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Title: Harold Wolcott and attorney Archie Orme at a hearing, Pasadena, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: [August-October, 1933]
1933-08/1933-10
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.
Wolcott, center, sits with his with his head resting on his hand. One of his attorneys, Archie Orme, sits beside him, leaned forward over a legal pad.
Harold E. Wolcott was charged with the murder of his lover Helen Bendowski in August, 1933. She was found on the penthouse roof above Wolcott’s flower shop in Pasadena, dead from a bullet through her chest.
Handwritten on negative: Harold Wolcott
Text from negative sleeve: Wolcott, Harold Murder Case 1933
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4576
ark:/21198/zz002cqd5f
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Pasadena
Lawyers--California--Pasadena
Orme, Archie, 1891-1955
Wolcott, Harold Ernest, b. 1900
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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