Image / Detective Lieutenant Vernon Rasmussen and murderer Charles "Chas" Layman, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Detective Lieutenant Vernon Rasmussen and murderer Charles "Chas" Layman, 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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Massacre Blame Fixed" Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec 1935: A1.
Detective Lieutenant Rasmussen sits beside Layman, whose hands remain folded in his lap. Rows of spectators are seated behind them.
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.
Handwritten on negative: Dt. Lt. Rasmussen Chas. Layman 12/19/35 153 153
Text from negative sleeve: 4136 - Dect. Lt. Rasmussen Chas Layman Murder 12/19/35 [stamped:] Dec 23 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13140
ark:/21198/zz002hn8sk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Shooting--California--Los Angeles
Rasmussen, Vernon, 1900-1979
Layman, Charles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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