Oregon officer Thomas Gurdane, who helped capture William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1928

Title: Oregon officer Thomas Gurdane, who helped capture William Edward Hickman, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created: 1928
Date: 1928
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Related to the article, "Hickman Confesses Kidnaping Girl, Fugitive caught in Breakneck Race with Oregon Officers," Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 1927: 1.
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.
Hickman was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.
Caption: Handwritten on negative sleeve: Tom Gurdane
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Gurdane, Thomas B., 1872-1968
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10441
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbdjv
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Rights Country: US
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