Blayney F. Matthews defends his client George Janios, Los Angeles, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Blayney F. Matthews defends his client George Janios, Los Angeles, 1935
- Date Created
- October 8, 1935
- Date
- 1935-10-08
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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The two gentlemen sit at a table together, Matthews pointing at Janios.
Photograph appears with the article, "West Plot Clew Given," Los Angeles Times, 09 Oct 1935: 2.
Although Janios has been apprehended under suspicion for sending Mae West letters threatening death or disfiguration by acid if she did not send large sums of money District Attorney Matthews doubts Janios' guilt because of his limited grasp of the English language. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: 2439 - L to R Blaney Mathews (Dist Atty. Investigator) George Janios 10- 8 -35 Mae West Extortion [stamped:] Oct 15 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Blayney Matthews, left, chief special investigator for the District Attorney, is shown questioning George Janios, suspect in the Mae West extortion attempt. Matthews sought names of suspected accomplices.
Handwritten on negative: Blaney Mathews- George Janios 10-8-35
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_8877
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dgtzd
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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