Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Dewar, Frank Duncan, 1883 or 84-1932 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Hickman had confessed to the kidnap for ransom and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. It is not clear as to whether this photo was taken during Hickman’s post-extradition arraignment in December of 1927, or his trial in 1928. Hickman was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Date:: [1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Frank D. Dewar receives an undersheriff badge from Sheriff William (Bill) Traeger in April, 1930.
Date:: April 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Standing from left to right: Los Angeles County Jailer Frank Dewar, Oregon police officer Cecil "Buck" Lieuallen, an unidentified male (probably a law enforcement officer), and Undersheriff Eugene Biscailuz, photographed inside Biscailuz's office. The photo was taken during the arraignment or trial of William Edward Hickman, who kidnapped and murdered Marion Parker, age 12.
Date:: [1927-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Murder suspect Lowell Bell seated at a desk beteeen undersheriff Frank Dewar (left) and deputy sheriff William J. Bright. Photo appears with the article "Las Confesses Teuber Murder: Ex-Sailor's Admissions to Reopen Inquiry San Diego Girl Hanging May Be Cleared Up Story Has Flaws but Clews Will Be Checked," Los Angeles Times, 02 Oct. 1931: A5.
Date:: Ocotber 1, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Undersheriff Frank Dewar (right) standing next to an unidentified man in front of a desk. The unidentified man holds a wooden box in his left hand and inhis right hand he holds the top of a box that had enclosed the wooden box, which wrapped in Chriatmas paper with a holly design on it and which is is labeled "Please no body else / personal to Mary / please." Dewar holds the bottom of the gift box. Behind them are what look like crime scene photographs and a map.
Date:: 1930/1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: William Edward Hickman, third from left, poses for a photograph with police officers and prison officials. On the far right is Los Angeles County Jailer Frank Dewar and second from right is Undersheriff Eugene Biscailuz.
Date:: February, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears in the article, "Dewar Quits in Gun Quiz. Sheriff Traeger Accepts Resignation of County Jailer and Appoints Capt. Peoples." Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 1929: A1.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Officer Lieuallen, along with police Chief Tom Gurdane (not in photo), captured Hickman in Echo, Oregon, after an 8-day manhunt. It is not clear whether this photo was taken during Hickman's post-extradition arraignment in December of 1927, or his trial in 1928.
Date:: [between 1927 and 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: Sidney Blair (left) is seated next to Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs Frank Dewar (center) and Norris G. Stensland (right). The three men are wearing suits and Mr. Blair is wearing a hat. Mr. Blair appears to be in the middle of being questioned by Mr. Stensland who is writing something down on a notepad. They are in a room that has photographs and rifles in a rack on the wall. Sidney Blair was involved in the McCartney divorce case, where he aided Grant McCartney in framing evidence against his ex-wife. Sidney Blair was indicted on charges of conspiring false evidence and assault. He was sentenced to San Quentin on May 19, 1924. Related to the article "Fear of Gun is Blair Plea," Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 1924: A1.
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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