Image / Murder suspect Madalynne Obenchain, Los Angeles, 1921-1924

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Title: Murder suspect Madalynne Obenchain, Los Angeles, 1921-1924
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1921 and 1924]
1921/1924
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.
Obenchain, photographed from the shoulders up, wears a black dress with a white collar and a pearl necklace.
Madalynne Obenchain was tried and acquitted for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy.
A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Woman Spent Many Months a Prisoner," Los Angeles Times, 13 Jun 1924: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Obenchain, Madeline [handwritten:] Obenchain, Madalynne
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6823
ark:/21198/zz002cx3wn
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Murder--Investigation--California, Southern
Obenchain, Madalynne b. 1893
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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