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Title
Kidnap and assault victim Leota Vogel in the hospital, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued
December 11, 1934
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
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.
Vogel was walking home with a male friend when she was kidnapped. Her companion was attacked and left behind when Vogel was taken away in the attackers' car. Police found Vogel while the attack was still going on and her alleged attackers were arrested that night. They were; Earnest Ramirez, Cecilia Licon, Ramon Roucho, and Ramon Pena.
This photograph (cropped) appears with the article, "Noose Faced For Attack; Plight of Girl Shocks Police; Officers Work to Clinch Death Penalty for Four Linked to Crime," Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 1934: 3.
Kidnap and assault victim Leota Vogel in the hospital after she was attacked by four men.
Text from negative sleeve: Vogel, LeotaKidnap Case, 1935
Handwritten on negative: Leota Vogel
Text from newspaper caption: Victim of Fiendish Quartet; Leota Vogel, rescued from attackers by police, is shown in her bed at hospital recovering from ordeal at hands of four men.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4364
ark:/21198/zz002cq4vx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Vogel, Leota, b. 1914 or 15
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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