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Naomi Britton, teacher who identified William Edward Hickman as the kidnapper of Marion Parker, Los Angeles, 1928

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Title: Naomi Britton, teacher who identified William Edward Hickman as the kidnapper of Marion Parker, 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.
"Related to article, Hickman's Case May End Today: State All Set to Shatter Insanity Defensey," Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 1928: A1.
Britton identified Hickman as the young man who retrieved Parker from school under false pretenses. Hickman was executed at San Quentin on October 19, 1928.
Photograph of Naomi Britton, teacher at Mount Vernon Junior High School, where Marion Parker was kidnapped by William Edward Hickman.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: Naomi Britton
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10431
ark:/21198/zz002hbd6p
Subject: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Britton, Naomi
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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