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Suspects Fred Stettler and Emyt Lentz (Sokolis) in court for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barbour, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Suspects Fred Stettler and Emyt Lentz (Sokolis) in court for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Barbour, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 23, 1936
1936-02-23
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Another photograph of Stettler and Lentz taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Dual Killing Quiz Grows," Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 1936: 9.
Date taken from the catalog record of another photograph of Stettler and Lentz, which references the newspaper article rather than the negative sleeve.
25-year-old Swiss chauffeur Gottfried "Fred" Stettler is being held in suspicion of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Dorothea Barbour. Car dealer Emyt Lentz claimed Stettler confessed to the murders then repudiated his story. Lentz was held and then exonerated. Stettler was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of burglary, and one count of arson. The victims were found partially cremated in bed with their skulls smashed.
Text from negative sleeve: 3810 --- Emyt Lantz [sic] Gottfried Stettler (aka Fred), Barbour "clock" murder suspects (murder) [stamped:] FEB 28 1936
Handwritten on negative: Emyt Lantz, Gottfried Stettler
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12859
ark:/21198/zz002hmz3f
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Chauffeurs--California--Los Angeles
Stettler, Gottfried, b. 1911
Sokolis, Emyt L. (Emyt Leon), 1890-1968
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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