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Description:: Text reads: Miss West We told you before $1000 or you have your face lifted Sunday by 8 o clock or by God we will get your face at Western and Sunset you persona lly Acid Burns
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Two photographs placed side-by-side, each displaying an enlarged right fingerprint. Thirteen-points of comparison are drawn on each image. The prints were believed to belong to William Edward Hickman, who kidnapped and murdered 12-year old Marion Parker in December of 1927.
Date:: [1927 or 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Playing card sent between Charles Johnston and Dorothy Smith, before Johnston murdered Smith. Collected by Los Angeles police investigators.
Date:: April 16, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Handwritten note with references to Aimee Semple McPherson and Mr. Gordon.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Notebook described in the article, "Hickman Makes His Plea Today: Murderer Expected to Offer Insanity Excuse," Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 1928: A2.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a cashier's check application for the Crocker First National Bank, used as evidence used against Sidney T. Graves during his trial for bribery.
Date:: [between Feb. 1933 - Mar. 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Text reads: Acid is a horrible thing to throw in one's face so beau tiful in the height s of her career you can lose a $1000 or a 1,000,000 we are determind to get it. We want that money no later than nine oclock Monday nite at the other end of Warner Bros Studio in the last tree palm tree if the extortion squad is there we will by our oth get you and spoil your face for all time you know where the last tree is by the gate on the corner stick it in the tree by the palns and dont try to stop who gets it tie a handkerchief on the wall there opposite the tree if you fail to meet our demands. We will shoot a air gun at you within ten da's and we are good shots OVER
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Accused Slayer's Abode Gives Evidence of Hurried Departure," 21 Dec. 1927: 3.
Date:: December 20, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: William Edward Hickman, wanted for the kidnap and murder of Marion Parker, was captured in Echo, Oregon, after an eight-day manhunt. In his initial confession (given while in Oregon) he named an alleged accomplice who drove a Ford coup. That detail is noted in the article, "Detailed Confession Made by "The Fox": Amazing Account of Conversing With Detectives and Following Police Cars at Rendezvous After Kidnapping Given by Hickman," Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 1927: 1.
Date:: 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Another court document for a C. C. Julian case has a caption identifying it as an exhibit in a case in Judge Doran's court (image ark no. 21198/zz002cv8xp). Proceedings against C. C. Julian in Judge Doran's court are reported in the Los Angeles Times from 1926 through 1928.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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