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Police Detective examines the contents of a trunk used by Winnie Ruth Judd to ship a corpse, Los Angeles, 1931

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Title: Police Detective examines the contents of a trunk used by Winnie Ruth Judd to ship a corpse, Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1931
1931-10
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: A police detective leans over a pile of soiled fabric. Behind him is an open trunk. These materials were among the luggage that Winnie Ruth Judd used to ship the corpses of Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes Anne LeRoi from Phoenix to Los Angeles by train.
Text from negative sleeve: Judd, Winnie Ruth.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3709_G2259
ark:/21198/z1dk17mt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--Arizona--Phoenix
Judd, Winnie Ruth, 1905-
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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