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Title
Albert Dyer on trial for the murder of three Inglewood girls, Los Angeles, August 1937
Date Created and/or Issued
August 1937
1937-08
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.
Albert Dyer, a 32 year old W.P.A crossing guard who confessed to the murders of three Inglewood girls, at his trial. 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: Albert Dyer
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dyer, Albert
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz0025gcvp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Girls--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Strangling--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Disaster
Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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