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Title: Courtroom scene during Gordon Stewart Northcott's murder trial, Riverside, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: [between January 1, 1929-February 7, 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) 825-3879
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 "I PLEADE NOT GUILTY." ..."Left to right; District Attorney Buron Fitts; front row standing: Dep. Dist. Atty. Clifford Thoms; Norbert Savay, chief defense counsel; Northcott, and A.H. DeTremaudan, defense attorney."
Type: Image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b3719_G3413
ark:/21198/zz0002pjxt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Serial murderers--California--Riverside
Judicial proceedings--California--Riverside
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Thoms, Clifford, 1896-1976
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Savay, Norbert, 1873-1950
DeTremaudan, A. H
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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