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. Fred sits on the witness stand, his body facing Frank Monfort. The legs of some of the jury members can be seen sitting on Fred's other side. Photograph appears with the article, "Fitts to Act on Stettler," Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb 1936: 9. 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 Smyt Lentz claimed Stettler confessed to the murders then repudiated his story. Text from negative sleeve: 3841 - Ray Pinker Fred Stettler clock murder 2 -24-36 [stamped:] Feb 28 1936 Handwritten on negative: Gottfried Stettler Frank Monfort Text from newspaper caption: Fred Stettler, right, held in connection with the murder last Wednesday of Carl S. Barbour, 66 years of age, and his wife, Dorothea G. Barbour, 61, refused to testify when called to the stand at an inquest into their deaths by Deputy Coroner Monfort, left, yesterday.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12885 ark:/21198/zz002hn00t
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Chauffeurs--California--Los Angeles Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles Monfort, Frank, 1876-1966 Stettler, Gottfried, b. 1911
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