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Title: Crowd awaiting the train carrying William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Glendale, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: December 27, 1927
1927-12-27
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 Los Angeles Times article, "Hickman Faces Questions About Another Murder: Crowd Surrounding Jail Foiled; Court Hearing to Be Tomorrow; Slayer Faints in His Cell," 28 Dec. 1927: A1.
Crowd of men, women and children gather outside of the Glendale Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, waiting to glimpse the train that carried William Edward Hickman to Los Angeles from Pendleton, Oregon, where he was held while awaiting extradition. Hickman confessed to the kidnap for ransom and murder of Marion Parker, age 12. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward.
Written on negative: Crowds at Glendale
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10438
ark:/21198/zz002hbdf9
Subject: Homicides
Spectators--California--Glendale
Kidnappings
Railroad stations--California--Glendale
Extradition
Glendale Transportation Center (Calif.)
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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