Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article, “Child Tells of Seeing Killing: Girl Changes Her Story in Mother’s Death Case Court Scene as Small Girl Tells of Fatal Shooting GIRL UPSETS DEATH TRIAL Accused Mother Took Gun From Woman, Says Child in Changed Testimony,” Los Angeles Times, 8 Jun. 1935: 1. Text from newspaper caption: All the State’s most sanguine hopes of convicting Mrs. Gladys Carter and sending her to the gallows for the slaying of Miss Frances Wallace are pinned on the testimony of the accused woman’s 7-year-old child, Virginia. This scene depicts the little girl on the witness stand, F. L. Knox, court reporter, is shown penning the words that may spell the mother’s doom. Superior Judge Bowron is seen on the bench. The child’s doll is beside her on the stand. Cross-questioning failed to shake the girl after she had told new story of killing. Handwritten on negative: Virginia Carter, Judge Bowron. Text from negative sleeve: 1087—Virginia Carter, Judge Bowron 7-7-35 [Stamped:] JUL 17 1935.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7396 ark:/21198/zz002df2w9
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Children--California--Los Angeles Witnesses--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Judges--California--Los Angeles Bowron, Judge Knox, F. L Carter, Virginia, 1930-
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