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Raymond E. Johnson, confessed murderer of young dancer Midi Takaoko, sits in court, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Raymond E. Johnson, confessed murderer of young dancer Midi Takaoko, sits in court, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: August 1936
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.
Raymond E. Johnson, confessed murderer of young dancer Midi Takaoko, sits in court. Johnson became jealous after Takaoko began seeing another man. After stabbing her new lover, William J. Bachand, with an ice pick, Johnson came to Takaoko's home and cut her throat with a butcher knife.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Johnson, Raymond E.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 13501
uclamss_1387_13501-05
ark:/21198/zz0027xb82
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Crime
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Johnson, Raymond E., 1897
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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