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Prince Eric of Denmark seated with Ryan Grunt, Vice-Consul of Denmark, Hickman kidnapping and murder trial spectators, Los Angeles, 1928

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Title: Prince Eric of Denmark seated with Ryan Grunt, Vice-Consul of Denmark, Hickman kidnapping and murder trial spectators, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: 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.
Prince Eric of Denmark (at left with cigarette in hand) and Ryan A Grut, Vice-Consul of Denmark, seated together in a room (number '108'). The two were likely spectators attending judicial hearings for William Edward Hickman, tried for the kidnapping and murder of Marion Parker, age 12.
Prince Eric lived with his wife and daughter on his Arcadia estate from 1924-1928. There, he raised chickens and pure-breed dogs.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Written on negative: Ryan A Grut... Prince Eric
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10421
ark:/21198/zz002hbcv1
Subject: Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Princes--Denmark
Consuls--Danish--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Grut, Ryan A. (Ryan Asger), 1895-1969
Eric, Prince of Denmark
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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