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Deputy Sheriff Mary Talbot sits with Betty Flay Hardaker at trial, Los Angeles, 1940

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Title: Deputy Sheriff Mary Talbot sits with Betty Flay Hardaker at trial, Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created and/or Issued: February 24, 1940
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.
Deputy Sheriff Mary Talbot sits with Betty Hardaker in the courtroom during an inquest. Mrs. Hardaker was convicted of murdering her 5 year old daughter, Geraldine Hardaker, in a Montebello park washroom. The jury convicted her of committing the crime while of unsound mind.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Hardaker, Betty - Mrs.; Karnes, Samuel - Mr.; Bailey, Bess - Dep. Sheriff; Hardaker, Charles; Tait, Lorraine; Hosking, Madge.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Deputy Sheriff Mary Talbot, Betty Hardaker.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1387_22815-21
22815
ark:/21198/zz0027zxrz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Crime
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Legal
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Hardaker, Betty Flay
Talbot, Mary
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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