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. This photograph appears with the article, "Spurned Suitor's Love for Slain Girl Pledged by Tender Notes on Playing Cards: Ardent Love Exhibit in Girl-Slaying," Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 1934: A2. Charles Johnston in prison for the murder of his fiancé Dorothy Smith. Text from negative sleeve: Johnston, Charles Murder Case 1934 Handwritten on negative sleeve: Charles Johnston Text from newspaper caption: From these burning love notes written on the ace, deuce, and trey of hearts, Sheriff's officers yesterday learned the motives in the slaying of Dorothy Smith, 19 year-old Monrovia girl who pictured below. Charles Johnston, 22, in the author of the notes and he is in the County Jail, held without bail for the killing. Johnston is shown below.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5250 ark:/21198/zz002cv7n2
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Homicides--California--Los Angeles Johnston, Charles, b. 1911 or 12
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