Oregon prison guard in charge of securing William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, 1927
Item Overview
- Title
- Oregon prison guard in charge of securing William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton, 1927
- Date Created
- [circa December 25, 1927]
- Date
- 1927-12-25
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- Photograph of a man, wearing a suit jacket, pants, button down sweater and hat, standing in front of a jail cell door, holing a skeleton key in one hand. The unidentified man guards the cell that held William Edward Hickman, who kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Marion Parker in Los Angeles, December of 1927. He was captured in Echo, Oregon after an 8-day manhunt, and held in Pendleton, Oregon for extradition. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed in San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
- Location
- Pendleton (Or.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Guards--Oregon--Pendleton
Extradition
Fugitives from justice--Oregon--Pendleton
Jails--Oregon--Pendleton
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_10460
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hbf65
- 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
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .