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Title
Farm near Wineville
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
Rights Information
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Description
The "murder farm" of Gordon Stewart Northcott near Wineville in Riverside County. The panorama shows in detail the exact places where dark deeds transpired, according to Deputy District Attorney Earl Redwine and Sanford Clark, Northcott's 15-year-old nephew, whose story brought about Northcott's arrest at age 24 in Canada. Clark accused Northcott of mistreating, murdering and burying boys in quicklime. Two boys were murdered and three buried in the chicken houses in the background. Arrow at right shows a coop where Clark asserted Northcott imprisoned Walter Collins, kidnapped Los Angeles boy, and finally killed him with an axe. Collins was held captive in the coop, slept there on a rude cot, and could only look into the pens at right. Slaying and burial sites of the Winslow brothers are noted.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00027479
Herald Examiner Collection
2207 Northcott case.
CARL0000030276
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10025
Subject
Northcott, Gordon Stewart,--d. 1929
Northcott, Sarah Louise,--1868-
Redwine, Earl
Crime--California--Wineville
Murder--California--Wineville
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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