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Charles "Chas" Layman on trial for murder of six W.P.A. workers, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Charles "Chas" Layman on trial for murder of six W.P.A. workers, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 19, 1935
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.
Families of the W.P.A. members slain and witnesses crowded in the courtroom to listen to the inquest of Charles Layman, former W.P.A. employee, who shot and killed six workmen at a site near La Brea Avenue and Exposition Boulevard.
Different photographs of the trial and Charles Layman appear in the article, "Massacre Blame Fixed" Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec 1935: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: [handwritten:] 4136 -- Chas. Layman WPA project murder of 5 fellow workers 12/19/35 [stamped:] DEC 23 1935
Handwritten on negative: Chas Layman 12/19/35
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13139
ark:/21198/zz002hn8r2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Shooting--California--Los Angeles
Layman, Charles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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