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Title
Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale Police Dept. and Paul A. Wright during an investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife and best friend, Los Angeles, November 1937
Date Created and/or Issued
November 1937
1937-11
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.
Captain Walter E. Hegi of the Glendale police dept. (left) with airline official Paul A. Wright early on in the investigation of the double murder of Wright's wife Evelyn and best friend, John Kimmel. A crime to which Wright had confessed. Wright testified that he shot his wife and best friend after finding them in an embrace. In the trial that followed, called the "White Flame" trial by the press, Wright eventually escaped the death pentalty and a prison sentence on an insanity plea, thanks to his lawyer Jerry Giesler
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Wright, Paul A.; Geisler, Jerry, Att.; Hegi, W. Capt.; Nance, Frank, Coroner
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: L-R Capt. W. Hegi & Paul A. Wright
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
ark:/21198/zz0025gm9s
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
People
Investigation--California--Los Angeles
Crimes of passion--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Hegi, Walter E., 1901-1968
Wright, Paul A
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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