Crowd at the train carrying William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Glendale, 1927
Item Overview
- Title
- Crowd at the train carrying William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Glendale, 1927
- Date Created
- December 27, 1927
- Date
- 1927-12-27
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Crowd of men, women and children gather outside of the Glendale Southern Pacific Railroad Depot and watch as a train carrying William Edward Hickman passes by.
The train was traveling to Los Angeles from Pendleton, Oregon, where Hickman was captured after an eight-day manhunt. Hickman had confessed to the kidnap for ransom and murder of Marion Parker, age 12. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Hickman Faces Questions About Another Murder: Crowd Surrounding Jail Foiled; Court Hearing to Be Tomorrow; Slayer Faints in His Cell," 28 Dec. 1927: A1.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Glendale Transportation Center (Calif.)
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928 - Location
- Glendale (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.123565
- Latitude
- -118.257844
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Extradition
Fugitives from justice--California--Glendale
Crowds--California--Glendale
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_10458
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hbf44
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .