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Samuel T. Whittaker and James Fagan Culver are arrested in connection with the murder of Ethel Whittaker, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Samuel T. Whittaker and James Fagan Culver are arrested in connection with the murder of Ethel Whittaker, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March-April 1936
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.
Culver and Whittaker sit on a bench looking at each other. Both of them hold a cigarette.
Samuel Whittaker has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife, paying transient James Fagan Culver to shoot her at the hotel the Whittakers were staying at during a fake hold-up.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Mate Jailed in Slaying," Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar 1936: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 4412 - 4/14/36 James Culver Samuel T. Whittaker Murder 3/10/36
Handwritten on negative: 141 141 James Culver Sam Whittaker
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13586
ark:/21198/zz002hnt6h
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Cigarettes
Staffs (Sticks)
Tramps--American--California--Los Angeles
Seating furniture--California--Los Angeles
Culver, James Fagan, b. 1912 or 1913
Whittaker, Samuel T., 1876-1937
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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