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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

Address book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Address book of Dr. Leonard Siever, open to p. 97 with last names beginning with the letter "M."
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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
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Apartment of murder victim Gladys G. Fair, Long Beach, 1935

Description:: Photograph of the Long Beach apartment belonging to Gladys Glena Fair (Cooper Arms Apartments, 455 E Ocean Blvd.), murder victim. A man's arm (probably a detective's arm) is partially viewed behind the open door.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Assailant William Hardy and detective Joe Filkas retracing the scene of the crime, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: In 1935, William Hardy confessed to the beating of his half-sister Helen Katherine Williams with a hammer. The photograph depicts Hardy in handcuffs retracing the event with investigators,
Date:: February 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Assailant William Hardy with detectives, retracing the crime scene, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: In 1935, William Hardy confessed to the beating of his half-sister Helen Katherine Williams with a hammer. The photograph depicts Hardy in handcuffs retracing the event with investigators,
Date:: February 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Bedroom of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1934

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

Black leather bag obtained as evidence in Fay Sudow murder case, Los Angeles, 1920

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

Bullets used as evidence in David Clark murder trial, Los Angeles, 1931

Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Bullets used as evidence in David H. Clark's murder trial, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: Three bullets used as evidence in David H. Clark's murder trial.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Confessed murderers Koji Hatamoto and Ayako Kanda with detectives at the burial cite of Molly Kanda, Torrance, 1932

Description:: Photograph corresponds to article, "Japanese Married Woman and Lover Confess Murder and Burial of Child," Los Angeles Times, 8 Jun. 1932: A2.
Date:: June 7, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Cooper Arms Apartments, view of fire escapes from street level, Long Beach, 1935

Description:: Photograph of the Cooper Arms Apartments (455 E Ocean Blvd.), view of the building's fire escapes from street level. The apartments were the home of Gladys Glena Fair, murder victim.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Copy of Charles Crawford's permit to carry a gun, 1931

Description:: Picture of a copy of Charles Crawford's permit to carry a gun. Photo appears with the article, "Clark Trail Followed: Calls on Phone Reported Accused Killer of Crawford and Spencer Denies Talk on Day of Murder Careful Study of Victim's Books Yields Slip Showing Fear of Slayer," Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1931: 1.
Date:: May 26, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Copy of grand jury exhibit photograph of Darby Day Jr.'s facial acid burns, Los Angeles, 1925

Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Copy of grand jury exhibit photograph of Darby Day Jr.'s facial acid burns, Los Angeles, 1925

Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

David H. Clark's gun, bullets and shells, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: David H. Clark was tried for murder.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Deputy coroners T.E. Russell and Y. Ewers carry a trunk where a murder victim was found, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Photograph depicts the trunk where the body of Rose Marie Happel was found (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times). She was murdered by her husband, John H. Happel.
Date:: December 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Detectives entering the bungalow of John H. and Rose Marie Happel, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: John H. Happel was arrested for the murder of his wife, Rose Marie Happel (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times). The case received attention due to Happel hiding his wife's body in a trunk. He eventually confessed to the murder.
Date:: December 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Detective Sergeant Sibley standing at the door leading to Gladys G. Fair's apartment, Long Beach, 1935

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Woman Dies by Bullet: Found Slain in Bathtub Visitor to Rooms of Naval Aide at Long Beach Hunted by Police," 21 Aug. 1935: 3.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Detective Sergeant Sibley standing near the bathtub where Gladys G. Fair's body was found, Long Beach, 1935

Description:: Detective Sergeant Sibley photographed standing near the bathtub where Gladys G. Fair was found. Fair was shot in her Long Beach apartment (Cooper Arms Apartments, 455 E Ocean Blvd.).
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Detective Sergeant W. L. Woodruff dusting for fingerprints at the Gladys G. Fair crime scene, Long Beach, 1935

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Sister Given Death Quiz: Woman Will Be Brought South Kin of Mrs. Gladys G. Fair, Slain at Long Beach, Found in North," Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 1935: A1.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dining room of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1933

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

Dr. Benjamin Blank and Sergeant Howard L. Barlow during the trial of William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: William Edward Hickman was executed in October 1928 for the kidnapping and murder of 12-year old Marion Parker. In this image, Sergeant Barlow appears to be examining the handprint of the accused while Dr. Blank looks on.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dress draped over a chair in Gladys G. Fair's apartment, Long Beach, 1935

Description:: Photograph of dress draped over a chair in the apartment of murder victim Gladys Glena Fair (at the Cooper Arms Apartments (455 E. Ocean Blvd.).
Date:: August 21, 1935
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

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

Exterior of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1933

Description:: Exterior of the bungalow house (623 Buckeye St.) of Luella Pearl Hammer, with river stone retaining wall, where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Exterior of the bungalow house where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held, Pasadena, 1933

Description:: Exterior of the bungalow house o Luella Pearl Hammer (623 Buckeye St.), with river stone retaining wall, where kidnapping victim Mary Skeele was held
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Firearms used as evidence in the David H. Clark murder trial, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: Seven firearms, varying in sizes, placed in a row with tags attached to them. They are placed on top of the witness stand.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Forged checks in Elliot Thomas case, Los Angeles, 1932

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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Grand jury exhibit photograph of Darby Day Jr.'s facial acid burns, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: Copy print.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Open guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever with written entries from attendees of a September 22, 1929 event and an August 17, 1930 event titled: Afternoon and Evening with the Artist Students' Endowment."
Date:: 4 x 5 inches
1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Open guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever with written entries from attendees of June 12, 1930 event and a June 12, 1931 event
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Open guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever with written entries from attendees of an August 3, 1929 event
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Open guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever with written entries from attendees of an undated event
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Open guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever with written entries from attendees of a September 22, 1929 event
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Front cover of a guest book belonging to Dr. Leonard Siever
Date:: December 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Dr. Leonard Siever, a prominent Pasadena dentist and socialite, was murdered on December 14, 1933 as he preparing to enter his parked car. The case was never solved.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Dr. Leonard Siever, a prominent Pasadena dentist and socialite, was murdered on December 14, 1933 as he preparing to enter his parked car. The case was never solved.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Dr. Leonard Siever, a prominent Pasadena dentist and socialite, was murdered on December 14, 1933 as he preparing to enter his parked car. The case was never solved
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Open guest book of Dr. Leonard Siever with written entries from attendees of a June 12, 1931 event
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Gun thought to have been used by Winnie Ruth Judd, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: Gun thought to have been used by Winnie Ruth Judd to murder Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson in Phoenix, Arizona in October 1931. Photo appears with the article "Police Find Lethal Instruments," Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 1931: 8.
Date:: [circa October 20, 1931]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Handwritten draft for a letter of invitation by Dr. Leonard Siever, 1934

Description:: Handwritten, undated draft for a letter to invite someone to a party by Dr. Leonard Siever
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Handwritten whimsical note by Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Whimsical undated note by Dr. Leonard Siever that begins: "Try this cross word puzzle..." Signed: Leonard S.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Jack Boykin and Police Captain Owen Murphy, Long Beach, 1935

Description:: Photograph of John "Jack" Boykin (left), son of accused murderer Florence Boykin Dowling, standing near two parked cars with Captain Owen Murphy of Long Beach Police Department.
Date:: August 21, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Jewelry found with Monte Carlo robbery suspects, 1935

Description:: Related to the article, "Sea Robbery Trial Looms. Bail Fixed at $25,000. Officers Fear for Safety of Man Who Assertedly Made Confession." Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 1935: A8.
Date:: August 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Law enforcement official with the Mary Skeele kidnapping case examining a hole dug in the ground, 1933

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

Law enforcement official with the Mary Skeele kidnapping case reading a note at a curbside field, 1933

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

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

Letter from murder victim Fay Sudow to Fred Allen (Alfred W. Allen), 1920

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

Letter written to Dr. Leonard Siever from Frank B. Fagerburg, 1933

Description:: Letter written to Dr. Leonard Siever from Frank B. Fagerburg, minister of the First Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California, dated July 21, 1932.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Lieutenant Detective Eugene Bechtel with murder weapons used by Winnie Ruth Judd, Los Angeles, 1931

Description:: Photo appears with the article "Police Find Lethal Instruments," Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 1931: 8.
Date:: [circa October 20, 1931]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles police captain Howard L. Barlow inspecting fingerprint images, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Howard L. Barlow, in suit and tie, leaning on table, holding pencil and enlarged fingerprint images marked P. Eberlee, with tables, papers, and typewriter in background
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles police captain Howard L. Barlow taking fingerprints, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Related to the article “Fingerprint Work Told, Los Angeles Bureau Leads Nation in Science of Identification.” Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 1934: A3
Date:: March 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Los Angeles police sergeant Howard L. Barlow inspecting car steering wheel, 1927

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Murder Suspect Hunted After Wrecking of Car, Hickman Sought Near Redlands; Lair of Girl Slayer Located; Formal Complaint Issued.” Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 1927, with caption: “Perfect Crime” Collapses Under Scrutiny of Police Experts. Sgt. H.L. Barlow of the Identification Bureau Checking Fingerprints on Chrysler Mirror With Those on File in Department. The article states: The trail of a man, believed to be William Edward Hickman, 18 years of age, accused kidnaper and killer Marion Parker, 12-year-old school girl was picked up last night …
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

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

Man inspecting cracker box in hole, ransom drop-off point in Mary B. Skeele kidnap case, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: This photograph appears with the photo spread, "Mrs. Skeele Ransom Demands Told in Notes," Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1933
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Montecito Drive, ransom money drop area in Mary B. Skeele kidnap case, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:: Sharply curving street in sparsely populated hilly area, with hills, cliffs, and wash at left, man standing at edge of bank in center, 4 or 5 houses in background
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Note posted on wooden wall or fence, forensic photograph for the Mary Skeele kidnapping case, 1933

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

Officials working on the Mary Skeele kidnapping case at a desk with open cans of food, 1933

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

Page 1 of an autobiographical statement by Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Page one, of three, of a typed autobiographical statement by Dr. Leonard Siever dated September 14, 1933.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Page 1 of an undated letter to Dr. Leonard Siever from Peg, 1933

Description:: Page 1 of an undated, handwritten 3-page letter of apology to Dr. Leonard Siever from Peg. The letter is written on the stationary of the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Page 2 of an autobiographical statement by Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Page one, of three, of a typed autobiographical statement by Dr. Leonard Siever dated September 14, 1933.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Page 2 of an undated letter to Dr. Leonard Siever from Peg, 1933

Description:: Page 2 of an undated, handwritten 3-page letter of apology to Dr. Leonard Siever from Peg. The letter is written on the stationary of the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Page 3 of an autobiographical statement by Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

Description:: Page three, of three, of a typed autobiographical statement by Dr. Leonard Siever dated September 14, 1933.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Page 3 of an undated letter to Dr. Leonard Siever from Peg, 1933

Description:: Page 3 of an undated, handwritten 3-page letter of apology to Dr. Leonard Siever from Peg. The letter is written on the stationary of the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Photograph of Leonard Siever on a page from the graduation program for the University of Southern California, College of Dentistry, 1917

Description:: Photograph of dentist Dr. Leonard Siever in cap and gown, and two other students, on a page from the graduation program for the University of Southern California, College of Dentistry. The student above him is named Jack and the student below him is named Ronald (possibly Ronald B. Slater).
Date:: 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Picture of the Security First National Bank of Los Angeles registry for April, 1931

Description:: Photograph of the registry for April 1st and 2nd at the Security First National Bank of Los Angeles. Names are written on both pages from 8am to 5pm. This may have been used during David H. Clark's murder trial in 1931.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Piece of paper with writing relating to the murder case of Dr. Leonard Siever, 1933

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

Playing card sent between Charles Johnston and Dorothy Smith, Monrovia, 1934

Description:: Playing card sent between Charles Johnston and Dorothy Smith, before Johnston murdered Smith. Collected by Los Angeles police investigators.
Date:: April 16, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police officer with the Mary Skeele kidnapping case pointing to a door frame, 1933

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

Ransom instructions, Mary B. Skeele kidnap case, 1933

Description:: Note with partial ransom instructions, on 2 pieces of paper, mostly typewritten, partially created with cut-out words and letters, some portions obscured with tape or paper, some words struck out with crayon or pencil, pinned to wooden background, reading: -Leave 5:30. P. M. - continuing through HIGHLAND PARK a nd past SYCAMORE GROVE PARK to AVENUE #43 (forty-three); turning to the left on AVENUE 43 and going up the hill to GRIFFIN AVENUE and turning to the left on car line and following to the end of line. Here you will see the road turns to the right and starts up the winding road to the top of the hill. This is where Montecito Drive starts. Follow this road all the way up the hill. You will notice a retaining wall on the left about 8 feet high, this will follow along all the way to the top on your left hand side. Do not turn off this road. Just follow the winding road all the way. Keeping the wall on your left. Go all the way to the top following the wall all the time. When you arrive upon the hill you will see that the wall continues on for a short distance, but you follow on around the wall and and the end of it At Curve On The Right notice instruction under TILE in under Box. This is the place where you will stop your car and be sure there is no one following you or around there or anyone coming towards you You should act as if you are looking at your tires or something so as to not create suspicion or let anyone know that you are there. You see it is necessary that you are careful of this money so no one else might pick it up first. Otherwise you would be out of the money and the wife too. But you can be careful in placing it. We will try our best to get it. After placing the money then you drive on around the road to the first road turning to the right down the hill. This will take you down the other side of the hill to BROADWAY then you can turn and get back. This is a complete worded map and should be easily followed. We are depending on you to follow it in every detail and move and hope that you understand the seriousness of it all if you do not do as we direct. We have the upper hand at this time and we intend to see that you do as your told. You will be protected in every way if you do as we say and you movements will be a safeguard for your wife if you follow theses instructions. If however we notice any move or word to the contrary, well its just to BAD. AGAIN WE IMPRESS UPON YOU******BE CAREFUL*******. --------******_-------- ----------********------------ YOUR WIFE WILL NOT BE RETURNED -------,?. / IF You have the money marked or the serials taken. You have New bills instead of used ones. You have any other denominations of bills instead of $5,$I0,or $20. You have a dummy package in place of the money. You have anyone with you or around you or following you. You talk of this to anyone. You notify the POLICE or ANYONE. - --------*******------------ ---------*******--------- Your wife, will be held 24 hours to see if you have met these requirements. Remember we are watching your every move and it is very necessary that BE CAREFUL. You might make a move that would seem to you to be O.K. but at the time same it might prove fatal. Be Wise--Be Careful--Walter Fisher Skeele, If Ever There Was a Time to BE CAREFUL, It is NOW! Otherwise
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ransom letter, demanding money for the return of Mary B. Skeele, 1933

Description:: Ransom letter, demanding money for the return of kidnapping victim Mary B. Skeele, wife of Walter Skeele, the Professor of Organ and Dean of the College of Music at the University of Southern California. The ransom was paid and Mrs. Skeele was returned unharmed.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Rear entrance to Nellie and Eric D. Madison's apartment (copy), Burbank, 1934

Description:: 39-year-old Nellie Madison, on suspicion of fatally shooting husband Eric D. Madison in their Burbank apartment, was arraigned on March 29, 1934 and was allowed a final visit to her apartment.
Date:: [circa March, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Scottish Rite Cathedral parking lot where Dr. Leonard Siever was murdered, Pasadena, 1933

Description:: Crime scene photograph of a man pointing towards the automobile of Dr. Leonard Siever in the parking lot of the Scottish Rite Cathedral at 150 N. Madison Ave. in Pasadena where Dr. Siever was murdered.
Date:: December 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Six objects on fabric background, possibly related to Fay Sudow murder case, [1920?]

Description:: Lower left: dark paper or cardboard tag, reading 26-20
Date:: [1920?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Unidentified detectives search the room where Rose Marie Happel was killed, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Photograph depicts detectives searching the room where Rose Marie Happel was found. She was murdered by her husband, John H. Happel (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times).
Date:: December 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Unidentified detectives search the room where Rose Marie Happel was murdered, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:: Photograph depicts detectives examining the trunk where the body of Rose Marie Happel was found (also referred to as Rosabella in the Los Angeles Times). She was murdered by her husband John H. Happel.
Date:: December 5, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Unidentified detective with William Hardy's blood-stained clothing, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Photograph relates to article: "Child Found Near Death From Blows: Confession Made By Brother," Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 1935: 1.
Date:: February 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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