Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Suicides--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Nurse Carolyn Wells leans over the bedside of Vivian Denton and hands the woman, bundled under a quilt and sheets, a glass of white liquid while a newspaper featuring Denton's attempted suicide rests on her lap.
Date Created:: February 12, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Last page of the suicide note left by Leslie Ray Raymond, who killed himself by asphyxiation by inhalation of automobile emission. He had been a radio announcer in Oakland, California, known as "Brother Bob." In his suicide note he confesses having an affair with his niece.
Date Created:: December 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Reported in the article, "Suicide Ends Love Mix-Up. Radio Announcer's Farewell to Wife Hints Niece as 'Other Woman,'" Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 1935: 3.
Date Created:: December 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Second page of the suicide note left by Leslie Ray Raymond, who killed himself by asphyxiation by inhalation of automobile emission. He had been a radio announcer in Oakland, California, known as "Brother Bob." In his suicide note he confesses having an affair with his niece.
Date Created:: December 6, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Ex-Banker Ends Life: Poverty Causes Suicide in Park William L. McKee, Without Funds or Job, Kills Self in Pershing Square," Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 1935: 1.
Date Created:: August 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Suicide notes found on the body of A. R. Driskell, grandfather of Welby Hunt, accomplice with William Edward Hickman in the murder of pharmacist C. Ivy Toms. The handwriting was not analyzed when Driskell took his life (May 25, 1927), but his relationship to Hunt and Hickman brought his death into question during the C. Ivy Toms murder investigation and trial (1927-1928). Both Welby Hunt and William Hickman are referenced in the notes. Initial handwriting comparisons suggested that not all the notes were written by Driskell. An investigation led by George Contreras, chief investigator for the District Attorney's office, concluded that the death was a suicide.
Date Created:: [1927 or 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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