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Title
Reward poster for Maude Moore and Martin Hunter, Knoxville, Tenn., 1920
Date Created and/or Issued
1920
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) 825-2162
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph of reward poster, held by two fingers visible at bottom, with $500 Reward prominent above one photograph of Maude Moore and two photographs of Marvin Hunter, wanted for the 1919 murder of LeRoy D. Harth
Text reads, in part: $500 Reward. Knoxville, Tenn., August 4, 1920. A reward of $500 has been offered for the arrest of MAUDE MOORE, formerly of Knoxville, Tenn., now under indictment in the criminal court of Knox County, Tenn., charged with murder in the first degree, for killing LeRoy D. Harth, a Knoxville automobile dealer, September 8th, 1919, on a highway in said County, for the alleged purpose of robbery, the killing occurring in the night time. ... In connection with the same crime, one Martin Hunter was also indicted as an accessory after the fact. ... a reward of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for the arrest of said Martin Hunter. ... Ed. M. Haynes, Chief of Police, Knoxville, Tennessee
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: [Typewritten:] Sidow, Fay Mrs., Murder case, 1923 [Handwritten:] Sudow
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3161
3161
ark:/21198/zz002cn1ng
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Crime
Media
Moore, Maude, b. ca. 1892
Hunter, Martin, b. ca. 1895
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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