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Title: Investigators during Gordon Northcott murder case, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1929]
1929
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.
Investigators including Deputy Jack Brown (second from right) standing near file cabinet.
Northcott was later tried and convicted for the serial murders of young boys in the riverside county area. His mother, Sarah Louisa Northcott, was also imprisoned for assisting him.
Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates [handwritten:] Box 26
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6684
ark:/21198/zz002cwz3c
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Serial murders--California--Riverside County
Police--California--Riverside County
Brown, Jack
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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