Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Front row left to right: Mrs. Dorothy Deel, Jackson Collins, Mrs. Grace A. Calvert, Harold Harby, George Ritchie, and Ben Fulton. Back row left to right: Mrs. Winifred W. Howard, Mrs. Beatrice Hard, Charles M. Truax, Mrs. Shirley Angranoff, Mrs. Ruth Roth (later replaced by Butler E. Shaw), and James D. Kelly. The original jury for 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. 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 Text from original nitrate sleeve: Dyer, Albert - Jury; Hard?[sic], Beatrice - Mrs. and other members of trial jury; "Bull pen door" Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Albert Dyer Trial Jury
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
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Subject
Girls--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Juries--California--Los Angeles Strangling--California--Los Angeles Homicides--California--Los Angeles Legal Truax, Charles M., 1908-1998 Howard, Winifred Woodrow, 1886-1949 Harby, Harold, 1894-1978 Angranoff, Shirley Ritchie, George Deel, Dorothy, 1911-1999 Calvert, Grace A Kelly, James D Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938 Collins, Jackson, 1881-1947 Roth, Ruth Fulton, Ben D., 1870-1965 Hard, Beatrice
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