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Description:: View into the cluttered bedroom and bathroom of the house of Luella Pearl Hammer where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Textured black leather bag with handle and clasp at top, flat bottom, on edge of round table with bookcase in background. Bag is wrapped with 2 thin ropes and affixed with address label from Fred W. Wolf to Alfred Allen, and shipping label marked Collect.
Date:: December, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View into the cluttered dining room of the house of Luella Pearl Hammer (623 Buckeye St.) where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Law enforcement official with the Mary Skeele kidnapping case examining a hole dug in the ground as he holds a piece of string
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Law enforcement official with the Mary Skeele kidnapping case reading a note at a curbside field. The note reads, partially, "Across Street."
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 2-page handwritten letter, photographed pinned to board, from Fay Sudow, addressed to Fred Allen, 711 Central Bldg., Main and 6th St., Los Angeles, Cal., with 2 envelopes, 1 postmarked Chicago, Ill., Oct 16, 5 PM, 1920, with the logo of Morrison Hotel and Terrace Garden, Chicago, and 1 postmarked Plymouth, Ill., Oct 27, 2 PM, 1920. Fay Sudow's attorney was named Alfred W. Allen, with an office at 485 Central Bldg.
Date:: 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Note posted on wooden wall or fence reading: Suckness, Do Not Disturb --- Leave Name & Adress, or Message under door.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mary B. Skeele, wife of Walter Skeele, the Professor of Organ and Dean of the College of Music at the University of Southern California was kidnapped in 1933. The ransom was paid and Mrs. Skeele was returned unharmed. A former student was found guilty of the crime.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Piece of paper with writing relating to the murder case of Dr. Leonard Siever: [illegible] 11:30. Rockwell. [faded writing] [illegible]
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Police officer with the Mary Skeele kidnapping pointing to the door frame of a bungalow house related to the kidnapping
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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