Sanford Clark shows officials the chair from the "murder farm" in which he says the Winslow brothers and Walter Collins sat when they were killed, struck from behind by a hammer and hatchet wielded by Gordon Stewart Northcott. This chair was brought from the Wineville ranch to the Northcotts' Los Angeles home with other furniture, Clark informed Deputy Sheriffs A. B. Mendoza, left, and L. G. Ybarra, for whom he re-enacted the alleged killings.
Clark, Sanford Mendoza, A. B Ybarra, L. G Crime--California--Wineville Murder--California--Wineville Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.) Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Northcott, Gordon Stewart,d. 1929 Northcott, Sarah Louise,1868-
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