Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. From left to right, Deputy Sheriff C. F. Rayburn, Gordon S. Northcott and Deputy Sheriff Jack Brown sit in a row aboard a train bound for San Quentin. The 2 deputies are escorting Northcott to prison. Gordon Northcott leans forward in his seat and smiles to the camera. To the left of Northcott, C. F. Rayburn wears an uneasy look on his face. Jack Brown sits on the arm of the train car's seat at right. He holds a cigarette in one hand and looks to camera. Gordon S. Northcott was convicted of murdering 3 young boys in Riverside County. He was executed by hanging in 1930. A similar photograph of Gordon Northcott appears with the article, "Northcott En Route to San Quentin and Gallows Death April 15: DOOMED YOUTH RELATES PLANS He Outlines Future Fight to Cheat Noose Smile Fades as Judge Sets Date of Hanging Prisoner Closely Guarded on Trip North," Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb 1929: A2 Handwritten on negative: P + A Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates [handwritten:] Box 27 1
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6693 ark:/21198/zz002cwzd1
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Railroad passenger cars--American--California--Riverside Prisoners Arrivals & departures--American--California Police--California--Riverside County Serial murderers--California--Riverside Brown, Jack Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930 Rayburn, Carl Francis, 1892-1966
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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