Genre: forensic photographs / Language: No linguistic content / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection and OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Gettle was kidnapped from his ranch home in Arcadia on the night of May 9th during a housewarming party, then held in a La Crescenta house by a gang consisting of three men and two women. Police foiled their ransom plot and rescued Gettle on May 14th, following clues recorded on a dictagraph placed on the telephone conversations of a suspected bank robber.
Date:: May 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Former Redondo Beach school superintendent Elliot B. Thomas has been sentenced to serve one to fourteen years at San Quentin Penitentiary for the forgery of pay vouchers drawn against the County Treasury. He has misappropriated approximately $10,000.
Date:: November 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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