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Title
Investigator Marjorie Fairchild questioning Lois Wright, witness in Mary Emma James murder case, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued
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.
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, April 20, 1936, Girl Seized With Uncle, Dictagraph Used by Raiders, Morals Case Arrest Brings Reopening of Fish-Pond Death Inquiry
Marjorie Fairchild, in dark suit and hat, hand on elbow of Lois Wright, in dress and jacket holding handkerchief to mouth, both seated at table with blotter, with wall with calendar in background
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1738, NITRATE, May 5, 1936, 3 negs. Lois Wright
Text from newspaper caption: Woman Questioned in Death Investigation. Caught in a police trap with Robert S. James yesterday was his niece, Lois Wright, shown at the right being questioned by Marjorie Fairchild, investigator for the District Attorney. She denied any knowledge of the strange “fish pond death” of James’s fifth wife. Times photo
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0082
uclamss_1429_0082
ark:/21198/zz002d98xx
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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