Typewritten letter from detective J.F. Bean to police captain Charles R. Moffatt describing objects recovered from scene of murder of Fay Sudow, 1920

Title: Typewritten letter from detective J.F. Bean to police captain Charles R. Moffatt describing objects recovered from scene of murder of Fay Sudow, 1920
Date Created: December 13, 1920
Date: 1920-12-13
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Text reads, in part: Los Angeles, Dec. 13, 1920, 2:30 a.m. Capt. Charles R. Moffatt, Commanding Detective Bureau. Sir: At 11:30 of Dec. 12 -- or tonight -- I was told by Paul J. Braud, a reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner, that if I went to the Examiner office I would be given some valuable information concerning the murder of an unidentified woman found in the eucalyptus grove at Edendale earlier in the day. ... I saw on a table a large amount of jewelry, a large leather folder, a suitcase (leather), a pile of women's clothing, two magazines and some papers, a thermometer and some collar buttons, etc. ... I asked [the reporters] to take me out to the place where they had found these things ... All of this stuff I have filed with the property clerk under my name so that it will be at hand for the officers investigating the case this morning. ... Respectfully, J F Bean.
Handwritten at bottom left: Jarvis, England, Boat [?] Smith, Jackson P, Rico
Related to Los Angeles Times article, December 13, 1920, and subsequent articles about the murder of Fay Sudow: Demon Slays, Strips Woman. Strollers Find Nude Corpse Under Pile of Leaves. Body Terribly Mutilated to Prevent Identification. Signs of Terrifc Fight by Victim Before Killing.
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: [Typewritten:] Sidow, Fay Mrs., Murder case, 1923 [Handwritten:] Sudow

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Sudow, Fay Levi, 1878?-1920
Moffatt, Charles R., b. 1857
Bean, James F., b. 1881
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Legal
Crime

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_3160
3160
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cn1mz
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