Caption reads: "Abbott and Counsel -- Burton E. Abbott is flanked by his attorneys, Harold Hove (left at table) and Stanley D. Whitney in court for finale to his long trial for kidnap-murder of Stephanie Bryan. Seated among spectators are (left arrow) Abbott's mother, Elsie, and (right arrow) his wife, Georgia. Abbott was condemned to gas chamber." Abbott was then moved into Death Row at San Quentin Prison, where he was executed on March 1, 1957.