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Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Dorothea Barbour before their deaths, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Dorothea Barbour before their deaths, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1936
1936-02
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Carl stands at the bottom of the steps of his lodgings. Dorothea sits at the top of the steps. Two unidentified women and a dog sit with her.
There is a lookout for an arson slayer who is suspected to have beat to death and robbed Mr. and Mrs. Barbour. The perpetrator soaked the bed of the victims in gasoline and wired an electrical heater to a watch that set off the fire, partially cremating the bodies.
A composite of the photograph appears with the article, "Slain Pair Left in Fire," Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb 1936: 2.
Text from newspaper caption: Carl S. Barbour and his wife Dorothea, believed to be the two persons who were murdered and left on flaming bed in their lodging house yesterday.
Text from negative sleeve: 3753 - Carl S Barbour Dorothea Barbour deceased Barbour "clock" murders [stamped:] Feb [?] 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12814
ark:/21198/zz002hmwj6
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Spouses--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Barbour, Dorothea, 1885-1936
Barbour, Carl S., 1870-1936
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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