Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Carroll Hakes, M. K. Wadley and Walter Price, prosecution witnesses in the trial to establish the mental condition of William Edward Hickman, confessed Kidnapper and murderer of Marion Parker, age 12. Hakes and Wadley were both clerks at a grocery frequented by Hickman and his mother when they lived in Alhambra, California. Walter Price was a gas station attendant, also of Alhambra. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928. Carroll Hakes, M. K. Wadley and Walter Price are noted in the article, "Hickman Trial in Final Stage: Testimony May be Ended by Close of Today's Session," Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb 1928: A1. Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward Handwritten on negative: Hickman case. Carol Hakes, M K Wadley, Walter Price L to R
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Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10451 ark:/21198/zz002hbdw1
Subject
Witnesses--California--Los Angeles Homicides--California--Los Angeles Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles Price, Walter Hampton, 1897-1956 Hakes, Carroll Newport, 1912-1987 Parker, Marion, 1915-1927 Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928 Wadley, M. K. (Malcolm Kirk), 1898-1983
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