Boy who witnessed suspect entering building, sits on the ground and looks towards doorway

Boy who witnessed suspect entering building, sits on the ground and looks towards doorway

Item Information

Title:
Boy who witnessed suspect entering building, sits on the ground and looks towards doorway
Name on Item:
Record American, Dick Thomson
Date:
August 31, 1962
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Film negatives
Portrait photographs
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Brearley Collection
Subjects:
Boys
Homicides
Witnesses
Apartment houses
Doors & doorways
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Dorchester
435 Columbia Road, Dorchester, MA
Extent:
1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 13 x 10 cm (4 x 5 format)
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Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Additional information accompanying item: Sullivan, Jane - Latest Strangle Victim; Scenes....Boy who saw suspect...Artist conception, by Dick Thomson. 8/31/62.
Caption: His best clue - Boy of 7, playing with toy car in rear of Columbia Rd., Dorchester, first floor apartment of Jane Sullivan, 67, sixth and latest strangle victim, shows how he saw suspect, 35, in blue pants and yellow shirt, entering side cellar door. From his description, sketch was drawn of suspect for police. "I saw his yellow shirt, torn at the right shoulder, through window," says boy, 7, reenacting scene. Police believe it was her bedroom window.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; John Booras
Notes (date):
Date from item or material accompanying item.
Identifier:
18_11_000391