Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 1935
- Date Created
- 1935
- Date
- 1935
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
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Text reads: Miss West We told you before $1000 or you have your face lifted Sunday by 8 o clock or by God we will get your face at Western and Sunset you persona lly Acid Burns
Related to Los Angeles Times article, October 8, 1935, Officers Capture Mae West Death Threat Suspect, Six Others Questioned in $1000 Plot After Seizure of Studio Bus Boy as He Assertedly Picks Up Decoy. Suspected as the author of a series of sinister notes to Mae West, motion-picture actress, threatening death or disfiguration by acid unless she paid $1000, George Janios, 38-year-old bus boy at a Western-avenue studio, last night was in the custody of investigators …
Photograph of print, including letter and envelope, attached to board with tacks, with measurement strip at edge of letter
Envelope reads: Miss Mae West, 570 Ross More, Ravenswood Apt, Hollywood Cal. Postmark: Los Angeles, Calif., Sep 13, 11 AM, 1935. Stamped with note: Fee claimed by office [illegible] first address
Janios was released from custody two days later.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
forensic photographs - Names
- West, Mae
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Extortion--California--Los Angeles
Crime
People
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_0037
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d9794
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
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- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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