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Title: Ship where Captain Walter Wanderwell's body was found, Long Beach, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: December 1932
1932-12
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 distant shot of the large white ship with the words INTERNATIONAL POLICE R.E.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Two States Hunt Ex-Mutineer as Suspect Seen Near Wanderwell Ship After Murder," Los Angeles Times, 07 Dec 1932: A2.
Text from newspaper caption: Spot Where Soldier of Fortune Fell Dead, the Former Rum Ship Carma and Passengers on Ship Photographed Left-Lieut. George Webb of Long Beach police, pointing to seat where Wanderwell fell after being shot. Center-The Carma, ship on which the killing took place. Right-Passengers on ship, all of whom were questioned. Above, top row, left to right-Eugenia Nobel, Aline Allen, Florence Wegel, Marion Smith and Mary Parks. Bottom row, Left to right-Ruth Loucks, Mary L. Smith and Mrs. Cuthbert Wells. Below, top row, left to right-E. W. Owen, Capt. Jim Farris, Jack Craig, Cuthbert Wells, Edward Montague. Bottom row, left to right-Forrest Plummer, Edmund Zeranoki.
Text from negative sleeve: WANDERWELL, WALTER MURDER CASE 1933
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4457
ark:/21198/zz002cq82z
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Sailing ships--American--California--Long Beach
Criminal investigations--California--Long Beach
Bodies of water--California--Long Beach
Pieszynski, Walter Wanderwell, 1896 or 96-1932
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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