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Title: Murder farm axe
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: J. Clark Sellers, criminologist, examines an axe which Sanford Clark says Mrs. Louise Northcott used in Walter Collins' murder. Rex Welsh, police chemist, declares the axe is stained with human blood. It was found in a chicken coop on the ranch. Northcott said he killed the boys with a gun.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027540
Herald Examiner Collection
2207 Northcott case.
CARL0000030366
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10089
Subject: Northcott, Gordon Stewart,--d. 1929
Northcott, Sarah Louise,--1868-
Sellers, J. Clark
Crime--California--Wineville
Murder--California--Wineville
Evidence, Criminal
Axes--California--Wineville
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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