Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, May 28, 1936, James Guilty in Girl Case, Suspect Smiles at Verdict, Jury Convicts Barber on All Three Counts of Morals Offenses. … James … sat stolid and emotionless as a jury decreed him guilty of three separate morals offenses involving his 21-year-old niece. … facing the still more serious charge of murdering his wife last August by rattlesnake venom and drowning … Robert S. James, hand to face, and attorney Samuel Silverman, both in suits and ties, seated at table, with 4 other men visible foreground and background Robert S. James' real name was Major Raymond Lisenba. He was known as Robert S. James during his marriage to Mary Emma Busch James and at the time of her death in 1935, and, after her murder by rattlesnake bite and drowning, as "Rattlesnake James." Handwritten at edge of negative: Robert S. James Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1738, NITRATE, Aug. 22, 1935, 3 negs. Robert S. James, James inquest, 8/15/35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0065 0065 ark:/21198/zz002d9883
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Legal Crime People Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Silverman, Samuel Joseph, 1887-1957 James, Robert S., 1895-1942
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