Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Notebook described in the article, "Hickman Makes His Plea Today: Murderer Expected to Offer Insanity Excuse," Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 1928: A2. This notebook was confiscated after Hickman's capture in Echo, Oregon, and was examined to ascertain whether Hickman had a female accomplice in the kidnapping. Fingerprints appear above the text. Notebook page with text (probably lyrics) transcribed by William Edward Hickman, convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Marion Parker, aged 12. Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward Handwritten in notebook: "If you want her/ Just take her/ If she wont love/ Then make her/ There's no use givin up the ghost/ when a baby wont say yes/ If she pulls where/ you squeeze her/ Just kiss her then / and tease her/ There's no use givin up the ghost when/ a baby won't say yes/ Many girls will say no to test you out/ And if you fail to try again then youre quiet left out/ Bachelors cannot judge the women/ They think girls go out by given/ Begin by/ But if they take them / and hug them/ The girls wont always jug [?] them."
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10429 ark:/21198/zz002hbd4n
Language
English
Subject
Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles Homicides--California--Los Angeles Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles Parker, Marion, 1915-1927 Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
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