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Title
Digging for victims
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1928
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Accused murderer Gordon Stewart Northcott, shackled to an officer, watches the process of digging being done by Deputy Sheriff Ben deCrevecoueur of Riverside. No bodies were found, but they did unearth fragments of bones and wisps of hair, as well as scraps of clothing and charred belongings of the missing children.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00027431
Herald Examiner Collection
2207 Northcott case.
CARL0000030228
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/9976
Subject
Northcott, Gordon Stewart,--d. 1929
Northcott, Sarah Louise,--1868-
Crime--California--Wineville
Murder--California--Wineville
Evidence, Criminal--California--Wineville
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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