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Samuel Whittaker, Det. Lt. Ray Giese, Det. Lt. Thad Brown, and James Fagan Culver, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Samuel Whittaker, Det. Lt. Ray Giese, Det. Lt. Thad Brown, and James Fagan Culver, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 17, 1936
1936-03-17
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 Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Samuel Whittaker is being investigated on suspicion of murdering his wife, Ethel E. Whittaker, paying transient James Fagan Culver to shoot her at the hotel the Whittakers were staying at during a fake hold-up.
A similar photograph likely taken on the same occasion appears in the article, "Story Told of Shooting," Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar 1936: A2.
From left to right: Samuel Whittaker, Ray Giese, Thad Brown, James Fagan Culver. Whittaker is pointing his cane at Culver.
Handwritten on negative: Samuel Whittaker, Ray Giese, Thad brown, James Fagan Culver
Text from negative sleeve: 4412 -- James Fagan Culver - Thad Brown - Ray Gise - Samuel Whittaker [stamped:] MAR 25 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13594
ark:/21198/zz002hntgn
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Brown, Thad, 1902-1970
Whittaker, Samuel T., 1876-1937
Giese, Ray
Culver, James Fagan, b. 1912 or 1913
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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