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 … Janios was released from custody two days later. Photograph of 2-page letter on lined paper, 1 side inverted, attached to board with tacks Text reads: Acid is a holey job it never heal's. We have a air gun wich will shoot 100 yd's and it has a perfect sight we know we would be caught if we walk up to you an throw it in your face so we are playing safe we want $1000 by Tuesday nite a 12 o clock. There is a tin can in front of Warner Bros studio on Sun set Blvd. next to the Remick Music Pub. There a passage there. It's inside the concrete wall. Next to the hydrant tie a white handker chief on faucet so we know it there cross us and lose a million we will send a decoy for it love to Timothy an Brother West love Acid Burns 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_0040 ark:/21198/zz002d97dp
Language
English
Subject
Extortion--California--Los Angeles Crime People West, Mae
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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