Genre: news photographs / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection / Names: Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942 / Subject: Clocks & watches - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, February 10, 1933, "Net Tightens on Couple in Skeele Kidnap Case, Ransom Note Typewriter Found; Man Suspect Ex-Convict; Grand Jury Action Sought," … Mrs. Skeele’s attention was directed to the clock which she has said she heard ticking and sounding off on the hour and half-hour …
Date Created:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, April 7, 1933, Woman in Skeele Kidnapping Collapses As Asserted Man Companion Pleads Guilty, Cries Disrupt Court For Day, Adjournment Taken Because of Disturbance, Van Dorn Springs Surprise by Changing Plea, Faces Prison Sentence of Ten Years to Life. … A touch of drama was added to the trial during the morning session when an large mantel clock was offered for identification by Dep. Dist.-Attys. Kearney and Russell as the clock which Mrs. Skeele heard strike in the prison house. …
Date Created:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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