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Officers T.R. Welch and J.E. Chase, the police who shot the bullets that killed William Focher, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Officers T.R. Welch and J.E. Chase, the police who shot the bullets that killed William Focher, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: July 1935
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.
Shortly after an altercation with wrestling promoter Lou Daro 35-year-old William Focher was shot by police officers after they had confused him for a bandit. After several hours of being treated at the hospital he died.
Photograph appears with the article, "Error Killed By Police to be Aired at Inquest," Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1935: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 1147 - J.E. Chase (Radio officer 798) T.R. Welch (Radio officer 348) Shooting of Focher 9/11/35 [stamped:] Jul 17 1935
Handwritten on negative: T.R. Welch 348 J.E. Chase 798
Text from newspaper caption: Radio Officers J. E. Chase, left, and T. R. Welch who fired shots that felled William Focher, after the latter's alteration with Lou Daro, wrestling promoter.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7456
ark:/21198/zz002df4z9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Police shootings--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles
Welch, Theodore Roosevelt, 1898-1992
Chase, J. E
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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