Location: Pasadena (Calif.) / Names: Hammer, Luella Pearl, 1895-1990 / Subject: Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Mary B. Skeele, wife of Walter Skeele, the Professor of Organ and Dean of the College of Music at the University of Southern California was kidnapped in 1933. The ransom was paid and Mrs. Skeele was returned unharmed. A former student, E. H. Van Dorn, and Luella Pearl, were found guilty of the crime.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection