Florence Hessal, Brunswick police matron, with hands tied and face covered

Photograph

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Police Matron Florence Hessel posing as Mrs. Lancelot Cooper with hands tied: Origformat: Print-Photographic
Police Matron Florence Hessel posing as Mrs. Lancelot Cooper with hands tied

Origformat: Print-Photographic

Name/Title

Florence Hessal, Brunswick police matron, with hands tied and face covered

Entry/Object ID

1990.158.617.c

Description

B/W photograph of Florence Hessel, Brunswick police matron, demonstrating how Evangeline Cooper, the wife of Lancelot Cooper, a welder at Bath Iron Works, was found with her hands tied and a scarf over her face, the day Lancelot Cooper was killed. She claimed that an intruder had stabbed her husband to death, when she, in fact, did. The photograph was taken in the old Town Hall on Maine Street in Brunswick. The murder took place on January 18, 1951.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Murders, Town Hall - Brunswick