Jurors in the trial of Louise Peete find her guilty of first-degree murder, Los Angeles, 1921
Item Overview
- Title
- Jurors in the trial of Louise Peete find her guilty of first-degree murder, Los Angeles, 1921
- Date Created
- February 5, 1921
- Date
- 1921-02-05
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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This photograph appears with the article, "Mrs. Peete Found Guilty in First Degree; Jury Fixes Penalty at Life Imprisonment; Convicted Murderess of Jacob C. Denton Shows No Emotion at the Verdict; May Ask for Retrial or Appeal," Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 1921: pg I1.
The jury in the murder trial of Mrs. Louise Peete, who was convicted of first degree murder in the death of Jacob C. Denton, a wealthy mining engineer.
Louise Peete served 18 years for the murder of Jacob Denton. In 1945 she was convicted of a second murder, this time of Margaret Logan, a wealthy woman who had supported Peete while she was in prison. For the second murder she was given the death penalty, and in 1947 became the second woman to be executed in California.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Peete, Louise, 1888-1947
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Juries--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_11197
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h967v
- 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 .