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Jack "Diamondfield" Davis, a Nevada prospector who struck it rich after being pardoned for murder, Los Angeles, 1930s

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Title: Jack "Diamondfield" Davis, a Nevada prospector who struck it rich after being pardoned for murder, Los Angeles, 1930s
Date Created and/or Issued: [1930s?]
1930/1939
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.
Jack "Diamondfield" Davis, a Nevada prospector who stuck it rich after being pardoned for an Idaho murder in 1902. When he was working for a cattle company, Diamondfield was accused of the murder of two sheepherders. He was sentenced to hang, but his execution date was postponed and then changed to life inprisonment after two other men confessed to the crime. Diamondfield was pardoned by Idaho Governor Frank W. Hunt in December of 1902.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: [Jack (Diamondfield) Davis]
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Davis, Jack (Diamondfield [sic] ) ; Wagner, Ralph
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0027zts1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Economy
Miners--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Davis, Jackson Lee, 1870?-1949
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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