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Street where kidnapper and murderer William Edward Hickman was captured, Echo (Oregon), 1927

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Title: Street where kidnapper and murderer William Edward Hickman was captured, Echo (Oregon), 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: December 1927
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 buildings and open fields along a thoroughfare in the town of Echo, Oregon, where William Edward Hickman was captured by Oregon police officers, "Buck" Lieuallen and Thomas Gurdane, after an eight-day manhunt. Hickman returned to Los Angeles by train (with a cadre of law enforcement officers and newspaper reporters) to stand trial for the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, age 12. Hickman was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
The town of Echo is located in northeast Oregon, near the border with Washington. It is 20 miles from Pendleton, where William Edward Hickman was held while awaiting extradition.
Handwritten on negative: Echo, Or.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward. Murderer.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10462
ark:/21198/zz002hbf86
Subject: Fugitives from justice--Oregon--Echo
Buildings--Oregon--Echo
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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