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 Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 39-year-old Nellie Madison, on suspicion of fatally shooting husband Eric D. Madison in their Burbank apartment, was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to be hanged. She was the first woman to be sentenced to death in the state of California. Madison wears a black dress in all three photographs and has a white coat over her dress in the last two. Her former husband William J. F. Brown, in glasses, sits beside her in all three photographs. A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Doom Heard By Widow," Los Angeles Times, 23 Jun 1934: 1. Text from negative sleeve: Madison, Nellie Murder Case
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6206 ark:/21198/zz002cwcmx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles Madison, Nellie May, 1895-1953 Brown, William J.F., b. ca. 1891
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