Unidentified man and woman at the residence of William F. Gettle, kidnapping victim, Beverly Hills, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Unidentified man and woman at the residence of William F. Gettle, kidnapping victim, Beverly Hills, 1934
- Date Created
- [circa May 10, 1934]
- Date
- 1934-05-10
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Photograph of an unidentified man and woman at the Beverly Hills Residence of residence of William F. Gettle, kidnapping victim (723 N. Linden Dr.). The couple may be relatives of Mrs. Fleeta Gettle, or possibly members of the press (who made headquarters at the residence during the five-day ordeal).
William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a housewarming party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Gettle, William F., 1887-1941
- Location
- Beverly Hills (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.072519
- Latitude
- 118.416634
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Kidnappings--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_10369
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hbb2n
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .