Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Related to Los Angeles Times article, August 10, 1935, Pond Death Confab Held. While tentative plans for an inquest were announced, Robert S. James, beauty-parlor operator, yesterday conferred with Capt. Norris Stensland at the Sheriff’s office in connection with the death of his bride, Mrs. Mary Bush [sic] James, whose partly submerged body was discovered last Monday in the fish pond of her La Crescenta home. … Robert S. James, in jacket and tie, and Norris Stensland, in shirt and tie, holding photograph or paper, both seated at table with many photographs under glass top, with pen holder made of dice and adding machine on table, lamp, fan, and shelves in 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: Robt. S. James, Norris Stensland Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1738, NITRATE, 2 negs. Robert S. James, Norris Stensland, Fishpond death, Sept. 11, 1935
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0074 0074 ark:/21198/zz002d98kr
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Legal People Crime James, Robert S., 1895-1942 Stensland, Norris Gilbert, 1891-1956
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