Image / Donna Prow, witness in the Monahan murder trial, Los Angeles, 1953

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Title: Donna Prow, witness in the Monahan murder trial, Los Angeles, 1953
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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) 825-2707
Description: Photo appears with article "Monahan case alibi told," Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 1953: a.
Barbara Graham, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins were convicted of the murder of Mabel Monahan in 1953, during a robbery attempt in her home, and were executed two years later.
Text from newspaper caption: GIVES TIP --- Donna Prow, who was prisoner in County Jail, provided police with information that Barbara Graham, Monahan murder case defendant, was seeking aid in framing alibi for night of Burbank slaying.
Type: Image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: C1429_b173_80492-14_frame_1
ark:/21198/zz00256cph
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Prow, Donna
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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