Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Dt. Lt. Sanderson talking with Policewoman Peirce. Photo related to Peirce’s accidental shooting of Officer Yancey in October 1935. Peirce was put on trial for manslaughter in December 1935 and eventually acquitted. Handwritten annotation from negative: Mrs. Jean Peirce & Leroy Sanderson, 11933 Text from original nitrate sleeve: Peirce, Jean, Mrs.; Sanderson, Leroy E., Det. Lieut.
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b&w nitrate negative
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People Firearms Police--California--Los Angeles Homicides--California--Los Angeles Legal Peirce, Jean Sanderson, Leroy E Yancey, Owen D
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