Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Raymond, Leslie Ray, 1893-1935 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Text from negative sleeve: 3039. 12-6-35. Ray Raymond & copies of suicide note left by him. [Stamped:] DEC 11 1935.
Date:: December 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Last page of the suicide note left by Leslie Ray Raymond, who killed himself by asphyxiation by inhalation of automobile emission. He had been a radio announcer in Oakland, California, known as "Brother Bob." In his suicide note he confesses having an affair with his niece.
Date:: December 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reported in the article, "Suicide Ends Love Mix-Up. Radio Announcer's Farewell to Wife Hints Niece as 'Other Woman,'" Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 1935: 3.
Date:: December 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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