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. Police search for fingerprints in the apartment of murder victim Amanda E. Watson. She was found bound, gaged and her jewelry was missing. This photograph appears with the article, "Woman Slain and Home Ransacked by Intruder; Elderly Victim, Last Seen on Sunday, Strangled; Apartment Left Like Shambles." Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 1935: A2. Text from negative sleeve: Watson, Amanda E. Murder Case, 1935 Handwritten on negative: Amanda E. Watson [mur]rder Text from newspaper caption: Detective Lieutenants Brown and Hurst and W. N. Hildebrand, police fingerprint expert, left to right, examining apartment of Mrs. Amanda E. Watson for clews to her slayer.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4282 ark:/21198/zz002cq21j
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Homicides--California--Los Angeles Watson, Amanda E., 1871-1935
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