Subject: Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Thomas Edward Dugger, known as "Ape Man", was convicted of eleven felonies related to the robbery, kidnapings, and assault of three women. Dugger was indicted on April 4, 1935 and sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on February 18, 1936.
Date:: Between 1935-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: This unidentified negative is grouped together with negatives for the case of Thomas Edward Dugger, convicted of eleven felonies related to the robbery, kidnappings, and assault of three women. Dugger was indicted on April 4, 1935 and sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on February 18, 1936.
Date:: [between 1935-1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thomas Edward Dugger, known as "Ape Man", was convicted of eleven felonies related to the robbery, kidnapings, and assault of three women. Dugger was indicted on April 4, 1935 and sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on February 18, 1936.
Date:: Between 1935-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thomas Edward Dugger, known as "Ape Man", was convicted of eleven felonies related to the robbery, kidnapings, and assault of three women. Dugger was indicted on April 4, 1935 and sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on February 18, 1936.
Date:: Between 1935-1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A line of men and women, both seated and standing, wait within the Los Angeles Courthouse to witness judicial proceedings for William Edward Hickman, who confessed to kidnapping and murdering Marion Parker, aged 12. Hickman was tried and sentenced to death. He was executed at San Quentin, October 22, 1928.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1935: Allen H. McPherson … special deputy sheriff of San Bernardino County … was beaten and carried away in a black sedan … late last Tuesday, according to his companion, Hugh E. Smalley … San Bernardino. ... Near Alpine Street and North Broadway ... two men began to beat McPherson ... was forcibly loaded into the black sedan and driven away. ...
Date:: July 4, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Photograph was taken during the trial of Luella Pearl Hammer and Howard Von Dorn, who were charged with the kidnapping of Mary B Skeele, wife of a USC professor.
Date:: [between February - April 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Photograph of men being searched by sheriffs during the trial of William Edward Hickman, who kidnapped and murdered 12-year-old Marion Parker in December of 1927. The men were photographed in a room or partitioned area at the Los Angeles courthouse. The man kneeling at right is Deputy Sheriff M. G. Weybright.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Ransom letter, demanding money for the return of kidnapping victim Mary B. Skeele, wife of Walter Skeele, the Professor of Organ and Dean of the College of Music at the University of Southern California. The ransom was paid and Mrs. Skeele was returned unharmed.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: This arraignment followed Hickman's return from Pendleton, Oregon, where he was held pending an extradition decree. The proceeding was carried over to December 29th, giving time for defense counsel, Jerome Walsh, to arrive from Kansas City, Missouri.
Date:: December 27, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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