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. This photograph is likely related to the article, "Robinson's Pose Told," Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1936: 13 Thomas H. Robinson, Jr. and his wife kidnapped Alice Speed-Stoll, wife of oil compnay executive Berry V. Stoll, in Louisville, Kentucky and held in Indianapolis for a $50,000 ransom. The Robinsons allegedly spent a brief few months in Santa Monica, California. Mrs. Robinson was apprehended by FBI when she retrieved ransom money. Thomas Robinson, Jr. was arrested in 1936 in Glendale, California. Handwritten on negative: Thos H Robinsons home in Santa Monica 5/13/36 Text from negative sleeve: 5251 -- (kidnapper) Thos H. Robinsons Jr Santa Monica Hideout (Glendale?) (society) Alice Stoll Kidnapping in Louisville 5/13/1936 [stamped:] MAY 17 1936
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