Edward C. Godfrey at police shooting case, Los Angeles, 1935

Description: Ed Godfrey stands beside a window in a crowded courtroom, wearing a white shirt and with one hand on his hip,
35-year-old William Focher was mistakenly shot by police, believed to have held up the Olympic Auditorium. Ed Godfrey, a relative of Focher's, believed Lou Daro was involved in the murder due to a debt he owed Focher's brother.
This photograph is likely related to the article, "Killing Held Justifiable," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jul 1935: A1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1217-- Ed Godfrey Mistake Killing [stamped:] JUL 22 1935
Handwritten on negative: Ed Godfrey (standing)

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Godfrey, Edward C., 1881-1960
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Police shootings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7554
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002df8bx
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