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) 825-2381
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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 … 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. 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
Crime Kidnappings--California Smith, Ruth, b. 1910 or 11
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