Photograph of Elias Kahn, seated, wearing a three-piece suit and tie. Kahn was a juror in the trial against William Edward Hickman, convicted of kidnapping and murdering 12-year-old Marion Parker.
Hakes and Wadley were both clerks at a grocery frequented by Hickman and his mother when they lived in Alhambra, California. Walter Price was a gas station attendant, also of Alhambra. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Photograph of County Jail prisoner Dale Budlong, prosecution witness in the trial of William Edward Hickman, confessed kidnapper and murderer of Marion Parker, age 12.
Photograph of Thomas B. Gurdane, Chief of Police, Pendleton, Oregon, who was involved in the chase and capture of William Hickman. Hickman was captured in Echo, Oregon, after an eight-day manhunt following the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker.
In December of 1927, 12-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped for ransom and murdered by William Edward Hickman, who had previously worked with her father, Perry M. Parker, at First National Bank. Hickman confessed to the crime and was sentenced to death in February of 1928 after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Elizabeth Evans accused ex-husband William H. W. Evans of stealing their daughter, 6 year old Deirdre Evans, and William was arrested Thanksgiving Day, 1936. Charges were dismissed in February 1937.
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.
This is a portrait of Thomas B. Gurdane, Chief of Police, Pendleton, Oregon, who was involved in the chase and capture of William Hickman. Hickman was executed in October 1928 for the kidnapping and murder of 12-year old Marion Parker.
John Henry, proprietor of the Bellevue Arms apartment building (1170 Bellevue Avenue), who positively identified William Edward Hickman as the occupant of apartment No. 315.