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Bert C. Webster visits the location of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin's body with police, Newhall, 1924

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Title: Bert C. Webster visits the location of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin's body with police, Newhall, 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: April 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 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.
Bert Webster stands with a group of men, the one closest to the camera most likely identifiable as Detective Longuevan.
Text from negative sleeve: WILLIS, MARGARET MURDER CASE
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4495
ark:/21198/zz002cq9c3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Police--California--Newhall
Criminal investigations--California--Newhall
Webster, Bert C
Longuevan, Dwight West, 1890-1959
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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