Clara Hitchen walks through the Gettle's yard, Beverly Hills, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Clara Hitchen walks through the Gettle's yard, Beverly Hills, 1934

Date Created

[circa May 9-15, 1934]

Date

1934-05-09/1934-05-15

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

At center, Clara Hitchen is captured in motion walking briskly along a walkway in the Gettle family's yard. She wears a white nurse's uniform. Clara Hitchen approaches the camera as she pumps her arms and looks towards the right. The walkway stretches behind her to the right. At right, two men at the end of the walkway walk towards the right. Landscaped grounds line both sides of the walkway. Low-trimmed hedges line the right side of the walkway and tall grasses, shrubs and trees rise along the left side. In the background at center, a tall wall is visible lining the grounds.
This photograph is related to the article, “GETTLE LAWYER'S DATA MAY IDENTIFY CLIENT'S KIDNAPERS: He Returns From Mystery Trip and Declares ‘Important Information’ Received; Victim's Wife Authorizes Meeting Any Ransom Demand,” Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1934: 1, and subsequent articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: GETTLE, WILLIAM F. KIDNAP CASE
Handwritten on a note accompanying negatives (Item Ark: 21198/zz002ctrvz): Woman in white, grab shots Clara Hitchen, nurse | 3 people walking along sidewalk - Mr + Mrs Delpha Barr and George Melovitch [sic] Melovitch [sic] is big man with mustache x | House at 723 Linden Dr., Bev Hills | 3 men on steps of house l to r: - Dist Atty Fitts Ernest Noon, contactman Chas. C. Blair, Ch of police, Bev Hills | picture of 'Rags' the gettle dog

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Hitchen, Clara
Gettle, William F., 1887-1941

Location

Beverly Hills (Calif.)

Longitude

34.072495

Latitude

-118.416677

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Kidnappings--California--Beverly Hills
Nurses--American--California--Beverly Hills
Kidnappings--California--Arcadia