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Description:: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Gettle kidnapping house in La Crescenta
Date:: [circa May 16, 1934]]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Gettle kidnapping house in La Crescenta
Date:: [circa May 16, 1934]]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Men at work repairing a swath of damage done to the La Crescenta Highway after torrential rains in that area. Further rains would bring flooding, resulting in more damage and loss of life, in the coming days. December 31, 1933.
Date:: December 31, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Gettle kidnapping house in La Crescenta
Date:: [circa May 16, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The house in La Crescenta where William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, was held during his five day kidnapping in May of 1934. Gettle was kidnapped from his ranch home in Arcadia on the night of May 9th during a housewarming party, then held in this 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:: [circa May 16, 1934]]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Several people stand in front of a ranch-style home that has sustained significant damage from storms. La Crescenta area, December 31, 1933.
Date:: December 31, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ruins of a stone building destroyed by the La Crescenta fires.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A portion of the home can be seen, surrounded by foliage, with an awning covering the back porch with numerous patio chairs and tables.
Date:: August 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Mrs. Peete Weeps Where Denton was Murdered; Leads Officers Over Catalina Street Mansion of Mystery; Asks Public Not to Judge Her Yet," Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 1920: II1.
Date:: [October 6, 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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