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Title: Jury investigates site of murder on Harold Wolcott’s roof, 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.
Men and women gather on the roof of Harold Wolcott’s apartment, where Helen Bendowski was fatally shot. A camera tripod and what appears to be a pigeon coop are in the foreground.
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.
Text from negative sleeve: Wolcott, Harold Murder Case 1933
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4579
ark:/21198/zz002cqd80
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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