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Title: Courtroom scene during Gordon Stewart Northcott's murder trial, Riverside, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: [between January 1, 1929-February 7, 1929]
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.
Gordon Stewart Northcott was accused of kidnapping, molesting, torturing, and brutally murdering three young boys and aiding in the murder of another in 1928, which his mother admitted to. She received a life sentence in jail. Northcott was found guilty on all accounts and was executed by hanging on October 2, 1930 at the age of 23.
Almost identical image 21198/zz0002pjxt has typed note on negative which states "I PLEADE NOT GUILTY." ..."Left to right; District Attorney Buron Fitts; front row standing: Dep. Dist. Atty. Clifford Thoms; Norbert Savay, chief defense counsel; Northcott, and A.H. DeTremaudan, defense attorney."
Text from negative sleeve: Eastman, George. Gordon Scoot ['Stewart' is written in below with an arrow to Scoot] Northcott murder case, 1928. nitrates.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2054
ark:/21198/zz002dczsd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Riverside
Serial murderers--California--Riverside
Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
Thoms, Clifford, 1896-1976
Savay, Norbert, 1873-1950
DeTremaudan, A. H
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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