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Man inspects the location where the body of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin was found, Newhall, 1924

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Title: Man inspects the location where the body of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin was found, Newhall, 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: April 1924
1924-04
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.
Margaret Willis and Bert C. Webster tossed the body of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin over this railing a short distance south of the Newhall tunnel after Willis killed him and stuffed his body into a trunk.
Similar photograph appears with the headline, "Where Trunk Was Cast Into Ditch by Slayer and Man Held in Case," Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr 1924: 2.
A man looks over the railing at the edge of the road towards the suitcase that lies partially obscured by the grass. Farther up the road an automobile is parked, and another person can be seen partially out of the vehicle.
Text from negative sleeve: WILLIS, MARGARET MURDER CASE
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4491
ark:/21198/zz002cq971
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Reeds (Plants)--California--Newhall
Criminal investigations--California--Newhall
Railings--California--Newhall
Mountains--California
Automobiles--American--California--Newhall
Telephone lines--California--Newhall
Railroad tracks--California--Newhall
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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