Bellevue Arms apartment building, residence of confessed kidnapper and murderer William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Bellevue Arms apartment building, residence of confessed kidnapper and murderer William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1927

Date Created

1927

Date

1927

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, "Accused Slayer's Abode Gives Evidence of Hurried Departure: Hickman's Finger-Prints Found in Apartment. Occupant Identified as Suspected Slayer of Marion Parker; Death Car There Saturday," 21 Dec. 1927:3.
Three men stand next to a 1920s era automobile parked on the street in front of the Bellevue Arms apartments, 1170 Bellevue Avenue, where William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnapper and murderer, rented an apartment (No. 315).
Evidence collected from the apartment helped convict Hickman, who was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: Parker case

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
forensic photographs

Names

Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.066274

Latitude

-118.251349

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Criminal investigations--California--Los Angeles
Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles