Walter Toner is arrested for stealing film negatives, Hollywood, 1935

Title: Walter Toner is arrested for stealing film negatives, Hollywood, 1935
Date Created: September 4, 1935
Date: 1935-09-04
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Having lived in Los Angeles for less than a month, Toner and Van Doren, along with their wives Alice and Elizabeth, were arrested on the grounds of burglarizing 2,500,000 feet of film negatives from a film laboratory in Parlin, N.J. Upon initial questioning both men denied knowledge of the burglary but later Toner ascertained he had been contacted by someone to sell the raw film, but he did not know the material had been stolen.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Film Theft Nets Four," Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug 1935: A3.
Walter Toner stands alone with his hands in his pockets in the middle of a jail with cell doors on either side of him.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1906 - Walter Toner Susp. Film Theft 8/28/35 [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935
Handwritten on negative: Walter Toner 8/28/35

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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