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Title: Tom murder re-enactment
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
The Rose Hill Drug Store in which C. Ivy Tom was slain. Left to right the photo shows Deputy District Attorney James P. Costello, standing where policeman D. C. Oliver was fixing his flashlight; George Contreras, chief investigator, and Deputy District Attorney Thoms in the place of druggist Toms and Victor Page, a customer; (Hickman was in front of them) and Mrs. Ruth Toms in the same position she occupied during the holdup; Hunt came through the opening to the right of her.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00027814
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2180 Hickman-Parker case; HE-001-526 4x5
CARL0000030126
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/9957
Subject: Hickman, William Edward,--1908-1928
Tom, C. Ivy
Costello, James P
Crime--California--Los Angeles
Kidnapping--California--Los Angeles
Murder--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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