Hale Sparks, Sam Burnham and Solomon Laykin, witnesses for the prosecution in the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Hale Sparks, Sam Burnham and Solomon Laykin, witnesses for the prosecution in the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928
- Date Created
- [circa January 27, 1928]
- Date
- 1928-01-27
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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The young men were former schoolmates of William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnapper and murderer of Marion Parker, age 12. Both Hale Sparks and Sam Burnham attended Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri, where William Hickman lived prior to Parker's murder. Solomon Laykin attended Los Angeles High School with Hickman when he lived in California. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Hale Sparks, Sam Burnham and Solomon Laykin, wearing suits and ties (two holding hats in hand), photographed in a room at the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Sparks, Hale S., 1908-1997
Laykin, Solomon William, 1910-1993
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Burnham, Sam, b. 1908 or 09 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_10449
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hbdt0
- 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
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .