Dr. Ralph Wagner discussing extortion threats with Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz and Joseph E. P. Dunn, Santa Clarita, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Dr. Ralph Wagner discussing extortion threats with Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz and Joseph E. P. Dunn, Santa Clarita, 1935

Date Created

August 5, 1935

Date

1935-08-05

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph is similar to a different photograph published with the article noted. The caption of the photograph published with the article reads: “Dr. Ralph Waldo Wagner, psychologist, astrologer and sports impresario, is shown here telling Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, left, and Joseph E. P. Dunn, right, head of the local division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, details of an extortioner’s [sic] plot demanding $10,000 from him on threat of death”.
This photograph may be associated with the article, “Plotters Threaten Death-to Rancher; Demand $10,000: Extortioners [sic] Peril Rich Sportsman but Evade Intricate Man-Trap of Two Score Officers DOCTOR THREATENED IN EXTORTION PLOT,” Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 1935.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Joseph Dunn, Ralph Wagner, Eugene Biscailuz.
Text from negative sleeve: 1445—Joseph Dunn, Ralph Wagner, Eugene Biscailuz, Wagner Xtortion [sic] plot. [Stamped:] AUG 8-1935.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Dunn, Joseph E.P.
Biscailuz, Eugene W., 1883-1969
Wagner, Ralph Waldo

Location

Santa Clarita (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Ranchers--California--Santa Clarita
Extortion--California--Santa Clarita
Law enforcement--California--Santa Clarita