Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Archie kneels beside his daughter, who puts one arm around his shoulder and holds a bouquet of flowers in the other hand. Seven-year-old Virginia testified to the court that after witnessing her mother argue with her father's alleged mistress 20-year-old Frances Walker, Gladys Carter shot Frances. Virginia ran from the room and heard a second gunshot behind her, which is believed to have been self-inflicted by her mother, who is recovering and still too weak to testify. Other witnesses in the trial were neighbor Annie Olson, Captain Elmer C. Marty, and Frank L. Walker, father of the victim. Similar photograph appears with the article, "State Counting on Child in Mother's Death Trial," Los Angeles Times, 07 June 1935: 3. Handwritten on negative: Virginia Carter Archie Carter Text from negative sleeve: CARTER, VIRGINIA MURDER CASE 1935 AGE, 7, AND DOG, TESTIFIED IN MURDER CASE
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_1499 ark:/21198/zz002dbztg
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Fathers--California--Los Angeles Girls--California--Los Angeles Bouquets Daughters--American--California--Los Angeles Witnesses--California--Los Angeles Carter, Virginia, b. 1927 or 28 Carter, Archie, b. 1894 or 95
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