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Title: Barton Sewell third and final extortion note, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 12, 1935
1935-01-12
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
The note: "Since following instructions so nicely have money at Black Cat Bar, Tijuana at 10 pm Sat.p.m. Nov. 3 with black chauffeur at wheel of same car. Any crooks and it is to bad for you and mother."
Barton Sewell received a note before this demanding $25000 or himself and his mother would be harmed.
Related to the article, "PLOT PERILS MILLIONAIRE: Barton Sewell Threatened in Letters Demanding He Pay $25,000," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 1935: 1.
Text from negative sleeve: Sewell, Barton extortion 4440 - [stamped:] Mar 25 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13621
ark:/21198/zz002hnvd3
Subject: Extortion--California--Los Angeles
Sewell, Barton, 1905-1953
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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