Carroll Hakes, M. K. Wadley and Walter Price, prosecution witnesses in the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Carroll Hakes, M. K. Wadley and Walter Price, prosecution witnesses in the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Date Created

1928

Date

1928

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Carroll Hakes, M. K. Wadley and Walter Price, prosecution witnesses in the trial to establish the mental condition of William Edward Hickman, confessed Kidnapper and murderer of Marion Parker, age 12.
Hakes and Wadley were both clerks at a grocery frequented by Hickman and his mother when they lived in Alhambra, California. Walter Price was a gas station attendant, also of Alhambra. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Carroll Hakes, M. K. Wadley and Walter Price are noted in the article, "Hickman Trial in Final Stage: Testimony May be Ended by Close of Today's Session," Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb 1928: A1.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Hickman case. Carol Hakes, M K Wadley, Walter Price L to R
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Hakes, Carroll Newport, 1912-1987
Price, Walter Hampton, 1897-1956
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Wadley, M. K. (Malcolm Kirk), 1898-1983

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles