Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Swiss chauffeur Fred Stettler, accused of the arson murders of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barbour, showing Capt. Bert Wallis of the police homicide (right) squad $34 in silver hidden in a potato sack at Stettler's home. Stettler confessed to stealing the money from the Barbours after murdering them with a heavy object and setting a timing device which would set the bodies on fireNote: text on the nitrate sleeves and handwritten on the negative likely transcribed "Bert Wallis" incorrectly as "Bert Wallace" Text from original nitrate sleeve: Stettler, Fred; Wallace, Bert; Ledbetter, Miles; Stettler's clock Text from archival nitrate sleeve: Stettler, Fred; Wallace, Bert; Ledbetter, Miles; Stettler's clock Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Bert Wallace, Fred Stettler
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz0025fqwk
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Subject
Investigation People Crime Homicides--California--Los Angeles Legal Potatoes Stettler, Gottfried, b. 1911 Wallis, Bert, 1880-1959
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