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. Three threatening notes received by Lalla Vennum, and her mother, that warn the Lalla to marry Ed Mylar. Note #1, "You got her away but it will do no good. Well get both." Note #2, "Warning. Lalla Vennum You and E.D. Mylar must be married within 2 days or you'll both wish you had. K.K.K." Note #3, (mostly illegible), includes "final notice." Related to the article, "Seek Clew In Girl Branding; Police Hunt Hooded Pair of Mutilators; Fiery Cross Burned Into Flesh of Arm; K.K.K. Warnings Followed by Attack," Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 1926: A10. Handwritten on negative: KKK notes in Lalla Vennum case Text from negative sleeve: Vennum, Mrs. Lalla, 1926
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4214 ark:/21198/zz002cpzpg
Language
English
Subject
Crimes--California--Los Angeles Vennum, Lillian, b. 1906 or 07 Vennum, Beatrice, b. 1878 or 79
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