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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
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.
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.
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.
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
Emptage, Donna M., 1896-1984
Ivey, Herbert D., 1885-1966
Anderson, Leroy, d. 1935
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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