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Title: Quick lime bone pit
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
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Description: Officers taking specimens from a "murder farm" lime pit which yielded bones and wisps of hair. Scientists detected they were from two different boys, and comparison with samples completed identification, asserted investigators. Left is J. R. Quinn, chief investigator for the Sheriff's office, and Bert Kelly, Deputy Sheriff.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027521
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2207-Northcott case.
CARL0000030347
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10069
Subject: Crime--California--Mira Loma
Murder--California--Mira Loma
Bones
Hair
Evidence, Criminal
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Northcott, Gordon Stewart,d. 1929

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