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Title
Investigator Marjorie Fairchild and Lois Wright, witness in Mary Emma James murder case, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
1935
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.
Marjorie Fairchild, in dotted dress, and Lois Wright, in light dress, walking together in hallway, door reading Women behind them, sign reading District Attorney on wall in center, photographer partially visible at right
Related to Los Angeles Times article, April 21, 1936, Airs Love Affair With Uncle, James Case Aired Today, Evidence Against Man and Niece on Morals Charge Goes to Grand Jury. Evidence in the morals case involving Robert S. James ... and his niece, Lois Alice Wright ... will be presented ... James’s fifth wife, Mrs. Mary Busch James, was found drowned ... last August 5. At that time James was questioned in connection with his wife’s death, but was later released. ...
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1738, 1 of 2, Nitrate, May 12, 1936, 7 [struck out in pen: 10] negs. Robert S. James, Charles (Chuck) Hope, Joe Houtenbrink (Snake Joe), Buron Fitts (D.A.), Robert P. Stewart, Lois Wright, Marjorie Fairchild (D.A. Investigator), Incinerator back of Beverly & Vermont, James case (2/6/36)
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0070
uclamss_1429_0070
ark:/21198/zz002d98fp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
People
Legal
Crime
Fairchild, Marjorie K., b. 1897 or 8
Wright, Lois Alice, b. 1914 or 15
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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