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Nellie May Madison admits to shooting her husband in self-defense, Los Angeles County, 1935

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Title: Nellie May Madison admits to shooting her husband in self-defense, Los Angeles County, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: June 1935
1935-06
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.
Nellie has admitted that she shot husband Eric Madison out of self defense after he tried to attack her with a knife.
Nellie rests her chin on the knuckles of her hand.
Photograph appears with the article, "Iron Woman Confesses," Los Angeles times, 21 June 1935: 1.
Text from negative sleeve: MADISON, NELLIE MURDER CASE
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Nellie Madison
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Nellie Madison, under sentence to be hanged for the killing of her husband, which she denied throughout her trial, yesterday admitted she shot in self-defense.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6196
ark:/21198/zz002cwc8r
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Widows
Portrait photographs
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles County
Homicides--California--Los Angeles County
Madison, Nellie May, 1895-1953
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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