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Robert S. James, suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, walking in hallway, Los Angles, 1935 or 1936

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Title: Robert S. James, suspect in Mary Emma James murder case, walking in hallway, Los Angles, 1935 or 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936 or 1936
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.
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."
Robert S. James, in suit and tie, carrying hat and coat, smiling, walking in hallway, with doors and drinking fountain in background
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1738, NITRATE, May 12, 1936, 1 neg. Robert James, Murderer, 5/3/36
Handwritten at edge of negative: Robert S James
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 0068
uclamss_1429_0068
ark:/21198/zz002d98cn
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Crime
People
James, Robert S., 1895-1942
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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