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Title: Jury members for the Hickman-Hunt murder trial, 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.
Photograph of jurors from the Hickman-Hunt trial. William Edward Hickman, who was already sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker, was tried jointly with Welby Hunt for the murder of C. Ivy Toms, a Rosehill pharmacist, on Christmas Eve of 1926. Hunt received a life sentence but was later paroled. Hickman also received a life sentence but was executed at San Quentin for the Parker murder, October 19, 1928.
Handwritten on negative: Hickman Hunt jury
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward. Murderer.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10455
ark:/21198/zz002hbf1k
Subject: Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Juries--California--Los Angeles
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Hunt, Welby Leeson, 1911-1995
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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