Montecito Drive, ransom money drop area in Mary B. Skeele kidnap case, Los Angeles, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Montecito Drive, ransom money drop area in Mary B. Skeele kidnap case, Los Angeles, 1933

Date Created

1933

Date

1933

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Sharply curving street in sparsely populated hilly area, with hills, cliffs, and wash at left, man standing at edge of bank in center, 4 or 5 houses in background
This photograph, with numbers and dotted line added, appears with Los Angeles Times photo spread, February 7, 1933, Mrs. Skeele Ransom Demands Told in Notes

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Montecito Drive--indicated in the first note as the place to leave the $10,000. (1)--Location of the tile where additional instructions as to the method of depositing the money were found. This note which appears on the right, told the money bearers to cross the street to the edge of a bank and there they would find further instructions. (2)--On the edge of the bank a hole dug in the earth was discovered. There was an empty cracker box with a string attached, which dropped down the side of the bank, and in the box a final note reproduced below. (3)--The string ran to the bottom of the precipice and then trailed off buried under loose dirt.
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

forensic photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Montecito Drive (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Environment
Crime