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Chief investigator George Contreras, seated in a biplane on his way to Oregon during the hunt for kidnapper and murderer William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1927

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Title: Chief investigator George Contreras, seated in a biplane on his way to Oregon during the hunt for kidnapper and murderer William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: 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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Hickman Indicted: Jury Rushes Aid to Extradition," 23 Dec. 1927: 1.
George Contreras, chief of the Los Angeles District Attorney's investigating staff, photographed seated in a biplane on his way to Oregon during the hunt for William Edward Hickman, wanted for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker.
Contreras accompanied the first contingent of law enforcement officers headed north, following the trail of William Edward Hickman, wanted for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. Hickman was captured on December 22, 1927 in Echo, Oregon, after an eight-day manhunt. He was extradited three days later. Upon his return to Los Angeles, Hickman was tried and sentenced to death for the Parker murder. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Handwritten on negative: Geo Contreras
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward. Murder.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10468
ark:/21198/zz002hbfg9
Subject: Law enforcement officers--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Contreras, George, 1888-1945
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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