, Taylor's former cook, valet & secretary. He was accused of forging checks using his employer's name while Taylor was in Europe. He then disappeared.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00010899
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1625-Taylor, William Desmond.
CARL0000012940
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8432
Subject
Sands, Edward F
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Taylor, William Desmond,1877-1922

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