W. H. Bowers and Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers during poison plot trial, Los Angeles, 1926
Item Overview
- Title
- W. H. Bowers and Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers during poison plot trial, Los Angeles, 1926
- Date Created
- March, 1926
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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W. H. Bowers and Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt Bowers, married three just months, seated together at a court proceeding. Olive Bowers was accused of plotting with Elmer M. Archer to poison her husband. The plot was discovered when their conversations were overheard on a 2-party telephone line.
The photograph appears with the article "Bride Denies Murder Plot; Says Plan to Poison Husband Was Only Joke; Man Confesses Part After Phone Talk Heard; Husband and Pastor Will be Questioned Today," Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1926
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Bowers, W. H., William H., b. 1862
Bowers, Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt, b. 1888 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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People
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Legal
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1380
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dbtq0
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .