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Accused murderer Vera Verrill at the coroner's inquest into the death of her mother-in-law, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Accused murderer Vera Verrill at the coroner's inquest into the death of her mother-in-law, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: January 18, 1934
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.
This photograph (cropped) appears with the article, "Murder of Kin Laid to Woman: Daughter-in-law Accused by Inquest Jury; Witness Tells of Killing in Claremont Home; Prisoner Maintains She Has No Knowledge of Shot," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 1934: A5.
Mrs. Vera Verrill sits next to Dep. Sheriff Belle DeWolfe during the coroner's inquest into the death of Verrill's mother-in-law Ethel Verrill. Vera Verrill is accused of fatally shooting her mother-in-law during a domestic dispute.
Text from negative sleeve: Verrill, Vera M. Mrs.Murder Case, 1934
Handwritten on negative: Dep. Sheriff de Wolfe, Vera Verrill
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4357
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Homicides--California--Claremont
Verrill, Vera M., b. 1891 or 92
DeWolfe, Belle F. Willets, 1868-1943
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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