Letter from kidnap victim William Gettle to his attorney, Ernest E. Noon, May 1934 (page 2)
Item Overview
- Title
- Letter from kidnap victim William Gettle to his attorney, Ernest E. Noon, May 1934 (page 2)
- Date Created
- May 1934
- Date
- 1934-05
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- Chinese
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
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Gettle was kidnapped from his ranch home in Arcadia on the night of May 9th during a housewarming party, then held in a La Crescenta house by a gang consisting of three men and two women. Police foiled their ransom plot and rescued Gettle on May 14th, following clues recorded on a dictagraph placed on the telephone conversations of a suspected bank robber.
Transcript of page 2 of letter: Please keep cops off until I am returned home. Also see that no bills are marked. I have answered the questions that you ask Percy to have answered. Your friend,W. GettleGive me results.
Page 1 of letter has identifier: uclamss_1429_4877
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
forensic photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- Beverly Hills (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Kidnappings--California--Beverly Hills
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_4878
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ctstx
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- 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
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .