Image / Confessed murderer Koji Hatamoto in prison awaiting trial, Los Angeles, 1932

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Title: Confessed murderer Koji Hatamoto in prison awaiting trial, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: August 31, 1932
1932-08-31
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.
Photograph published with article, "Japanese Sentenced to Die by Noose for Murder of Elopement Partner's Child: Court Imposes Death Penalty," Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 1932: A2.
Photograph depicts Koji Hatamoto, confessed murderer in prison during his trial. Sign in the background reads, "Prisoners No Smoking"
Text on negative sleeve: Hatomoto [sic], Koji murder case
Text from newspaper caption: Koji Hatamoto and Ayako Kanda
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5174
ark:/21198/zz002cv51s
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Hatamoto, Koji, 1894 or 97-1933
Kanda, Ayako, b. 1901 or 02
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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