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Title
Henry Bodkin and Buron Fitts question William E. Tanner, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
August 1935
1935-08
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.
Tanner sits in a chair between Fitts and Bodkin. The attorneys lean in towards Tanner, who seems to be in mid-conversation sitting with his hands folded in his lap.
The investigation of the torture-kidnapping of Henry G. Bodkin and his wife has been reopened in suspicion that there was another accomplice with Tanner, Harry Brooks, and J. J. Hill. Tanner and Brooks have been sentenced to death for torturing Bodkin by burning his fingers with matches.
Photograph appears with the article, "Doomed Man Aids Inquiry," Los Angeles Times, 02 Aug 1935: A1.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Henry G. Bodkins x Wm E Tanner x Buron Fitts 8-1-35
Text from newspaper caption: William E. Tanner, center, facing death on the gallows with Harry Brooks for the kidnapping of Henry G. Bodkin, left, attorney, is shown being requestioned by Dist.-Atty. Fitts reportedly in connection with another man's complicity in the crime.
Text from negative sleeve: 1364 - Henry G. Bodkins Wm E Tanner Buron Fitts Bodkins Kidnaping 8-1-35 [stamped:] [illegible]
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7874
ark:/21198/zz002dfncr
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Fitts, Buron, 1895-1973
Bodkin, Henry, 1886-1972
Tanner, William E
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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