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Sheriff C. A. Sweeters and Deputy Sheriff J. R. Quinn watch crew searching for bodies at the Northcott ranch, Riverside County, 1928

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Title: Sheriff C. A. Sweeters and Deputy Sheriff J. R. Quinn watch crew searching for bodies at the Northcott ranch, Riverside County, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
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 crew searches for bodies at the chicken ranch of Gordon Stewart Northcott, who was later convicted of the murders of three boys.
Text from press release from 2P & A Photos (Los Angeles Bureau): [...] Sheriff C. A. Sweeters and Deputy Sheriff J. R. Quinn (center of group) directing digging operations of a crew that worked all night in a search for bodies under the cement floor of the garage at the so-called murder farm near Corona, Riverside County California 9/17/28
Text from negative sleeve: Sweeters, C.A. Riverside County Sheriff. 1928
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3731_G4789
ark:/21198/z1pw2cbv
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Homicides--California
Criminal investigations--California
Quinn, John R., 1889-1979
Sweeters, Clemens A. (Clemens Augustus), 1881-1967
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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