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. 2 images of Ruth Smith, in dark dress and hat, holding small bottle, seated behind railing between woman and man. These 2 images are duplicated in uclamss_1429_2940 and uclamss_1429_2941. Connected to Los Angeles Times article, July 4, 1930, Fight Made to Win Back Sold Infant, Mother Given Kidnaping Warrant Against Woman Who Bought Baby. San Francisco, July 3. (Exclusive.) … Mrs. Ruth Smith of this city was granted a kidnaping warrant against Mrs. Bertha Higdon … to whom Mrs. Smith asserted she sold her baby on the day of its birth … Mrs. Smith charges Mrs. Higdon bought the child to deceive her husband … A second warrant was issued for Mrs. Higdon’s sister, Miss Gladys Hatfield … Mrs. Smith declared she was misled into believing Miss Hatfield intended adopting the baby legally … Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Smith, Ruth E. Mrs., kidnap case, 1930
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2942 2942 ark:/21198/zz002cm2r2
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Kidnappings--California Crime Smith, Ruth, b. 1910 or 11
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