Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Subject: Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles / Date: 1928 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Evidence in the trial of William Edward Hickman for the kidnapping and murder of Marion Parker, 1928.

Description:: Evidence in the trial of William Edward Hickman, b.1908-d.1928. Hickman was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. Hickman abducted Parker from her school, claiming her father, a prominent local banker, was in the hospital and had requested to see her. After kidnapping Marion, Hickman sent ransom notes to her family, who agreed to pay a sum of $1500 for her return. However, when her father delivered the money at the agreed-upon time and location, the kidnapper drove off, dumping Marion Parker's dismembered corpse into the street as he fled.A massive manhunt began for Marion's killer. Police pieced together evidence leading them to suspect Hickman, a former employee of the Parker family, who had been arrested due to a complaint by Mr. Parker involving forged checks several years prior. One week after Marion's corpse was discovered, two officers in a coffee shop in Echo, OR recognized Hickman from wanted posters plastered up and down the west coast.Eventually, Hickman confessed to another murder, as well as a dozen armed robberies. Although his lawyers attempted to plead insanity for Hickman, the jury convicted him of murder, and he was sentenced to death. Hickman died by hanging in San Quentin prison in 1928.
Date:: [between 1-1928 and 4-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with two men seated at table, one man standing, and possibly testifying as a witness, and a police officer standing in background. On the table are papers and three small model cars.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with two men seated at table, one man standing, and possibly testifying as a witness, and a police officer standing in background. On the table are papers and three small model cars.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with two men seated at table, one man standing and listening, possibly a witness, and a police officer standing in background. On the table are papers and small model cars.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One man standing, possibly testifying as a witness.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with two men seated at table, one man standing and possibly testifying as a witness, and a police officer standing in background. On the table are papers and three small model cars.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table. One man, possibly a witness, standing at table.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One woman standing, possibly testifying as a witness.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One woman standing, possibly testifying as a witness
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One man standing, possibly testifying as a witness.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One woman standing, possibly testifying as a witness.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with two men seated at table, one man standing, and possibly testifying as a witness as he reaches for a small figure of a man on the table. Also on the table are small model cars and papers.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Unidentified courtroom scene with 6 men observing

Description:: Six men watching courtroom procedings
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Attorney at table and spectators and witnesses seated behind him during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Attorney seated with papers in front of him on table. Woman who testified is seated behind him along with other spectators.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with One man seated at table, one man standing, and possibly testifying as a witness, and a police officer standing in background. On the table are papers, small model cars and a small figure of a man.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with one man seated at table, one man standing, and possibly testifying as a witness, and a police officer standing in background. On the table are papers, small model cars and a small figure of a man.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One woman standing, possibly testifying as a witness.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man and woman testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with one man seated at table, a man and a woman standing, possibly witnesses testifying, and a police officer standing in background. On the table are papers, small model cars and a small figure of a man. Three men, seated in the background, are listening to the proceedings.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man and woman testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with one man seated at table, a man and a woman standing, possibly witnesses testifying, and a police officer standing in background. On the table are papers, small model cars and a small figure of a man. Three men, seated in the background, are listening to the proceedings.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with one man seated at table, one man standing, and possibly testifying as a witness, and a police officer standing in background. On the table are papers, small model cars and a small figure of a man.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom with two men seated at table, one man standing, and possibly testifying as a witness. On the table are papers, small model cars and the small figure of a man.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One man standing, possibly testifying as a witness. On the table are small model cars and a small figure of a man
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One man standing, possibly testifying as a witness. On the table are small model cars and a small figure of a man.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woman testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One woman standing, possibly testifying as a witness.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Donald Hendrix testifying before Deputy Coroner Frank Montford, Los Angeles

Description:: Donald Hendrix testifying before Deputy Coroner Frank Montford.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Man testifying (?) during unidentified hearing in courtroom with model cars on table

Description:: Unidentified hearing in courtroom. One man standing, possibly testifying as a witness. On the table are small model cars and a small figure of a man.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Kenneth G. Ormiston, radio engineer, Los Angeles, [1927-1929?]

Description:: Kenneth G. Ormiston, former engineer at the Christian radio station KFSG, possibly in a courtroom. Ormiston is wearing a hat, glasses, and a coat. This photograph was possibly taken when Ormiston when Ormiston was accused of conspiracy to obstruct and pervert justice in relation to the Aimee Semple McPherson case or when Ormiston testified at the impeachment investigation of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carlos S. Hardy.
Date:: [1927-1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Los Angeles County Grand Jury, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: 19 men stand and sit around a long table. Documents are piled on certain parts of the table. The blinds are closed behind them.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Dr. Frank M. Mikels, psychiatrist for the prosecution in the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Mikels was one of several psychiatrists working for the prosecution against William Edward Hickman, who confessed to the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, age 12. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Judge Harry A. Hollzer listening to a testimony, Los Angeles, circa 1927

Description:: Judge Hollzer, left, directs his attention to a woman at the witness stand.
Date:: [between 1924 and 1930?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

S. S. Hahn with client, accused murderer Leo P. Kelley, in the courtroom, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Leo P. Kelley in the witness stand defending himself during his trial for the murder of Myrtle Mellus. His attorney, S. S. Hahn, stands beside him, holding a thermos and pillows. A ground plan of the 2nd floor of the Mellus home is on a stand leaning against the wall behind Hahn.
Date:: [September 11, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Police Captain E. Raymond Cato and Detective Harry Raymond during the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Police Captain Raymond Cato and Detective Harry Raymond, seated together, photographed during the trial of William Edward Hickman, tried for the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker in December of 1927. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Charles Randall entering the Grand Jury chambers, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Charles H. Randall with hat in right hand and left hand on door knob. He is about to enter a room that reads "GRAND JURY, Witnesses Only, Entrance
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Reverend Glenn Randall Phillips, perhaps in a witness box in Superior Court, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Glenn Randall Phillips was the pastor at First Methodist Church of Hollywood as early as 1930.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Attorney Arthur L. Veitch testifying, 1929

Description:: Deputy District Attorney Arthur Veitch in the witness stand.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Rosslyn Hotel bus shuttling jury members from the Hall of Justice during the Hickman trial, 1928

Description:: William Edward Hickman confessed to the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. He was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial and executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

S.S. Hahn pointing in courtroom, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Description:: Photograph of attorney S. S. Hahn pointing during a courtroom proceeding
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Alfred Hickman, brother of William Edward Hickman, on the witness stand during his brother's trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Hickman was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: [circa February 3, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. Cecil E. Reynolds testifies on William Edward Hickman's mental condition, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Psychiatrist Cecil E. Reynolds, seated at the witness stand, analyzes murderer William Edward Hickman's mental state.
Date:: February 14, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Fletcher Bowron, Superior Court Judge (1926-1938) presiding in his courtroom, Los Angeles, 1926-1938

Description:: Fletcher Bowron, Superior Court Judge (1926-1938) presiding in his courtroom
Date:: [between 1926-1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Crowd of people in a courtroom during the Hickman kidnapping case, Los Angeles, 1927-1928

Description:: Crowded courtroom during the trial of William Hickman. The photo is very blurry because it was taken the moment people around the table were standing and moving. There is another camera set up as well.
Date:: [between 1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Detective Lieutenant Dick Lucas on the witness stand during the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, 1928

Description:: Photograph of Detective Lieutenant Richard "Dick" Lucas, seated on the witness stand. Lucas was one of several law enforcement officers who interrogated William Edward Hickman during his extradition by train from Pendleton, Oregon to Los Angeles.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

William Edward Hickman, kidnapper and murderer, with law enforcement officers, Los Angeles, 1927-1928

Description:: Photograph of (l to r): Assistant Jailer Roy Bogle, Jailer Frank Dewar, Deputy Sheriff Claude Peters, William Edward Hickman at center, facing Undersheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz. The two remaining men in the background are unidentified.
Date:: [1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

C. C. Julian in court, Los Angeles, 1926-1933

Description:: C. C. (Courtney Chauncey) Julian seated in the witness stand in a courtroom; the judge's chair is empty.
Date:: [between 1926-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Richard James Lucas on the witness stand, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Lucas sits on the witness stand with his hands folded in his lap.
Date:: February 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Phil Dodson and Harry J. Brown in courtroom, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Description:: Attorney Phil Dodson and Harry J. Brown, most likely film producer, sit at a table in a courtroom, probably in Los Angeles.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Frank M. Mikels on the witness stand during the Hickman trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: William Edward Hickman was executed in October 1928 for the kidnapping and murder of 12-year old Marion Parker. Mikels and the majority of other psychiatrists did not believe Hickman to be insane.
Date:: February 7, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Leo P. Kelley, charged with murder, before a judge with attorney S. S. Hahn, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Photograph of Leo P. Kelley (3rd from left) with his attorney S. S. Hahn (4th from left) in a courtroom before a judge. Two unidentified men are with them and three unidentified men are in the background. Kelley was tried for the murder of Myrtle Mellus.
Date:: [1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

S.S. Hahn gesturing in a courtroom, Los Angeles, 1920-1939

Description:: Samuel (Sammy) S. Hahn was a prominent defense attorney in the Los Angeles area.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Judge, clerk, lawyer and witness in a courtroom, (Los Angeles?), 1920-1939

Description:: Judge, clerk, lawyer and witness in a courtroom, related to a certain 'Denis Case.' Most likely in Los Angeles.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

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.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

District Attorney Asa Keyes charged with bribery and misconduct in office, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Los Angeles District Attorney Asa Keyes charged seated in a courtroom after being with bribery and misconduct.
Date:: November 1, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Victor McLaglen in court with his lawyers, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Victor McLaglen, center, sits in the front of a court room with his lawyers. A crowd of people sit in the stands.
Date:: August 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Oregon officer Thomas Gurdane, who helped capture William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Related to the article, "Hickman Confesses Kidnaping Girl, Fugitive caught in Breakneck Race with Oregon Officers," Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 1927: 1.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Courtroom during one of the cases against con man C. C. Julian, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 1926-1933

Description:: A crowded courtroom during one of the trials against con artist C. C. Julian.
Date:: [between 1926-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Deputy District Attorney James Costello and police captain Arthur Stoll during the murder trial of Leo P. Kelley, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Deputy District Attorney James Costello questions police captain Arthur Stoll, on the witness stand, during the murder trial of Leo P. Kelley. Stoll is identifying an article of clothing, said to belong to Kelley, which was found in the home of the murder victim, Myrtle Mellus.
Date:: September 5, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Dr. Victor Parkin, expert witness for the prosecution during the Hickman, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Parkin acted as one of several expert witnesses for the prosecution against William Edward Hickman, charged and ultimately convicted for the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, age 12. Hickman was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Jury of William Edward Hickman in the courtroom, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Photograph appears with headline, "Hickman Jury Returns Sanity Verdict in Thirty-six Minutes on First Ballot Taker," Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb 1928: 2.
Date:: February 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ed Rosenberg, Jack Rosenberg and Jacob Berman in court charged in the Asa Keyes bribery case, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Photograph of Ed Rosenberg (left), Jack Rosenberg (center), and Jacob Berman (alias Jack Bennett) in the courtroom of Judge Edmonds. They were charged with participation in a plot to bribe District-Attorney Asa Keyes to dismiss charges against them for their role in the over-issue of Julian Oil Corporation stock in 1927. They are seated at a table with blotters on it and with others seated behind them in the courtroom.
Date:: November 1, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

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.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

John Henry, owner of the Bellevue Arms apartments, where Marion Parker was held by William Edward Hickman, 1928

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Accused Slayer's Abode Gives Evidence of Hurried Departure," 21 Dec. 1927: 3.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Court document related to the Julian Petroleum fraud case, Los Angeles, 1926-1935

Description:: Court document related to the Julian Petroleum fraud case.
Date:: [betweeen 1926-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Judge Myron Westover presides in court during judicial proceedings, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Photograph of Judge Myron Westover presiding in court. Three men stand behind a man seated in the witness stand as a court reporter records the session.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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