Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the photo spread, "Mrs. Skeele Ransom Demands Told in Notes," Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1933 Man in suit, tie, and hat, squatting in hole dug near Montecito Drive, holding string in one hand, pointing with the other toward open box weighted down with rock, reading One Pound Edgemont Butter Crackers Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10144 - Mrs. Mary B. Skeeles - 1934 Kidnaping - (Return to Library [Stamped:] Dec 19 [1934?] [1937?] Text from newspaper caption: The hole at the top of the bank with the empty cracker box and string attached. It was evidently the plan of the kidnapers to haul the ransom money down the side of the bank and then make their get-away.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0252 uclamss_1429_0252 ark:/21198/zz002d9gt8
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles Government Crime Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942
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