Bert C. Webster visits the location of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin's body with police, Newhall, 1924

Title: Bert C. Webster visits the location of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin's body with police, Newhall, 1924
Date Created: April 1924
Date: 1924-04
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Similar photograph appears with the headline, "Where Trunk Was Cast Into Ditch by Slayer and Man Held in Case," Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr 1924: 2.
Bert Webster stands with a group of men, the one closest to the camera most likely identifiable as Detective Longuevan.
Margaret Willis and Bert C. Webster tossed the body of Dr. Benjamin Baldwin over this railing a short distance south of the Newhall tunnel after Willis killed him and stuffed his body into a trunk.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: WILLIS, MARGARET MURDER CASE

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Longuevan, Dwight West, 1890-1959
Webster, Bert C.
Location: Newhall (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Criminal investigations--California--Newhall
Police--California--Newhall

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_4495
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cq9c3
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Rights Country: US
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