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Detective Lieutenant Dick Lucas on the witness stand during the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, 1928

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Title: Detective Lieutenant Dick Lucas on the witness stand during the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, 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.
Photograph of Detective Lieutenant Richard "Dick" Lucas, seated on the witness stand. Lucas was one of several law enforcement officers who interrogated William Edward Hickman during his extradition by train from Pendleton, Oregon to Los Angeles.
On the train ride, Hickman confessed to the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker. Hickman was subsequently tried and sentenced to death. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: Dick Lucas
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10422
ark:/21198/zz002hbcwj
Subject: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Lucas, Richard James
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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