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Opal Belville and Rose Stewart at the inquest of Charles Layman, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Opal Belville and Rose Stewart at the inquest of Charles Layman, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 19, 1935
1935-12-19
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.
Opal Belville places one hand on top of Rose Stewart's hands in her lap.
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.
Handwritten on negative: 136 136 Opal Belville Rose Stewart 12/19/35
Text from negative sleeve: 4136 - Opal Belville Rose Stewart Chas. Layman Shooting Case 12/19/35 [stamped:] Dec 23 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Hearing testimony that set the blame in the rifle-massacre of their friends and relatives squarely on Charles Layman, are Opal Belville, left, friend of Lloyd Davis, who was murdered, and Rose Stewart, his cousin.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13143
ark:/21198/zz002hn8w4
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Shooting--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Family members--American--California--Los Angeles
Belville, Opal
Stewart, Rose
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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