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. Gretchen Wahlen, heir to a $50,000 estate, has been missing since last Sunday - her attorney Leslie Heap relates to police the threatening letters Mrs. Wahlen had been receiving from an unknown sender. A close-up photograph of one of the threats that Mrs. Wahlen received. In white letters "GRACE WAHLEN MERRIT OCEAN PARK JONES. HTG. CALI." was addressed. The threat reads in all capital letters as "Get going U Have Ben Warned". It was written on what seems to be a packet of information for cremating the dead. Photograph related to the article, "Fear Felt For Widow," Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar 1936: A12. Handwritten on negative: Letter in Grace C Wahlen Story 3/10/36 Text from negative sleeve: 3914 - Leslie L. Heap, atty Letters in Grace C Wahlen Story 3/10/36 [stamped:] Mar 12 1936
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