Photograph of Detective Lieutenant Richard J. "Dick" Lucas, one of the officers involved in the arrest of Thirteenth district councilman Carl I. Jacobson for violation of the moral code. The charges against the councilman were later dropped, and Detective Lucas was charged with the conspiracy to "frame" the Councilman. He was also freed of guilt, following which he resigned from the police force.
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.
Edward J. "Spike" O'Donnell stands in a courtroom near special investigator Dick Lucas (seated to O'Donnell's left with his legs crossed) and several unidentified men sitting in the audience. He wears a checked suit and is holding his coat over his left arm and his hands are crossed in front of him, holding his hat. He is receiving his sentence for pleading guilty for vagrancy.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Hickman on Way Here: Suicide Tried as Trip Starts. Kidnaper Attempts to Hang Himself in Cell of Jail; Dragged Out to Train. Prisoner Slipped into City of Portland to Foil Large Crowd at Station," 26 Dec. 1927: 1.