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Detective Inspector Dwight Longuevan on the witness stand during the trial of William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1928

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Title: Detective Inspector Dwight Longuevan on the witness stand during the trial of William Edward Hickman, 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.
Detective Inspector Dwight Longuevan, seated on the witness stand with notebook in hand, photographed during judicial proceedings for William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnapper and murderer of 12-year-old Marion Parker.
William Edward Hickman was captured in Echo, Oregon, after and eight-day manhunt. Longuevan served the extradition papers that brought Hickman back to Los Angeles for trial, and was one of several officers who interrogated Hickman regarding other crimes. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward.
Handwritten on negative: Dwight Longuevan
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10432
ark:/21198/zz002hbd76
Subject: Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Longuevan, Dwight West, 1890-1959
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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