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Title
Accused murderer Fred Stettler showing Capt. Bert Wallis and Det. Lt. Miles Ledbetter money Stettler had stolen and hidden in a potato sack at his home
Date Created and/or Issued
February 21, 1936
1936-02-21
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.
Swiss chauffeur Fred Stettler, accused of the arson murders of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barbour, showing Det. Lt. Miles Ledbetter (left) and Capt. Bert Wallis of the police homicide squad (center) $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: Miles Ledbetter - Bert Wallace - Fred Stettler
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz0025fqx3
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Investigation
Crime
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Potatoes
Ledbetter, Miles, 1893-1972
Stettler, Gottfried, b. 1911
Wallis, Bert, 1880-1959
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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