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. James Fagan Culver denies shooting 44-year-old Ethel E. Whittaker in an attempted hotel robbery. He was obtained by police in a building next door to Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker's hotel at 624 South Alvarado Street with three bullet wounds. Culver stares at Captain Wallis while the detective leans forward over the young man and points at a large blood stain on his shirt. Photograph appears with the article, "Hotel Death Gun Hunted," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar 1936: A3. Text from newspaper caption: James F. Culver, left, with Detective Captain Wallis pointing to bullet hole in bloody shirt. Culver repeatedly denied fatal shooting of Mrs. Ethel E. Whittaker. Handwritten on negative: Capt Bert Wallace James Fagan Culver Text from negative sleeve: 4412 - Capt Bert Wallace James Fagan Culver Whittaker Murder [stamped:] Mar 25 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13588 ark:/21198/zz002hnt8j
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Crimes--California--Los Angeles Migrant laborers--American--California--Los Angeles Detectives--California--Los Angeles Blood Wallis, Bert, 1880-1959 Culver, James Fagan, b. 1912 or 1913
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