Nellie May Madison admits to shooting her husband in self-defense, Los Angeles County, 1935

Title: Nellie May Madison admits to shooting her husband in self-defense, Los Angeles County, 1935
Date Created: June 1935
Date: 1935-06
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Nellie has admitted that she shot husband Eric Madison out of self defense after he tried to attack her with a knife.
Nellie rests her chin on the knuckles of her hand.
Photograph appears with the article, "Iron Woman Confesses," Los Angeles times, 21 June 1935: 1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: MADISON, NELLIE MURDER CASE
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Nellie Madison
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Nellie Madison, under sentence to be hanged for the killing of her husband, which she denied throughout her trial, yesterday admitted she shot in self-defense.

Genre: Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Madison, Nellie May, 1895-1953
Location: Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Widows
Portrait photographs
Law & legal affairs--California--Los Angeles County
Homicides--California--Los Angeles County

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6196
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwc8r
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