Resource Type: still image / Location: Pasadena (Calif.) / Names: Skeele, Mary Bosworth, 1867-1942 / Subject: People - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article, "Net Tightens on Couple in Skeele Kidnap Case, Ransom Note Typewriter Found; Man Suspect Ex-Convict; Grand Jury Action Sought, with caption: Scenes in Sensational Drama Aftermath of Holding for Ransom Wife of S.C. Dean of Music. Blindfolded, Mrs. Skeele is taken through house and grounds of the Pasadena home by Chief of Detectives Taylor, left, and her son, Franklin Skeele," Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1933
Date:: February 9, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mary B. Skeele, wearing coat, face obscured by blindfold, in the driveway near porch of the bungalow house of Luella Pearl Hammer where she was held (623 Buckeye St.), with son Franklin B. Skeele guiding her, Detective Joe Taylor at left, and 2 other men on porch, with garage in left background and potted plants on porch wall
Date:: February 9, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with 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
Date:: February 9, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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