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Description:: An extortion letter received by retired chiropractor Dr. A.M. Foote threatening members of his family and demanding immediate payment. Several other celebrities were targeted as well, such as actress Anna May Wong and producer David O. Selznick.
Date:: [circa March 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: An extortion letter received by actress Anna May Wong threatening members of her family and demanding immediate payment. Several other celebrities were targeted as well, such as Dr. A.M. Foote and producer David O. Selznick.
Date:: [circa March 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A threatening letter sent to District Attorney Buron Fitts before he was shot while driving by a mystery assailant. It reads, "Keep your eyes on the road to liberty." Buron Fitts regularly received such threats, and all these letters were studied extensively after the assassination attempt.
Date:: [circa March 10, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: An extortion letter received by actress Anna May Wong threatening members of her family and demanding immediate payment. Several other celebrities were targeted as well, such as Dr. A.M. Foote and producer David O. Selznick.
Date:: [circa March 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Reported in "MYSTERIOUS DEATH NOTE SENT JUDGE: Mrs. Bullock Also Trailed by Auto for Some Time; Inquiry Launched," Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 1927: A1.
Date:: [August 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Eunice (left) and Irene Pringle are under guard in their home from threats received over the Pantages trial. Photo appears with the article "PANTAGES CASE MOVE DELAYED: Pitts Defers Setting Course On New Trial Order Week-end Will Be Devoted to Study of Decision Pringle Girl Tells of Fear as Result of Threats," Los Angeles Times, 04 Apr. 1931: A3.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph published with the article, "Prank Seen in Cut-Rate Extortion," Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 1935: A10.
Date:: Aug 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Andrew Schwarzmann (or Andrew Schwarzman) sits in a three piece suit, photographed from the waist up. Behind him are bars against a solid structure, no openings.
Date:: [circa January 7, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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.
Date:: March 10, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears in the article, "Judge in Aimee Civil Suit Receives Threat Letter. Silver Shirt Propaganda Inclosed; Warning Interrupts Film Case and Starts Investigation." Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 1934: A1.
Date:: [circa February 1, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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