Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Gordon Stewart Northcott standing at the front of a courtroom during his murder trials. 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, and 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. Text from negative sleeve: Eastman, George. Gordon Scoot ['Stewart' is written in below with an arrow to Scoot] Northcott murder case, 1928. nitrates.
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_2059 ark:/21198/zz002dczz0
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Subject
Judicial proceedings--California--Riverside Serial murderers--California--Riverside Northcott, Gordon Stewart, 1906?-1930
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