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Title: William Edward Hickman
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: "The Fox," William Edward Hickman, hanged on February 4, 1928, before a standing-room-only crowd of 400. On the first attempt the rope snapped, and he had to go through the gruesome ordeal a second time.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027387
Herald Examiner Collection
2180 Hickman-Parker case.; HE-002-555 4x5
CARL0000030076
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/9908
Subject: Hickman, William Edward,--1908-1928
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Kidnapping--California--Los Angeles
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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