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. Mrs. Holden listens to the inquest of the killer of her husband while her mother leans in close to her face to speak to her. Other men and women sit 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. Photograph appears with the article, "Massacre Blame Fixed" Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec 1935: A1. Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Merle Farley, right, is pictured at the W.P.A. slaughter inquest, comforting her daughter, Mrs. Lloyd E. Holden, whose husband was one of six victims of a confessed grudge slayer on a Federal government project. Handwritten on negative: 130 130 12/19/35 Mrs. Lloyd E. Holder Mrs. Merle Farley Text from negative sleeve: 4136 - Mrs Lloyd E. Holden Mrs Merle Farley Chas. Layman Shooting Case 12/19/35 12/19/35 [stamped:] Dec 23 1935
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13142 ark:/21198/zz002hn8vm
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Family members--American--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Widows--California--Los Angeles Shooting--California--Los Angeles Holden, Elvamary, 1916-1990 Farley, Merle, 1892-1977
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