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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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 …
Janios was released from custody two days later.
Photograph of 2-page letter on lined paper, 1 side inverted, attached to board with tacks
Text reads: Acid is a holey job it never heal's. We have a air gun wich will shoot 100 yd's and it has a perfect sight we know we would be caught if we walk up to you an throw it in your face so we are playing safe we want $1000 by Tuesday nite a 12 o clock. There is a tin can in front of Warner Bros studio on Sun set Blvd. next to the Remick Music Pub. There a passage there. It's inside the concrete wall. Next to the hydrant tie a white handker chief on faucet so we know it there cross us and lose a million we will send a decoy for it love to Timothy an Brother West love Acid Burns
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_0040
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002d97dp
- 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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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .