Ethel Broderick, Bellevue Arms apartment manager, photographed during the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Ethel Broderick, Bellevue Arms apartment manager, photographed during the Hickman kidnap and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Date Created

1928

Date

1928

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Ethel Broderick, Bellevue Arms apartment manager, seated, wearing a hat and overcoat. Broderick was probably photographed during the trial of William Edward Hickman, who confessed to the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker in December of 1927.
Ethel Broderick is noted in the Los Angeles Times article, "Hickman Believed in Seattle; Bill Passed: Parker Girl Murder Suspect Arrest Expected to be Made Any Hour; Photograph Identified," 22 Dec. 1927: 1.
Hickman held the girl at an apartment he rented in Broderick's building. Hickman was sentenced to death after a 13-day trial. He was executed at San Quentin, October 19, 1928.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Ethel Broderick
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Broderick, Ethel
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles