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Title: Richard James Lucas on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1928
1928-02
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Lucas sits on the witness stand with his hands folded in his lap.
Detective Lieutenant Richard Lucas identified William Hickman as having signed the confession on their train back from Pendleton to Los Angeles saying that Hickman had murdered 12-year-old Marion Parker.
Photograph appears with the headline, "Ghastly Details of Little Girl's Murder Revealed," Los Angeles Times, 02 Feb 1928: A2.
Text from newspaper caption: Ghastly Details Related Detective Lieutenant Lucas on witness stand yesterday as he revealed Hickman's story of terrible mutilations of little child.
Handwritten on negative: Dick Lucas 8
Text from negative sleeve: HICKMAN, WILLIAM EDWARD
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9476
ark:/21198/zz002dhjmt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Lucas, Richard James
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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