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Kidnapper William Edward Hickman, with Frank Dewar, Roy Bogle and Claude Peters, Los Angeles, 1927-1928

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Title: Kidnapper William Edward Hickman, with Frank Dewar, Roy Bogle and Claude Peters, Los Angeles, 1927-1928
Date Created and/or Issued: [1927-1928]
1927/1928
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.
Hickman had confessed to the kidnap for ransom and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. It is not clear as to whether this photo was taken during Hickman’s post-extradition arraignment in December of 1927, or his trial in 1928. Hickman was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
William Edward Hickman seated at left next to Deputy Sheriff Claude Peters; Jailer Frank Dewar kneels between them. Assistant Jailer Roy Bogle is standing.
Handwritten on negative: Hickman, Frank Dewar, Roy Bogle, Claude Peters.
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10477
ark:/21198/zz002hbfsz
Subject: Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Dewar, Frank Duncan, 1883 or 84-1932
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Peters, Claude P., 1894-1974
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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