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Louisa Northcott in train car on her way to San Quentin penitentiary to serve a life sentence, 1929

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Title: Louisa Northcott in train car on her way to San Quentin penitentiary to serve a life sentence, 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) 825-3881
Description: 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 states "..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."
Type: Image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b3719_G3408
ark:/21198/zz0002pjvs
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Crime
Arrivals & departures--American--California
People
Accomplices
Northcott, Sarah Louisa Cawthorpe, 1870-1944
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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