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Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, picture taken before a fire occurred at the site on January 14, 1938

Description:
Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, where a fire occurred on January 14, 1938. Remarkably, 400 crippled and elderly men and women, as well as 20 children in the nursery, escaped the event unharmed. Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading throught the entire building, which had been in use since 1868. A short circuit in the electrical department on the ground floor was suspected to be the cause of the fire. Photograph looks to have been taken pre-fire
Date:
between 1925 and January 14, 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Crowd outside the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, picture taken before a fire occurred at the site on January 14, 1938

Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles

Description:
Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles. Los Angeles's Wrigley Field was built in 1925 and torn down in 1966. It was host to minor league baseball teams and home of the Los Angeles Angeles. The field is named after the same Wrigley as Wrigley Field in Chicago, but it actually received the name first and had more on-site parking than Chicago's field does now.
Date:
[between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Crowd watching a baseball game at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles

Dave Getzoff posing in chair, Los Angeles, circa 1928

Description:
Possibly Dave Getzoff who was a co-defendant, along with his father Ben Getzoff in the bribery case brought against District Attorney Asa Keyes in Janurary-February 1929. The case against Dave Getzoff was dismissed due to lack of evidence against him; however, his father, Ben Getzoff, was found guilty on conspiracy charges late in 1928.
Date:
Between 1928-1930?
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Dave Getzoff posing in chair, Los Angeles, circa 1928

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