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...."
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.
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.
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.
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..."
Photograph of investigator A. J. Fitzgerald, wearing a tweed jacket, tie, and straw boater hat, reading from papers in a drawer. He stands in the room of Ex-banker, William L. McKee. At left, an open suitcase lays atop a metal frame bed with casters. Below the window, a small table topped with coffee and "Cocomalt" cans and newspapers stacked below. Numerous neckties hang on a ring attached to a mirror at right. Also in view are a metal wash basin, near empty glass bottles, shoes and metal shoe stretchers.
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.
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...."
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.
Freda M. MacArthur (left) and Emma Barber sit next to each other in wooden chairs. MacArthur wears a light colored short-sleeved dress with dark piping, and a hat. She clutches a pocketbook in her lap and rests her left arm on the chair arm. Barber wears a dark polka-dot dress with flutter sleeves and a hat with flowers on it. Both elbows rest on the chair arms. A pair of gloves rests in her lap.
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.
Ben F. Reynolds is sitting behind a table, leaning forwards, crossed arms laid in front of him on the table. He wears a collared shirt, and pinky ring on his right hand. A wall radiator is in the background. Part of a newspaper is on the table in front of him.
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.