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Title
Jury of William Edward Hickman in the courtroom, 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.
Photograph appears with headline, "Hickman Jury Returns Sanity Verdict in Thirty-six Minutes on First Ballot Taker," Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb 1928: 2.
William Edward Hickman goes to trial for the murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker.
The jurors sit in the jury box. An unidentified thirteenth woman stands next to the second row of jurors.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William kidnapping
Handwritten on negative: Hickman Jury
Text from newspaper caption: "Guilty" on Their First Ballot The jury which found Hickman sane: Front row (left to right)-Arlo E. Ruckett, Robert L. Bowman, Mrs. Virginia L. Roess, Mrs. Emily Lindrum, Sarah A. Roach, Harry H. Wood, Howard Atkinson, Howard Skerves, J. A. Ruggles (foreman,) Edwin Venables.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_9488
ark:/21198/zz002dhk1h
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Juries--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Courtrooms--California--Los Angeles
Roess, Virginia L, b. 1889 or 90-1942
Roach, Sarah A
Venables, Edwin, b. 1861 or 62
Lindrum, Emily, b. 1876 or 77
Atkinson, Howard
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Ruckett, Arlo E
Kahn, Elias
Skerves, Howard
Ruggles, J.A
Bowman, Robert L
Wood, Harry H
Bullis, Elizabeth A., b. 1874
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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