Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Photograph related to article, "Pathos Reigns in Gettle Home," Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1934: 2. Police and their mother kept the news of their father's kidnapping from the Gettle children, taking steps to make things seemed normal. This included letting the children don costumes in order to attend a carnival at El Rodeo school in Beverly Hills. William Gettle was kidnapped from his ranch home in Arcadia on the night of May 9th during a housewarming party, then held in a La Crescenta house by a gang consisting of three men and two women. Police foiled their ransom plot and rescued Gettle on May 14th, following clues recorded on a dictagraph placed on the telephone conversations of a suspected bank robber. Text from negative sleeve: Gettle, William F. Kidnap case.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4876 ark:/21198/zz002ctsrw
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Children--California--Beverly Hills Gettle, Betty Gettle, Robert Girten, 1927-1969 Gettle, Jimmy Gettle, William Frank, Jr., 1926-2002
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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