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Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 3rd and 1st pages, 1935

Description:
Related to Los Angeles Times article, October 8, 1935, Officers Capture Mae West Death Threat Suspect, Six Others Questioned in $1000 Plot After Seizure of Studio Bus Boy as He Assertedly Picks Up Decoy. Suspected as the author of a series of sinister notes to Mae West, motion-picture actress, threatening death or disfiguration by acid unless she paid $1000, George Janios, 38-year-old bus boy at a Western-avenue studio, last night was in the custody of investigators …
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 3rd and 1st pages, 1935

Letter from kidnap victim William Gettle to his attorney, Ernest E. Noon, May 1934 (page 2)

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Letter from kidnap victim William Gettle to his attorney, Ernest E. Noon, May 1934 (page 2)

Second letter in Marty Rosen shooting investigation, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Letter was written to Larceny Bill. Marty Rosen appeared to be involved in some nefarious people and dealings. He discussed his plans to possibly come back to Brooklyn. In the letter he stated: "Did you find out of he went to his brother? If he did, then fuck him anyway with his brother, because if I am back in ... in another week or so, I'll just have to walk up to his brother's office with my rat-a-tat-tat and mow them all down, you know me bill Im built that way ---- on pencial & paper only-ha !ha!"
Date:
October 2, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Second letter in Marty Rosen shooting investigation, Los Angeles, 1935

Address on letter from kidnap victim William Gettle to his attorney, Ernest E. Noon, May 1934 (page 2)

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Address on letter from kidnap victim William Gettle to his attorney, Ernest E. Noon, May 1934 (page 2)

Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 1935

Description:
Related to Los Angeles Times article, October 8, 1935, Officers Capture Mae West Death Threat Suspect, Six Others Questioned in $1000 Plot After Seizure of Studio Bus Boy as He Assertedly Picks Up Decoy. Suspected as the author of a series of sinister notes to Mae West, motion-picture actress, threatening death or disfiguration by acid unless she paid $1000, George Janios, 38-year-old bus boy at a Western-avenue studio, last night was in the custody of investigators …
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 1935

Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 2nd page, 1935

Description:
Related to Los Angeles Times article, October 8, 1935, Officers Capture Mae West Death Threat Suspect, Six Others Questioned in $1000 Plot After Seizure of Studio Bus Boy as He Assertedly Picks Up Decoy. Suspected as the author of a series of sinister notes to Mae West, motion-picture actress, threatening death or disfiguration by acid unless she paid $1000, George Janios, 38-year-old bus boy at a Western-avenue studio, last night was in the custody of investigators …
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 2nd page, 1935

Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 1935

Description:
Text reads: Acid is a horrible thing to throw in one's face so beau tiful in the height s of her career you can lose a $1000 or a 1,000,000 we are determind to get it. We want that money no later than nine oclock Monday nite at the other end of Warner Bros Studio in the last tree palm tree if the extortion squad is there we will by our oth get you and spoil your face for all time you know where the last tree is by the gate on the corner stick it in the tree by the palns and dont try to stop who gets it tie a handkerchief on the wall there opposite the tree if you fail to meet our demands. We will shoot a air gun at you within ten da's and we are good shots OVER
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 1935

Police dusting for fingerprints in a Ford coup, possibly related to the Hickman kidnap and murder case, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
William Edward Hickman, wanted for the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, was captured in Echo, Oregon, after an eight-day manhunt. In his initial confession (given while in Oregon) he named an alleged accomplice who drove a Ford coup. That detail is noted in the article, "Detailed Confession Made by "The Fox": Amazing Account of Conversing With Detectives and Following Police Cars at Rendezvous After Kidnapping Given by Hickman," Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 1927: 1.
Date:
1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Police dusting for fingerprints in a Ford coup, possibly related to the Hickman kidnap and murder case, Los Angeles, 1927

Court document in the form of photographs of an area near an oil field near Beatty, Nevada, operated by Julian Petroleum Corporation, labeled "Beatty," Nevada, circa 1926

Description:
Another court document for a C. C. Julian case has a caption identifying it as an exhibit in a case in Judge Doran's court (image ark no. 21198/zz002cv8xp). Proceedings against C. C. Julian in Judge Doran's court are reported in the Los Angeles Times from 1926 through 1928.
Date:
[circa 1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Court document in the form of photographs of an area near an oil field near Beatty, Nevada, operated by Julian Petroleum Corporation, labeled "Beatty," Nevada, circa 1926

Ray Pinker and Robert Seares examine a bullet hole in a coat, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

Description:
For nearly 40 years Ray Pinker worked for the Los Angeles Police Scientific Investigation Division, the first police forensic lab in the country. The Dragnet character "Raymond Pinker" was named after him. He worked on numerous famous cases, including the Black Dahlia case. Robert Seares would later become Pasadena's chief of police.
Date:
[between 1929-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Ray Pinker and Robert Seares examine a bullet hole in a coat, Los Angeles, 1929-1939

First letter in Marty Rosen shooting investigation, 1935

Description:
Letter to Marty's sister. Marty Rosen was a shooting victim supposedly shot by a gangster. First few lines: "business again, I have a man with plenty of money and I think he's interested in putting me into business again with plenty of financial-backing, it may take a little time, but if I don't prosper shortly, you can expect me back in the city in the very near future..."
Date:
October 2, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
First letter in Marty Rosen shooting investigation, 1935

Leo Patrick Kelley's fingerprints as forensic evidence in the Leo Patrick Kelley murder case, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Two photographs of fingerprints pinned on a wall with a thumbtack. The photo on the right is labeled with "L.P.K." on the bottom left. The fingerprints were used as forensic evidence in the Leo Patrick Kelly murder case. Leo Patrick Kelly was tried for the murder of Myrtle Mellus. Reported in "Fingerprint Brings Order for New Search of Mellus Home as Grand Jury Indicts Kelly: HUNT EXPECTED TO TRIP SLAYER Officers Think Evidence of Identity to be Found Inquisitors Hear Husband Tell of Discovering Body Quest for Mystery Woman Still Proves Vain," Los Angeles Times, 09 Aug. 1928: A2.
Date:
August 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Leo Patrick Kelley's fingerprints as forensic evidence in the Leo Patrick Kelley murder case, Los Angeles, 1928

Dr. Walter Hodges, Aida Zuniga and Detective Clark at the La Vina Sanatorium, Altadena, 1931

Description:
At the La Vina Sanatorium where murder suspect Winnie Ruth Judd hid for a few days, Dr. Walter Hodges, patient Aida Zuniga and Detective Lieutenant Clark talk in Ms. Zuniga's room. Reported in "VERIFIED; FLOUTED: Mrs. Judd's Story Stirs Storm Her Version of Events in Phoenix Branded False by Prosecutor Account of Movements Here Prove Accurate as Her Hide-Out is Found," Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 1931: 1.
Date:
October 25, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Dr. Walter Hodges, Aida Zuniga and Detective Clark at the La Vina Sanatorium, Altadena, 1931

Letter from kidnap victim William Gettle to his attorney, Ernest E. Noon, May 1934 (page 1)

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Letter from kidnap victim William Gettle to his attorney, Ernest E. Noon, May 1934 (page 1)

Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 1935

Description:
Text reads: We seen your sign it looked like a trap. You put that money next to the fire plug over the wall in the bushes tonite and leave it there in a tin can a small can of your own if anyone stops the man who come's for it this town will be too hot to hold you as he will not know who we are and we dont joke we seen Timothy without you last nite at the fights remenber pleasure man in New York. We knew you then you sent one guy up the river for publicity. So dont try it again. Acid Burns
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Handwritten letter from extortionist to Mae West, 1935

Ransom note sent to Perry M. Parker, father of kidnap victim Marion Parker, from William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Marion Parker was kidnapped for ransom on December 15, 1927 by William Edward Hickman. Two days later, Marion's remains were found by her father, Perry Parker, on the lawn of 432 S. Manhattan Place- just moments after exchanging $1500 for Marion, whom he presumed to be alive. Hickman was ultimately tried and sentenced to death for the crime. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:
1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Ransom note sent to Perry M. Parker, father of kidnap victim Marion Parker, from William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1927

Donna Emptage standing in the backroom of a building previously rented by attempted kidnapper Leroy Anderson, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Donna Emptage, who unwittingly rented the hideout of Leroy Anderson (alias Jack Williams), attempted kidnapper of millionaire San Marino banker Herbert D. Ivey. Emptage stands in a room with an iron-frame bed and other furnishings. This room was located in the rear of the storefront building previously rented by kidnapper Anderson.
Date:
October 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Donna Emptage standing in the backroom of a building previously rented by attempted kidnapper Leroy Anderson, Los Angeles, 1935

George Contreras, county investigator, and Asa Keyes, district attorney, at a crime scene in a basement, Los Angeles, 1924-1929

Description:
Photograph of George Contreras (left), Los Angeles County investigator, holding what appear to be bone fragments, and district attorney Asa Keyes, seated behind a trench in a basement. A shovel with torn fabric draped over it is on the left and a man behind them holds a candle.
Date:
[between 1924-1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
George Contreras, county investigator, and Asa Keyes, district attorney, at a crime scene in a basement, Los Angeles, 1924-1929

Los Angeles police sergeant Howard L. Barlow with fingerprint evidence collected from home of kidnapping and murder suspect William Hickman, 1927

Description:
Related to the article “Accused Slayer’s Abode Gives Evidence of Hurried Departure, Science Proves Crime Can’t Pay, Detective Chief Credits Fingerprint Check, Sergt. Barlow’s Research Verifies Clews, Scar on Thumb Brings Hunt to Arrest Hickman.” Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 1927: 3
Date:
1927
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Los Angeles police sergeant Howard L. Barlow with fingerprint evidence collected from home of kidnapping and murder suspect William Hickman, 1927

Adams Pharmacy ledger documenting the purchase of poison by Elmer M. Archer, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Ledger documenting the purchase of sodium arsenate for 10 cents by Elmer M. Archer at the Adams Pharmacy in Santa Monica on January 24, 1926. Archer purchased the poison under the name Joe Jacks. Archer was in love with the newlywed Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt and tried to convince her to poison her new husband, W. H. Bowers.
Date:
March 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Adams Pharmacy ledger documenting the purchase of poison by Elmer M. Archer, Los Angeles, 1926