Mrs. Cora Belle Weeks, a possible spectator at the Hickman kidnapping trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Title: Mrs. Cora Belle Weeks, a possible spectator at the Hickman kidnapping trial, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created: 1928
Date: 1928
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Mrs. Weeks was likely a spectator at the trial of William Edward Hickman, tried for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker in December 1927. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Mrs. Cora Belle Weeks, seated, wearing a hat, gloves and fur stole.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward
Handwritten on negative: Mrs Cora Belle Weeks

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Weeks, Cora Belle Fiske, 1873-1957
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10443
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbdmw
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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