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Title
Ransom instructions, Mary B. Skeele kidnapping case, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued
1933
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
Description
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
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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