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Mariposa County Judge W.A. Scott with section of tree grown around revolver, Los Angeles or Pasadena, 1931

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Title: Mariposa County Judge W.A. Scott with section of tree grown around revolver, Los Angeles or Pasadena, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article "Ghost Gang Relic Found: Forgotten Revolver Grows in Tree," November 16, 1931, describing how bandit Charley Jack simulated a gang of attackers along the Mammoth Trail by hiding guns and coats in tree branches; the son of an attack victim later discovered an abandoned gun grown into a tree
Los Angeles and Pasadena are both mentioned in the Los Angeles Times article
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Scott, W. A., Judge, 1931
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 2847
uclamss_1429_2847
ark:/21198/zz002ckpxw
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Legal
Handguns
People
Scott, William A., b. 1863 or 4
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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