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. Photograph appears with the article, "Hotel Death Gun Hunted," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar 1936: A3. Culver stares at Captain Wallis while the detective leans forward over the young man and points at a large blood stain on his shirt. 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. 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
Migrant laborers--American--California--Los Angeles Crimes--California--Los Angeles Blood Detectives--California--Los Angeles Culver, James Fagan, b. 1912 or 1913 Wallis, Bert, 1880-1959
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