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Investigator Tommy Thompson as C.A. Gloeckner tries to hide his distraught wife Emma Gloeckner, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Investigator Tommy Thompson as C.A. Gloeckner tries to hide his distraught wife Emma Gloeckner, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: April 2, 1936
1936-04-02
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Sister Fails in Trip Plan," Los Angeles Times, 03 Apr 1936: 2.
Tommy Thompson stop short rounding a corner. Behind him Mr. Gloeckner restrains his wife by grabbing one of her arms as she obscures her face with her hat.
Emma Gloeckner has not succeeded in coming up with enough money to fly to Trenton, New Jersey, to provide legal evidence in an attempt to stop the execution of her brother Bruno Hauptmann for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
Handwritten on negative: Tommy Thompson ^(Investigator)| Mrs Emma Gloeckner Mr C. A. Gloeckner 4/2/36
Text from newspaper caption: Unable to finance an air trip to Trenton, N.J., with legal plans she believes would halt the electrocution of her brother, Mrs. Emma Gloeckner, sister of the doomed Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Lindbergh baby slayer, hides her face from the cameraman while her husband, C. A. Gloeckner of Beverly Hills, holds her in his arms.
Text from negative sleeve: 1866 - Mrs. Emma Gloeckner x Mr. C. A. Gloeckner Tommy Thompson (Investigator) "Lindberg baby slayer" x (Bruno Hauptmann's Sister) 4/2/36 [stamped:] May 20 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8164
ark:/21198/zz002dg0c1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Family members--American--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Gloeckner, Charles Albert, b. 1891 or 92-1961
Gloeckner, Emma, 1891-1945
Lindbergh family
Thompson, Tommy
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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