Image / Police investigate axe used in Northcott murder case, Riverside County, circa 1928

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Title: Police investigate axe used in Northcott murder case, Riverside County, circa 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1928]
1928
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.
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.
Picture of two police investigators examining axe used in Northcott murders. There is also an upside down picture of Sarah Louia Northcott above.
Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates [handwritten:] Box 26
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6685
ark:/21198/zz002cwz4w
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Serial murders--California--Riverside County
Police--California--Riverside County
Crime scene searches--California--Riverside County
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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