Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the headline, "Paradoxical Situations Complicate Task of Investigators in Butcher Farm Quest," Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep 1928: A3. A chicken coop highlighted against a flat and grassy area, the coop is shown to be a long and narrow building with several open doors leading to wired areas of grass and dirt. Officers have found bones and a bloody ax on the site where Gordon Northcott is thought to have murdered several boys. A Texas report states that two of the alleged victims are alive and safe in the state. Text from negative sleeve: Northcott, Gordon murder case nitrates (Box 27) 3 Text from newspaper caption: [P. & A. and Times photos] Riverside County "Death Ranch" Combed for Victims Gordon Stewart Northcott (full-length figure at right) and three boys, Walter Collins and Louis and Nelson Winslow, who have been mentioned in the case, are shown in upper panel. Middle photo shows Sheriff Sweeters of Riverside county (right) and Deputy Sheriff Quinn examining blood-stained ax to which human hair was clinging, found on the Northcott ranch. Below is the chicken coop cited in the story of Sanford Clark.
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