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Convicted kidnappers Luella Pearl Hammer and E.H. Van Dorn with unidentified men, Los Angeles, 1933

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Title: Convicted kidnappers Luella Pearl Hammer and E.H. Van Dorn with unidentified men, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: [between February and April 1933]
1933-02/1933-04
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.
Howard Van Dorn eventually confessed to kidnapping, leading to the convictions of both he and Luella Pearl Hammer. Both received life sentences. Hammer was unsuccessful in her plea of insanity.
Photograph was taken during the trial of Luella Pearl Hammer and Howard Von Dorn (black suit), who were charged with the kidnapping of Mary B Skeele, wife of a USC professor.
Handwritten on negative: Luella Pearl Hammer, W.D. Hammer[sic]
Text on negative sleeve: Hammer, Luella Pearl Kidnap Case
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5121
ark:/21198/zz002cv36d
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Van Dorn, E. H., (Earl Howard), b. 1893
Hammer, Luella Pearl, 1895-1990
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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