Kidnapper William Edward Hickman is apprehended, Los Angeles County, 1934

Title: Kidnapper William Edward Hickman is apprehended, Los Angeles County, 1934
Date Created: June 1934
Date: 1934-06
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Hickman sits on a bench with his hands folded on top of a pile of blankets in his lap.
Photograph appears with the article, "A notice Kidnapping," Los Angeles Times, 17 June 1934: J4.
Seventeen people - men, women and children have during the past thirteen years been kidnapped by seventeen different kidnappers. They have all been captured by the authorities and several have been executed. Hickman was the only kidnapper who received any ransom money but he was apprehended before he could spend very much of it.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: HICKMAN, WILLIAM EDWARD
Handwritten on negative: Wm Edward Hickman
Text from newspaper caption: From the top of the "C" to the bottom: Gordon Stewart Northrop, Edward Hickman, Luella Pearl Hammer and E. H. Van Dorn. The first two were hanged. The second two were jailed.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Location: Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Criminals--California--Los Angeles County
blankets
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles County

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_9466
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dhj8n
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