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Donna Emptage standing in the backroom of a building previously rented by attempted kidnapper Leroy Anderson, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Donna Emptage standing in the backroom of a building previously rented by attempted kidnapper Leroy Anderson, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1935
1935-10
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.
Donna Emptage, who unwittingly rented the hideout of Leroy Anderson (alias Jack Williams), attempted kidnapper of millionaire San Marino banker Herbert D. Ivey. Emptage stands in a room with an iron-frame bed and other furnishings. This room was located in the rear of the storefront building previously rented by kidnapper Anderson.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Second Man Now Hunted in Ivey Plot: Hideout Reveals Accomplice. Chains, Money and Arms in Slain Ransom Seeker's Quarters Disclosed," 13 Oct. 1935: 1.
Text from negative sleeve: 2704. Mrs. Steven Emptage and house at 1358 S. Eastern Ave., in which kidnaper planned to hold banker Ivy captive.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10305
ark:/21198/zz002hb7v3
Subject: Crimes--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Anderson, Leroy, d. 1935
Emptage, Donna M., 1896-1984
Ivey, Herbert D., 1885-1966
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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