Resource Type: still image / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Schiffman, Rudolph, Jr., 1911 or 12-1935 / Subject: Suicides--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: From letter: "Sat., Aug 24, 1935,"-- "Dear Pop, I am sorry to leave like this without even asking you if I could stay on but you will have to forgive me. You are now rid of your lazy lout boozer, tramp, and jail-bird...."
Date:: August 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to article, "Young Heir Kills Self: Schiffman Jr., in Suicide, Son of Wealthy Drug Man Ends Life Due to Grief Over Girl's Death," Los Angeles Times, 2 Sept. 1935: A1.
Date:: August 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to article, "Young Heir Kills Self: Schiffman Jr., in Suicide, Son of Wealthy Drug Man Ends Life Due to Grief Over Girl's Death," Los Angeles Times, 2 Sept. 1935: A1.
Date:: August 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: From letter: "sure the world will get along fine without me--I think everything is in order.--Please see that these other notes are delivered to John..."
Date:: August 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From letter: "short years I spent with Jean. She was everything to me and I guess I meant everything to her. We were meant for each other...."
Date:: August 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A few lines from page 2: "I realize all you have done you have thought you were doing for my good. You were teaching me, but the lesson was too long and too severe.--It is all for the best anyway...."
Date:: August 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Part of this photograph appears with the article, "Young Heir Kills Self: Schiffman Jr., in Suicide, Son of Wealthy Drug Man Ends Life Due to Grief Over Girl's Death," Los Angeles Times, 2 Sept. 1935: A1. According to the article, he killed himself due to sadness over the suicide of a girl that committed suicide two years prior.
Date:: August 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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