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Title
Bellevue Arms apartment building, residence of confessed kidnapper and murderer William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued
1927
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.
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, "Accused Slayer's Abode Gives Evidence of Hurried Departure: Hickman's Finger-Prints Found in Apartment. Occupant Identified as Suspected Slayer of Marion Parker; Death Car There Saturday," 21 Dec. 1927:3.
Three men stand next to a 1920s era automobile parked on the street in front of the Bellevue Arms apartments, 1170 Bellevue Avenue, where William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnapper and murderer, rented an apartment (No. 315).
Evidence collected from the apartment helped convict Hickman, who was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: Parker case
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10428
ark:/21198/zz002hbd34
Subject
Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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