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House adjacent to the apartment William Edward Hickman shared with his mother and sister, Alhambra, 1927 or 1928

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Title: House adjacent to the apartment William Edward Hickman shared with his mother and sister, Alhambra, 1927 or 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: [1927 or 1928]
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.
Alhambra home located at 2521 Birch Street. The home shares the same lot as the walk-up apartment William Edward Hickman shared with his mother Eva and sister Mary before the family moved back to Kansas City, Missouri. Hickman returned to California several months before murdering pharmacist C. Ivy Toms during the commission of a robbery, and the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. Hickman received a life sentence for Toms' murder, and a death sentence for Parker's murder. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Hickman a 'Mild Boy': Neighbors in Alhambra Recall Slayer Suspect as 'Gentleman' and 'Bug on Motorcycles'," 21 Dec. 1927: 2.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: Parker Case
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10414
ark:/21198/zz002hbcmd
Subject: Criminals--California--Alhambra
Dwellings--California--Alhambra
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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