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Title: Correspondence between Charles Johnston and Dorothy Smith, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: April 16, 1934
1934-04-16
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.
Some excerpts from the note appear in the article, "Spurned Suitor's Love for Slain Girl Pledged by Tender Notes on Playing Cards, Youth Tells Tragic Tale," Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 1934: A2.
Correspondence between Charles Johnston and Dorothy Smith, before Johnston murdered Smith. Collected by Los Angeles police investigators.
Text from negative sleeve: Johnston, Charles Murder Case 1934
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5243
ark:/21198/zz002cv7df
Language: English
Subject: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Smith, Dorothy J., 1915-1934
Johnston, Charles, b. 1911 or 12
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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