Handwritten envelope from extortionist to Mae West, 1935

Description: Envelope reads: Miss Mae West, 570 N-Rossmore. Av, Ravenswoods Apt, Hollywood Cal, [speci]al delivery. Postmark: Los Angeles Ca, Arcade An [illegible], Sep. 2, 130 AM, 1935
Janios was released from custody two days later.
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, images of front and back of envelope, with measuring tape at edge, attached to board with tacks
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2475, NBox6, Oct 22 1935, Extortion Letters sent to Mae West, 10-10-35

Genre: news photographs
forensic photographs
cellulose nitrate film
correspondence
Names: West, Mae
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Extortion--California--Los Angeles
Crime

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_0039
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d97c5
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