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Description
Sheriffs digging in rocky terrain with onlookers surrounding them during search for James P. Watson's murder victim in Sugarloaf Canyon. Watson had married several women, 7 of which he confessed to killing. He was sentenced to life for murder. Reported in "IN MODERN BLUEBEARD'S CLOSET.: Here are the Wives of James P. Watson, Seven He is Known to Have Murdered, Three He Probably Slew and Twelve Who Escaped with Their Lives. In the Case of the Monster Who is to be Sentenced Here Tomorrow. STORY OF THE MODERN BLUEBEARD; Watson, Perhaps Part Negro, Betrays Evidences of Revolting Moral Perversion in the Manner of His Many Murders of Women Whom He Married," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1920: II1. Text from negative sleeve: Watson, J.P. (Bluebeard).
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3736_G5391 ark:/21198/zz0002pqgh
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Sheriffs--California--Los Angeles County Homicides--California--Los Angeles County Watson, James P., d. 1939
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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