Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the article, "Wife Death Quiz Opens," Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct 1934: A2. Gray Everett lies back in a wheelchair with a visor covering his eyes. His mother sits beside him with her hand on his chest, and his hand on top of her own. Mr. McNeer is accused of shooting his wife and then turning the gun on himself, but maintains that the reverse happened and his wife's death was her own attempted murder-suicide. The bullet is still lodged in his brain. Handwritten on negative: Mrs Lola McNeer Gray Everett McNeer Text from negative sleeve: MCNEER, GRAY EVERETT MURDER CASE, 1934 Text from newspaper caption: Gray Everett McNeer, with a bullet in his brain, who went on trial yesterday on a charge of wife murder. His mother, Mrs. Lola McNeer, is pictured with him.
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_6793 ark:/21198/zz002cx2vn
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Sons--American--California--Los Angeles Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Mothers--California--Los Angeles Wheelchairs McNeer, Gray Everett, 1902 or 03-1964 McNeer, Lola, 1869-1936
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