US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Two convicted murderers of Folsom State Prison rescued a baby linnet and a newborn kitten from hunger and malnutrition and nursed them back to health. The cat and bird live in the prison's print shop in complete harmony. Cat sits upright while a bird he has developed a friendship with rests atop a paw. Photograph appears with the article, "Cat and Bird in Prison Form Odd Attachment," Los Angeles Times, 05 Mar. 1936: A1. Text from newspaper caption: This isn't the Cat and the Canary, it's the Cat and the Linnet, but it's a real, hair-raising murder melodrama as you'll find in the last chapter. Both the cat and the linnet are pets, trained from infancy, by two murderers serving life terms at Folsom Prison and forming strange link of fellowship. Text from negative sleeve: 3877 - Cat and bird 3/5/36 [stamped:] Mar 6 1936 Handwritten on negative: From: Warden Court Smith
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