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Title: Ernest Senechal is saved from attempting to blow up his apartment, Hollywood, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 18, 1935
1935-09-18
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, "Man Goes Bye-Bye To Jail As Officers Sign In Relief," Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep 1935: A3.
When Ernest Senechal's neighbor Emma Frame smelled gas coming from Senechal's apartment she called the police, but when the police arrived on the scene a drunken Senechal was discovered to have released gas from the lighting fixtures and stove burners and then proceeded to pull a match out after police had broken in, yelling, "Whoops! We'll all go bye-bye together, boys!" before he was tackled by Deputy Sheriff Jurgeson.
Senechal holds a cigarette between his lips as he holds a match up to light it.
Text from negative sleeve: 2067 - Ernest A. Senechal 9/9/35 attempted suicide [stamped:] Sep 18 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Ernest A. Senechal
Handwritten on negative: Ernest A. Senechal 9/9/35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8480
ark:/21198/zz002dgc8s
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Smoking
Suicide prevention--California--Hollywood
Matches
Senechal, Joseph Ernest Albert, 1896-1967
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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