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Exterior of the storefront hideout of Leroy Anderson, who attempted to kidnap banker Herbert D. Ivey, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Exterior of the storefront hideout of Leroy Anderson, who attempted to kidnap banker Herbert D. Ivey, 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.
Photograph of a storefront building located at 1358 S. Eastern Ave. The location was the hideout of Leroy Anderson (alias Jack Williams), who attempted to kidnap millionaire San Marino banker Herbert D. Ivey. Anderson was wounded in a police shoot-out on May 25. He died of his wounds in early June.
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_10306
ark:/21198/zz002hb7wm
Subject: Criminals--California--Los Angeles
Storefronts
Ivey, Herbert D., 1885-1966
Anderson, Leroy, d. 1935
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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