Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of 2-page letter on lined paper, 1 side inverted, attached to board with tacks 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 … 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 Janios was released from custody two days later. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2475, NBox6, Oct 22 1935, Extortion Letters sent to Mae West, 10-10-35
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_0040 0040 ark:/21198/zz002d97dp
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Crime Extortion--California--Los Angeles People West, Mae
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