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Charles H. Hope sitting outside of court for his joint murder trial with Robert S. James, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Charles H. Hope sitting outside of court 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 sitting in a stairwell outside of court 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.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Charles Hope
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Hope, Charles; Sanson, William, Att.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz002887xb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Hope, Charles H., 1899-1966
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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