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Oregon prison guard in charge of securing William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, 1927

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Title: Oregon prison guard in charge of securing William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa December 25, 1927]
1927-12-25
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 a man, wearing a suit jacket, pants, button down sweater and hat, standing in front of a jail cell door, holing a skeleton key in one hand. The unidentified man guards the cell that held William Edward Hickman, who kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Marion Parker in Los Angeles, December of 1927. He was captured in Echo, Oregon after an 8-day manhunt, and held in Pendleton, Oregon for extradition. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed in San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Handwritten on negative: Guard & door where Hickman was held at Pendelton
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward. Murderer.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10460
ark:/21198/zz002hbf65
Subject: Extradition
Fugitives from justice--Oregon--Pendleton
Jails--Oregon--Pendleton
Guards--Oregon--Pendleton
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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