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Three suspects in the robbery and murder of Amanda E. Watson are questioned by police, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Three suspects in the robbery and murder of Amanda E. Watson are questioned by police, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: February 9, 1935
1935-02-09
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.
Three suspects in the robbery and murder of Amanda E. Watson are questioned by police. Ultimately only Leslie Fesperman was convicted of the crime.
This photograph appears with the article, "Death Plot Confessed; Death Mystery Solution Near; Four arrested in Widow Killing." Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 1935: 10.
Text from negative sleeve: Watson, Amanda E. Murder Case, 1935
Text from newspaper caption: The brutal slaying of Mrs. Amanda E. Watson is believed solved with the arrest of Leslie Fesperman. In this picture, left to right, Detective Lieutenants Jones and Hurst (standing) and Capt. Wallis (seated) are questioning Claude Lane, Fesperman and George Mathias, also a suspect. Lane is being held as a material witness.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4280
ark:/21198/zz002cq1z1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Mathias, George
Wallis, Bert, 1880-1959
Lane, Claude
Fesperman, Leslie, 1900-1959
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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