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Title: Murder suspect Samuel Whittaker appears in court, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa March, 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.
Retired organist Samuel T. Whittaker was arrested in March on suspicion of murdering his wife Ethel E. Whittaker.
Whittaker sits in the witness stand before a jury, on the right, and judge, on the left.
Text from negative sleeve: 4412 - 4/14/36 Samuel T. Whittaker Ethel E. Whittaker Murder 3/10/36 [most likely 3/19/36]
Handwritten on negative: Samuel Whittaker
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13589
ark:/21198/zz002hnt92
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Whittaker, Samuel T., 1876-1937
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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