Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A line of men and women, both seated and standing, wait within the Los Angeles Courthouse to witness judicial proceedings for William Edward Hickman, who confessed to kidnapping and murdering Marion Parker, aged 12. Hickman was tried and sentenced to death. He was executed at San Quentin, October 22, 1928. Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward Handwritten on negative: At Hickman trial
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10424 ark:/21198/zz002hbczk
Subject
Spectators--California--Los Angeles Homicides--California--Los Angeles Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles Parker, Marion, 1915-1927 Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
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