Image / Murder suspect Nellie Madison, Los Angeles, ca. 1934

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Title: Murder suspect Nellie Madison, Los Angeles, ca. 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa March, 1934]
1934-03
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Madison sits in a chair, probably at a police station, looking downtrodden. She wears a garment over her dress that was common among women inmates at the time.
39-year-old Nellie Madison, on suspicion of fatally shooting husband Eric D. Madison in their Burbank apartment, was formally arraigned on March 29, 1934.
Text from negative sleeve: Madison, Nellie Murder Case
Handwritten on negative: Nellie Madison
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6195
ark:/21198/zz002cwc77
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Women--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Madison, Nellie May, 1895-1953
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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