US UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description
Louisa Northcott in train car on her way to San Quentin penitentiary to serve a life sentence. Gordon Stewart Northcott and his mother Louisa were accused of kidnapping, abusing & murdering 4 boys on their chicken ranch in Riverside County. Louisa confessed to killing one boy; Walter Collins and was sentenced to life in prison. Gordon was tried and convicted on 3 counts for murdering Louis & Nelson Winslow & an unidentified Latino boy. He was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930. Typed note on negative: ..left to right, Mrs. Northcott, Deputy sheriffs Dave Crouchorn and William Bright of Los Angeles county, and Mrs. Clem Sweeters, wife of Riverside, Cal., county sheriff, who accompanied prisoner to San Quentin. --GMM-tb---12/31/28. Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Sara Louise Murder Case. Mother of Gordon Scott
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3719_G3408 ark:/21198/zz0002pjvs
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Accomplices Arrivals & departures--American--California Northcott, Sarah Louisa Cawthorpe, 1870-1944
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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