Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, January 1, 1938, Mad Pirate Terror Reign on Yacht Told, Harrowed Survivors Recount Killing of Faulding and Morgan. Mutinous murder and a piratical five-day reign of terror on the high seas aboard the blood-soaked pleasure schooner Aafje were disclosed by harrowed survivors … stories of the death of Dwight L. Faulding, Santa Barbara hotel man and owner of the craft, shot by Jack Morgan, crazed houseboy and seaman. Morgan was later clubbed to death by two deckhands and his body thrown to the sharks … formal murder charges were filed against Robert Horne and George Spernak, young deckhands … These charges, authories unofficially admitted, are intended as a legal formality. … Man at left or center possibly 1937 murder victim Dwight Faulding Photograph of print Four men in military uniforms, two women in dark dresses, one holding book, all standing, outdoors with building in background Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10253 - Dwight L Faulding [Stamped:] Jan 13 1938 Handwritten at edge of print: Taken at World's Fair, 1934, Elsie & Anne
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image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0329i uclamss_1429_0329i ark:/21198/zz002d9kgj
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Government Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) Faulding, Dwight, 1888-1937
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