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Charles H. Hope in court with public defender William H. Sanson for his joint murder trial with Robert S. James, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Charles H. Hope in court with public defender William H. Sanson for his joint murder trial with Robert S. James, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa May 7, 1936]
1936-05-07
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.
Ex-sailor Charles H. Hope in court with public defender William H. Sanson for his joint trial with Robert S. James. Hope aided James in the murder of Mary Emma James, by supplying deadly rattlesnakes for James and then helping him carry his wife's body outside and into a fish pool. From left to right, William H. Sanson, Charles H. Hope.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Hope, Charles; Sanson, William, Att.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Sanson and Hope
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz002887v9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Legal
Sanson, William H
Hope, Charles H., 1899-1966
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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