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Rosslyn Hotel bus shuttling jury members from the Hall of Justice during the Hickman trial, 1928

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Title: Rosslyn Hotel bus shuttling jury members from the Hall of Justice during the Hickman trial, 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.
William Edward Hickman confessed to the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. He was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial and executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Jury members in the trial of William Edward Hickman, men in suits and hats, and two women, stand on a sidewalk outside of a building that appears to be the Los Angeles Hall of Justice. At right sits a small bus with a heart-shaped logo imprinted on the passenger side door. Text reads: "Hart Bros Rosslyn Hotels HB."
Jury member Elias Kahn stands front row, third from left.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10434
ark:/21198/zz002hbd97
Subject: Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Juries--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Kahn, Elias, b. 1865 or 66
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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