US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mary B. Skeele, wife of Walter Skeele, the Professor of Organ and Dean of the College of Music at the University of Southern California was kidnapped in 1933. The ransom was paid and Mrs. Skeele was returned unharmed. Mary B. Skeele, kidnapping victim, in the witness box in court, one hand on clock, with prosecutor William Russell standing at right, with floor plan of house on wall in background Related to Los Angeles Times article, April 7, 1933, Woman in Skeele Kidnapping Collapses As Asserted Man Companion Pleads Guilty, Cries Disrupt Court For Day, Adjournment Taken Because of Disturbance, Van Dorn Springs Surprise by Changing Plea, Faces Prison Sentence of Ten Years to Life. … A touch of drama was added to the trial during the morning session when an large mantel clock was offered for identification by Dep. Dist.-Attys. Kearney and Russell as the clock which Mrs. Skeele heard strike in the prison house. … Handwritten at edge of negative: Mrs. Mary B. Skeel & W.O. Russell
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2805 ark:/21198/zz002ckjwf
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Clocks & watches People Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Legal Crime Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942 Russell, William O., b. 1896
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