Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Close-up of windows of the house of W. H. Bowers in Los Angeles. The photograph was taken in the course of a court proceeding in which his wife, Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, was accused of plotting to poison him with her friend Elmer M. Archer. Olive Bowers used window shade signals to let Archer know if her husband was at home or not. The poison plot was overheard on the 2-party telephone line. The photograph appears with the article "Bride Denies Murder Plot; Says Plan to Poison Husband Was Only Joke; Man Confesses Part After Phone Talk Heard; Husband and Pastor Will be Questioned Today," Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1926 Handwritten on negative: W. H. Bowers home Text from newspaper caption: Questioned in Sawtelle Murder Plot: Window from which a signal was to have been flashed. Text from negative sleeve: Bowers, W. H. & Wife. Poison Plot Case. 1926.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_1378 ark:/21198/zz002dbtnz
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Crime Environment Houses--California--Los Angeles Bowers, W. H., William H., b. 1862
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