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Title
Held in stabbing
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1959
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
Photograph caption reads: "Mrs. Orpha Mitchell, 41, mother of two children, is questioned in stabbing of her husband, William, 43-year-old aircraft mechanic. Detectives C. F. Koehler, left, and Ray Fisher, watch as Officer F. E. Sloan shows Philippine hunting knife which, police say, caused eight-inch shoulder wound. Mitchell is in 'fair' condition at Sun Valley Receiving Hospital." Photograph dated: May 6, 1959.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00082972
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d001_f34_i23
CARL0000082059
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42037
Subject
Family violence--California
Crime--California
Valley Times Collection photographs

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