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Gray E. McNeer, Lola McNeer, S. S. Hahn and W. O. Graf around the time of McNeer's trial, Los Angeles, circa 1934

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Title: Gray E. McNeer, Lola McNeer, S. S. Hahn and W. O. Graf around the time of McNeer's trial, Los Angeles, circa 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1934]
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.
McNeer reclines in his wheelchair resting an arm against his mother. His attorney Hahn signs a piece of paper that Mrs. McNeer holds while W.O. Graf watches.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Wife Death Trial Faced By M' Neer," Los Angeles Times, 07 Aug 1934: A2.
33-year-old Gray E. McNeer is brought to court on charges of fatally shooting his wife, Beatrice Helene McNeer. Gray McNeer is brought into Municipal Judge Galbreth's court in a wheelchair with a bandaged face from a gunshot wound that he ascertains his wife gave him before she turned the gun on herself.
Text from negative sleeve: MCNEER, GRAY EVERETT MURDER CASE, 1934
Handwritten on negative: S. S. Hahn W. O Graf Gray Everett McNeer Mrs Lola McNeer
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6796
ark:/21198/zz002cx2z6
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Sons--American--California--Los Angeles
Bandages
Wheelchairs
Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
McNeer, Lola, 1869-1936
Graf, W.O
Hahn, S. S. (Samuel S.), 1889-1957
McNeer, Gray Everett, 1902 or 03-1964
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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