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Title: Hickman safe in jail
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Hickman is shown in the safety of the jail after running a gauntlet of shouts, "Lynch him! String him up!" from crowds outside the Hall of Jusice. He is shown with the two men upon whom he chiefly depends for protection against violence, Jailer Frank Dewar, and Undersheriff Gene Biscailuz. He was convicted for the murder of Marion Parker and hanged at San Quentin prison in 1928.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027408
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2180-Hickman-Parker case.; HE-002-617 4x5
CARL0000030097
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8232
Subject: Hickman, William Edward,--1908-1928
Dewar, Frank
Biscailuz, Eugene W.,--1883-1969
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Kidnapping--California--Los Angeles
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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