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Title: Murder suspect Samuel Whittaker being booked at Central Jail, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 19, 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.
From left to right: Samuel Whittaker, H. M. Swanson, Det. Lt. Ray E. Giese, Sgt C. L. Huff. Whittaker removes his watch as he's booked at Los Angeles Central Jail.
Retired organist Samuel T. Whittaker was arrested in March on suspicion of murdering his wife Ethel E. Whittaker.
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 - being booked at Central Jail
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13590
ark:/21198/zz002hntbk
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Jails--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Giese, Ray
Whittaker, Samuel T., 1876-1937
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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