Lucius F. Payne with son Louis R. Payne (copy), Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Lucius F. Payne with son Louis R. Payne (copy), Los Angeles, 1934

Date Created

[circa June, 1934]

Date

1934-06

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Lucius F. Payne (left) stands beside his some Louis R. Payne (right), who appears to be in military uniform.
In early June, 1934, police officers discovered the bodies of Carrie L. Payne, 45, and Robert Payne, 15, at their Westwood home. They had been brutally murdered by Louis R. Payne, their respective son and brother, in late May. Payne was arrested several days after he committed the crime and after confessing at a Huntington Beach police station.
This photograph appears with the article, “Youth Admits Ax Killing of Mother and Brother,” Los Angeles Times, 04 Jun 1934: 1.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Louis Payne
Text from newspaper caption: Victims Shown With Surviving Relatives; In the upper row of pictures are, left to right, Mrs. Carrie L. Payne, the murdered mother; Robert Payne, the murdered boy, and at the right Louis Payne, the survivor son, and the surviving husband and father, L. f. Payne. In the second tier of pictures at the left is Dr. James T. Fisher of 10583 Holman Avenue, whose observations of unexplained circumstances at the home in his neighbors, the Paynes, led to the grewsome murder discovery by police yesterday. Next is the ax which police believe the murderer accomplished his fiendish work. Below is the Payne home at 10587 Holman avenue in the Westwood Hills region.
Text from negative sleeve Payne, Louis R.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Payne, Lucius
Payne, Louis Rude

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image