Los Angeles police sergeant Howard L. Barlow inspecting a car steering wheel, Los Angeles, 1927

Title: Los Angeles police sergeant Howard L. Barlow inspecting a car steering wheel, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created: 1927
Date: 1927
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Sergeant Howard L. Barlow of the police identification bureau, in vest and tie, photographed indoors. Barlow holds a car steering wheel in his left hand while examining the center of the wheel using a magnifying device.
Related to the Los Angeles Times article, “Murder Suspect Hunted After Wrecking of Car, Hickman Sought Near Redlands; Lair of Girl Slayer Located; Formal Complaint Issued,” 21 Dec. 1927: 1.
Barlow linked fingerprints found in the stolen Chrysler coupe used by William Edward Hickman to ransom notes sent to Perry Parker, father of kidnap and murder victim Marion Parker, age 12.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Written on negative: Parker case. H. L. Barlow Chrysler wheel.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Barlow, Howard L., 1891-1938
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Law enforcement officers--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10423
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbcx2
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