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Title: Courtroom scene during Gordon Stewart Northcott's murder trial, Riverside, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
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: Gordon Stewart Northcott was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928, which his mother admitted to. She received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23.
Text from negative sleeve: Norcott [sic], Gordon S. Murder Case
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3709_G2195
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Riverside
Serial murderers--California--Riverside
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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