Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Bizarrely decorated clock belonging to Fred Stettler, a Swiss chauffeur accused of the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barbour. Stettler showed police $25 in bills hidden in the clock and confessed to having stolen the money from the Barbours after murdering the couple with a heavy object and setting the bodies on fire Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Fred Stettler's clock 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
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz0025fr0m
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Clocks and watches--California--Los Angeles Crime Homicides--California--Los Angeles Arts Stettler, Gottfried, b. 1911
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