Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Note with partial ransom instructions, created with cut-out words and letters, held by 2 gloved hands on wooden background, reading: walk TO YOUR LEFT ACROSS STREET to Bank Here Will be A BOX IN HOLE IN Bank With FINAL Instruction We like tricks...but we prefer to keep them out of business. This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 7, 1933, Mrs. Skeele Ransom Demands Told in Notes Text from newspaper caption: The note which gave the instructions to cross the street to the bank. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10144 - Mrs. Mary B. Skeeles - 1934 Kidnaping - (Return to Library [Stamped:] Dec 19 [1934?] [1937?]
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0240 uclamss_1429_0240 ark:/21198/zz002d9gd2
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Crime People Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942
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