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) 825-2163
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Handwritten at bottom left: Jarvis, England, Boat [?] Smith, Jackson P, Rico Related to Los Angeles Times article, December 13, 1920, and subsequent articles about the murder of Fay Sudow: Demon Slays, Strips Woman. Strollers Find Nude Corpse Under Pile of Leaves. Body Terribly Mutilated to Prevent Identification. Signs of Terrifc Fight by Victim Before Killing. Text reads, in part: Los Angeles, Dec. 13, 1920, 2:30 a.m. Capt. Charles R. Moffatt, Commanding Detective Bureau. Sir: At 11:30 of Dec. 12 -- or tonight -- I was told by Paul J. Braud, a reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner, that if I went to the Examiner office I would be given some valuable information concerning the murder of an unidentified woman found in the eucalyptus grove at Edendale earlier in the day. ... I saw on a table a large amount of jewelry, a large leather folder, a suitcase (leather), a pile of women's clothing, two magazines and some papers, a thermometer and some collar buttons, etc. ... I asked [the reporters] to take me out to the place where they had found these things ... All of this stuff I have filed with the property clerk under my name so that it will be at hand for the officers investigating the case this morning. ... Respectfully, J F Bean. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: [Typewritten:] Sidow, Fay Mrs., Murder case, 1923 [Handwritten:] Sudow
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3160 3160 ark:/21198/zz002cn1mz
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Crime Legal Bean, James F., b. 1881 Sudow, Fay Levi, 1878?-1920 Moffatt, Charles R., b. 1857
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