Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. In early June, 1934, police officers discovered the bodies of Carrie L. Payne, 45, and Robert Payne, 15, at their Westwood home. They had been brutally murdered by Louis R. Payne, their respective son and brother, in late May. Payne was arrested several days after he committed the crime and after confessing at a Huntington Beach police station. In 1935, he was brought back to trial to plead insanity for his crimes. A similar photograph likely taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Payne Youth Held Insane," Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan 1935: A1. Handwritten on negative: Louis Payne + Lucius Payne Text from negative sleeve: Payne, Louis R.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7206 ark:/21198/zz002cxk3h
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles Payne, Lucius Payne, Louis Rude
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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