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. Photograph was published in the article: "Wife Murder Clew Shown," Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 1935: A2. John H. Happel was arrested for the murder of his wife, Rose Marie Happel. The case received attention due to Happel hiding his wife's body in a trunk. He eventually confessed to the murder. Handwritten on negative: John H. Happel Text on negative sleeve: Happel, John H. Murder Case Text from newspaper caption: Staring straight ahead and showing no emotion, John H. Happel yesterday sat in court and heard once more from his purported confession the details of how he killed Rosabella Happel, his wife, with an iron bar because she "nagged" him. He was ordered held to the Superior Court for trial on a murder charge.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5146 ark:/21198/zz002cv42t
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Homicides--California--Los Angeles Happel, John H., b. 1879
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