Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Members of the Albert Dyer murder trial jury standing outside with a police officer. (left to right) Unknown police officer, Beatrice Hard, unknown, Harold Harby, Shirley Angranoff, James D. Kelly, Jackson Collins, Grace A. Calvert, Ben D. Fulton, Charles M. Truax, Dorothy Deel, Butler E. Shaw, and George Ritchie. (Winifred W. Howard is missing). The jury was 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 Jury
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b&w nitrate negative
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ark:/21198/zz0025gdfz
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Subject
Girls--California--Los Angeles Juries--California--Los Angeles Strangling--California--Los Angeles Police--California--Los Angeles Homicides--California--Los Angeles Legal Truax, Charles M., 1908-1998 Harby, Harold, 1894-1978 Angranoff, Shirley Fulton, Ben D., 1870-1965 Deel, Dorothy, 1911-1999 Shaw, Butler E Calvert, Grace A Kelly, James D Dyer, Albert, 1905-1938 Collins, Jackson, 1881-1947 Ritchie, George Hard, Beatrice
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