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Gordon Northcott, accused of murdering four young men, en route to San Quentin, Los Angeles, 1929

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Title: Gordon Northcott, accused of murdering four young men, en route to San Quentin, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa February, 1929]
1929-02
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Gordon Stewart Northcott makes the last leg of his journey escorted by Riverside sheriffs as he travels to San Quentin. The 22-year-old Wineville boy butcher is on death row.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Doomed Youth Relates Plans," Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb 1929: A2.
A grinning Northcott waves from the window of his train with C.F. Rayburn sitting grimly across from him.
Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates (Box 27) 1
Handwritten on negative: p + a
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6695
ark:/21198/zz002cwzg2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Arrivals & departures--American--California
Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles
Rayburn, Carl Francis, 1892-1966
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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