Kidnap victim Mary B. Skeele with detectives, blindfolded, at the bungalow house where she was held, Pasadena, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Kidnap victim Mary B. Skeele with detectives, blindfolded, at the bungalow house where she was held, Pasadena, 1933

Date Created

February 9, 1933

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Kidnapping victim Mary B. Skeele, wearing coat, face obscured by blindfold, outside door of the bungalow house of Luella Pearl Hammer where she had been held, with son Franklin B. Skeele behind her holding her elbows, Detective Joe Taylor at left, and 2 or 3 other men visible through doorway inside house, with dirt backyard, trash, tree, and potted plants foreground and background
A similar photograph appears with the article, "Net Tightens on Couple in Skeele Kidnap Case, Ransom Note Typewriter Found; Man Suspect Ex-Convict; Grand Jury Action Sought, with caption: Scenes in Sensational Drama Aftermath of Holding for Ransom Wife of S.C. Dean of Music. Blindfolded, Mrs. Skeele is taken through house and grounds of the Pasadena home by Chief of Detectives Taylor, left, and her son, Franklin Skeele," Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1933

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10144 - Mrs. Mary B. Skeeles - 1934 Kidnaping - (Return to Library [Stamped:] Dec 19 [1934?] [1937?]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Crime
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
People

Names

Skeele, Franklin Bosworth, 1893-1969
Taylor, Joseph, 1878-1955
Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Longitude

34.15987615763220

Latitude

-118.13755139708500

Resource type

still image