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Title: Murder suspect Samuel Whittaker, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: [between March and June, 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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Whittaker is photographed seated, wearing a hat, with one hand holding his cane and another on his chin. Dramatic lighting casts a dark shadow behind him.
Retired organist Samuel Whittaker was arrested in March on the suspicion of murdering his wife, Ethel Whittaker. In June he was found guilty of her murder and guilty of assault with intent to murder for shooting James Fagan Culver.
Handwritten on negative: Samuel Whittaker
Text from negative sleeve: 4412 -- Samuel Whittaker (retired organist) murder of wife [stamped:] JUN 8- 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13587
ark:/21198/zz002hnt71
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Whittaker, Samuel T., 1876-1937
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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