Leslie L. Heap tells police of Gretchen Wahlen's threatening letters, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Leslie L. Heap tells police of Gretchen Wahlen's threatening letters, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: March 10, 1936
Date: 1936-03-10
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Gretchen Wahlen, heir to a $50,000 estate, has been missing since last Sunday - her attorney Leslie Heap relates to police the threatening letters Mrs. Wahlen had been receiving from an unknown sender.
Photograph appears with the article, "Fear Felt For Widow," Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar 1936: A12.
Heap sits with an open folder of documents and envelopes in his lap.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Leslie L. Heap, attorney for Mrs. Gretchen Wahlen, missing widow. He disclosed she had received threatening letters.
Handwritten on negative: Atty Leslie L. Heap 3/10/36
Text from negative sleeve: 3914 - Leslie L. Heap, atty Letters in Grace C Wahlen Story 3/10/36 [stamped:] Mar 12 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Heap, Leslie L., b. 1898 or 99-1964
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Bookcases--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12931
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hn1k3
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