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Title
Walter Collins impostor
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 boy who returned as Walter Collins pencils specimens of his writing, which proves he is not the real Walter Collins, according to Milton Carlson, handwriting expert. Later it was learned his real name is Arthur Hutchens, alias Billy Fields.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00027490
Herald Examiner Collection
2207 Northcott case.
CARL0000030303
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10038
Subject
Northcott, Gordon Stewart,--d. 1929
Northcott, Sarah Louise,--1868-
Hutchens, Arthur
Crime--California--Wineville
Murder--California--Wineville
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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