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. Otto Krueger, a butcher from San Francisco, was arrested on suspicion of murder for 2 elderly women in San Francisco and 1 elderly woman in San Jose. He was arrested in Los Angeles after disembarking from a passenger ship. Otto Krueger sits sideways in a chair by a door. He wears a hat and three piece suit. His right arm rests on the back of the chair. He is facing left, smiling. A different photograph of Otto Krueger taken on the same occasion appears in "Triple Killing Suspect Taken: Butcher Arrested When He Steps From Steamer," Los Angeles Times, 15 Jun 1926: A2. Text on negative sleeve: Krueger, Otto [handwritten:] baseball? (not actor--doesn't look same) X Handwritten on negative: Otto Krueger Otto Kr[written over]er
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5404 ark:/21198/zz002cvdz4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Suspects (Criminal investigation)--California--San Francisco Murder--Investigation--California--Los Angeles Butchers--California--San Francisco Krueger, Otto (Butcher)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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