Genre: notes / Resource Type: still image / Names: Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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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 Created:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: This notebook was confiscated after Hickman's capture in Echo, Oregon, and was examined to ascertain whether Hickman had a female accomplice in the kidnapping. Fingerprints appear above the text.
Date Created:: [1927 or 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Suicide notes found on the body of A. R. Driskell, grandfather of Welby Hunt, accomplice with William Edward Hickman in the murder of pharmacist C. Ivy Toms. The handwriting was not analyzed when Driskell took his life (May 25, 1927), but his relationship to Hunt and Hickman brought his death into question during the C. Ivy Toms murder investigation and trial (1927-1928). Both Welby Hunt and William Hickman are referenced in the notes. Initial handwriting comparisons suggested that not all the notes were written by Driskell. An investigation led by George Contreras, chief investigator for the District Attorney's office, concluded that the death was a suicide.
Date Created:: [1927 or 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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