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Title: Harold "Sonny" Willis and confessed murderer Margaret Willis, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: 1924
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Sonny Willis, center, sits beside his mother, Margaret Willis, right. Two unidentified men are beside them, one sitting and one standing behind Sonny.
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.
Handwritten on negative: Mrs. M. Willis Sonny Willis
Text from negative sleeve: Willis, Margaret Murder Case
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4494
ark:/21198/zz002cq9bk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Willis, Harold, b. 1912 or 13
Willis, Margaret
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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