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Title: Jury investigates site of Helen Bendowski’s murder, 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 Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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.
A group of men and women, some of them officers, arrive at Harold Wolcott’s residence—the site of Helen Bendowski’s murder. The tower of Pasadena City Hall can be seen in the background.
Text from negative sleeve: Wolcott, Harold Murder Case 1933
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4578
ark:/21198/zz002cqd7g
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Bendowski, Helen F., 1903-1933
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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