Ransom instructions, Mary B. Skeele kidnapping case, 1933

Description: This photograph, cropped, appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 7, 1933, Mrs. Skeele Ransom Demands Told in Notes
Note with partial ransom instructions, created with cut-out words and letters, held by 2 gloved hands on wooden background, reading: Tie package Thoroughly TO This end of S t r i n G and GO ON
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: The note found in the cracker box which was the final word from the kidnapers.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 10144 - Mrs. Mary B. Skeeles - 1934 Kidnaping - (Return to Library [Stamped:] Dec 19 [1934?] [1937?]

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_0241
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