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. Related to Los Angeles Times article, October 8, 1935, Officers Capture Mae West Death Threat Suspect, Six Others Questioned in $1000 Plot After Seizure of Studio Bus Boy as He Assertedly Picks Up Decoy. Suspected as the author of a series of sinister notes to Mae West, motion-picture actress, threatening death or disfiguration by acid unless she paid $1000, George Janios, 38-year-old bus boy at a Western-avenue studio, last night was in the custody of investigators … Reverse sides of pages in image uclamss_1429_0035 Photograph of print, 2 pages of letter in image, with measurement strip at edge of letter, attached to board with tacks Janios was released from custody two days later. Text reads: [Added by investigators: 3] lose your career and beauty we are going to give you a little facts. On the set - or fights or home 570 Rossmore. Or riding or parties or studio. We see you every day. If you care to put ad in the morning Examiner personal ad by Tuesday nite I will. M.W. And we will get touch with you. Tell Timothy we know him personal bye Acid Burn's. [On bottom page, added by investigators: #1] Acid is a horrible deed to throw in one's face so beautiful. In the height's of her career for the small sum of on thousand dollar's we could of did it. Many times already but we want to see what you would say first. We had your chauffeur automatic last Friday but put it back ask him if he left it in the car and then came back for it an hour later Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2475, NBox6, Oct 22 1935, Extortion Letters sent to Mae West, 10-10-35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0034 ark:/21198/zz002d976k
Language
English
Subject
Extortion--California--Los Angeles Crime West, Mae
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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