Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Hickman, standing in the center of the photograph, awaits a sentence from Judge Trabucco. Seated, on the left, is Deputy District Attorney Forrest F. Murray. Behind him is defense attorney Jerome Walsh and seated behind them is Deputy Sheriff Claude Peters. Attorney Richard Cantillon stands to Hickman's right. This photograph is likely related to the article, "Hickman Must Pay on Gibbet," Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb 1928: A1. William Edward Hickman received a death sentence on Feburary 14, 1928, for the murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. Autopsy Surgeon Andrew F. Wagner and psychiatrist Dr. Cecil E. Reynolds submitted a brief testimony before the sentence was announced by Judge Trabucco. Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_9463 ark:/21198/zz002dhj53
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No linguistic content
Subject
Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles Lawyers--California--Los Angeles Police--California--Los Angeles Cantillon, Richard Richard Henry, 1897-1967 Murray, Forrest F., 1893-1976 Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928 Peters, Claude P., 1894-1974 Walsh, Jerome, 1902-1971
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