Photo of Mrs. Olivia Shorter on her way to the preliminary hearings of Emmett R. Perkins, 44,
on kidnapping charges. Mrs. Shorter positively identified Emmett Perkins as the man who
kidnapped her husband at gunpoint. Sensational details of the kidnapping of Baxter Shorter,
the Mabel Monohan murder informer, were to be told by his wife at the preliminary hearings.

 

 

Photo of Mrs. Olivia Shorter taken by police escort to the preliminary hearings of Emmett Perkins.

 

 

Photo of Mrs. Olivia Shorter at a shadowbox showup of prisoners in Lincoln Heights Jail.
"He's the one", said Mrs. Shorter after positively identifying Emmett Perkins as the
man who kidnapped her husband at gunpoint.

 

 

Photo shows three of the women who came to the courts to rally to the defense of Barbara Graham's
co-defendants, Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo. From left to right: Mrs. Gladys Jones, a neighbor
of Perkins' sister, Mrs. Thelma Sustrick and Mrs. Eleanor Perkins, Emmett's wife. All three women
are talking to Attorney S. Ward Sullivan.

 

 

After hearing themselves convicted in the Mabel Monohan murder, Jack Santo and Emmett
Perkins are escorted out of the courtroom and back to their jail cells.

 

 

Photo of defendants Jack Santo (left), Emmett Perkins and Barbara Graham sitting
in the courtroom of the Monohan murder trial.

 

 

Spectators crowd the halls trying to get into the courtroom of the Monohan murder trial.

 

 

View of Emmett Perkins wearing a L.A. Co. jail shirt.

 

 

View of Jack Santo wearing a hat. It was believed he was the second man
in the kidnapping of Baxter Shorter.

 

 

Photo of defendant Jack Santo in the Monohan murder trial.