Detective Inspector Dwight Longuevan on the witness stand during the trial of William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1928

Title: Detective Inspector Dwight Longuevan on the witness stand during the trial of William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created: 1928
Date: 1928
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Detective Inspector Dwight Longuevan, seated on the witness stand with notebook in hand, photographed during judicial proceedings for William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnapper and murderer of 12-year-old Marion Parker.
William Edward Hickman was captured in Echo, Oregon, after and eight-day manhunt. Longuevan served the extradition papers that brought Hickman back to Los Angeles for trial, and was one of several officers who interrogated Hickman regarding other crimes. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward.
Handwritten on negative: Dwight Longuevan

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Longuevan, Dwight West, 1890-1959
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Detectives--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10432
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbd76
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