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First Page of the Pridham blackmail letter and second page of the second blackmail letter, 1926

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Title: First Page of the Pridham blackmail letter and second page of the second blackmail letter, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: March, 1926
1926-03
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.
Blackmail letters addressed to R. W. Pridham, former president of the chamber of commerce. Beginning of second page of second letter: "matter. Your chauffeur played and showed no skill in driving around the block and parking in the ally way and running to the drug store with his hat off, one of us followed him around a bit, you must show more intelligence than that."
Related to the article, "PRIDHAM GIVEN DEATH THREAT: Suspect Jailed by Police Extortion..." Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 1926: A1.
Handwritten on negative sleeve: Pridham, R.W.. M.M. 1928
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7258
ark:/21198/zz002cxmww
Language: Chinese
Subject: Extortion--California--Los Angeles
Pridham, R. W. (Richard W.), 1856-1938
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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