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Title
Interior door in the home of murder victim Jacob Denton, Los Angeles, 1920-1921
Date Created and/or Issued
[between 1920-1921]
1920/1921
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.
Close up of a door in the home of Jacob Denton, a wealthy mining engineer whose body was found in the basement three months after he disappeared. The house was located at 675 South Catalina Street.
Louise Peete was convicted on Feb. 5, 1921 of first-degree murder in the death of Jacob Denton. She served 18 years in San Quentin before being released. In 1945 she was convicted of a second murder, this time of Margaret Logan, a wealthy woman who had supported Peete while she was in prison. For the second murder she was given the death penalty, and in 1947 became the second woman to be executed in California.
Text from negative sleeve: Peete, Louise, Case
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_11206
ark:/21198/zz002h96jh
Subject
Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Peete, Louise, 1888-1947
Denton, Jacob C
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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