Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Crowd gathered outside the trial of Albert Dyer, a 32 year old W.P.A crossing guard who confessed to the murders of three Inglewood girls. Dyer admitted to luring the girls; Madeline Everett (9), Melba Everett (7), and Jeanette Stephens (8) into the woods on the pretense of helping them catch rabbits and then strangled them in succession. Extra deputy sheriffs were on guard outside the trial to control the crowds of angry and thrill-seeking people they expected would come to witness the trial of this heinous crime. Dyer was sentenced to death after the jury's two day debate. On September 16, 1938 at San Quentin Prison, Dyer was one of the last people to be hung in the state of California Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Crowd at Dyer trial Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dyer, Albert
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Girls--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Crime Strangling--California--Los Angeles Homicides--California--Los Angeles Legal Crowds--California--Los Angeles Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938
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