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Title
Policewoman Jean Peirce with Detective Lt. Leroy Sanderson, Los Angeles, circa December 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
[December, 1935?]
1935-10/1935-12
Publication Information
Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information
US
Description
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.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz00254x00
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
People
Firearms
Police--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Peirce, Jean
Sanderson, Leroy E
Yancey, Owen D
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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