Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Having lived in Los Angeles for less than a month, Toner and Van Doren, along with their wives Alice and Elizabeth, were arrested on the grounds of burglarizing 2,500,000 feet of film negatives from a film laboratory in Parlin, N.J. Upon initial questioning both men denied knowledge of the burglary but later Toner ascertained he had been contacted by someone to sell the raw film, but he did not know the material had been stolen. Walter Toner stands alone with his hands in his pockets in the middle of a jail with cell doors on either side of him. Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Film Theft Nets Four," Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug 1935: A3. Text from negative sleeve: 1906 - Walter Toner Susp. Film Theft 8/28/35 [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935 Handwritten on negative: Walter Toner 8/28/35
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8216 ark:/21198/zz002dg25w
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Criminals--California--Hollywood Jails--California--Hollywood Toner, Walter, b. 1906 or 07
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