Louis Victor Eytinge (1878-1938) became a lucrative business man while serving a life sentence in the Arizona state prison. He was the son of Ida Seebohm, a music teacher from Dayton, Ohio and Harry Eytinge. From 1907-1937, Louis Eyinge was in and out of prison for forgery and fraud. This collection consists of published material and correspondence about or by Eytinge. Most of the material was created from 1915 to 1917, although some items are undated.

Louis Victor Eytinge (1878-1938) became a lucrative business man while serving a life sentence in the Arizona state prison. He was the son of Ida Seebohm, a music teacher from Dayton, Ohio and Harry Eytinge. Louis Eyinge spent most of his life in and out of prison for forgery and fraud. In 1907, Eytinge was also convicted and sentenced for a murder that some experts claimed was impossible for Eytinge to commit.

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