Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Detective Lieutenant Ellis holds the death report of Mildred Gross, completed with all her information, beside his face. After a lethal overdose of sleeping powder 28-year-old Mildred Gross was considered dead with a lack of reflexes, respiration, or pulse, but after several injections of the drug picrotoxin by Dr. A.D. Trotter she began to breathe again without regaining consciousness. 11 hours later she passed away, survived by her husband and two sons. Photograph appears with the article, "Science Loses Death Battle," Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov 1938: 9. Text from negative sleeve: 15030 - Dt. Lieut Jack Ellis with Mildred Gross death report. 11-26-38 [stamped:] Dec 1 1938 Text from newspaper caption: Medical science obtained remarkable results from picrotoxin in trying to save life of Mrs. Mildred Gross. Detective Lieutenant Jack Ellis holds partly completed death report.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11759 ark:/21198/zz002h8kpf
Language
English
Subject
Paperwork Police--California--Los Angeles Ellis, Jack, (Lieutenant)
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