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Title
Judge Charles Fricke watches as Joseph Ryan and George Stahlman confer with Nellie May Madison on the stand, Los Angeles County, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued
June 1934
1934-06
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.
Mrs. Madison denies shooting husband Eric Madison and speculates that the man who was buried at his funeral was not him, and also denies that the corpse shown to her in photographs of her husband are not of his body.
Photograph appears with the article, "Mrs. Madison on Stand Denies Killing Husband," Los Angeles Times, 15 June 1934: A1.
Judge Fricke looks on as Ryan and Stahlman show a stack of papers to Mrs. Madison.
Text from negative sleeve: Candid Camera View of Courtroom When Mrs. Madison Took Stand Left to right-Defense Counsel Joseph Ryan, Dep. Dist.-Atty. Stahlman, Mrs. Nellie Madison and Superior Judge Fricke.
Text from negative sleeve: MADISON, NELLIE MURDER CASE
Handwritten on negative: Joe Ryan George Stahlman Nellie Madison Judge Fricke
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6202
ark:/21198/zz002cwcgv
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Widows
Judges--California--Los Angeles County
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles County
Blackboards
Homicides--California--Los Angeles County
Ryan, Joseph, 1901-1969
Fricke, Charles W., 1882-1958
Stahlman, George
Madison, Nellie May, 1895-1953
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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