Image / Mrs. Olivia Shorter, wife of informer

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Title: Mrs. Olivia Shorter, wife of informer
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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: Photo of Mrs. Olivia Shorter on her way to the preliminary hearings of Emmett R. Perkins, 44, on kidnapping charges. Mrs. Shorter positively identified Emmett Perkins as the man who kidnapped her husband at gunpoint. Sensational details of the kidnapping of Baxter Shorter, the Mabel Monohan murder informer, were to be told by his wife at the preliminary hearings.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00030039
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 732-Graham, Barbara.
CARL0000033761
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10664
Subject: Graham, Barbara E
Monohan, Mabel
Perkins, Emmett
Santo, Jack
Shorter, Baxter
Shorter, Olivia
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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