Margaret Willis and her son, Harold 'Sonny' Willis, Los Angeles, 1924

Title: Margaret Willis and her son, Harold 'Sonny' Willis, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created: 1924
Date: 1924
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Margaret Willis confessed to the police that she fatally shot Dr. Benjamin Baldwin in self defense. To keep the murder from her son she hid the body of Dr. Baldwin in a trunk, and together she and Bert C. Webster tossed the suitcase over an embankment.
Harold 'Sonny" Willis sits on his mother's lap, one hand over hers and his other arm around her shoulder.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Willis, Margaret Murder Case
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Margaret Willis, Sonny Willis

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Willis, Harold, b. 1912 or 13
Willis, Margaret
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4493
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cq992
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Rights Country: US
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