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. Mrs. Willis wears a coat over a floral dress. She also wears a large hat that covers all of her hair and is decorated with fabric roses. The thin chain of her pince-nez dangles to her chest. Margaret Willis confessed to the police that she fatally shot Dr. Benjamin Baldwin in self defense. To keep the murder from her son she hid the body of Dr. Baldwin in a trunk, and together she and Bert C. Webster tossed the suitcase over an embankment. Photograph appears with the article, "Doctor Slain By Widow, Body Hidden in Trunk," Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr 1924: 1. Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Willis Text from newspaper caption: Firer of Fatal shot and Victim of Bullet Mrs. Margaret Willis, confessed slayer of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin, shown at right is pictured as she looked after telling of the two-day vigil in her apartment with the dead man's body. Text from negative sleeve: WILLIS, HENRY JUDGR, 1928
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4466 ark:/21198/zz002cq8cm
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles Confessions Willis, Margaret
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