Helen Seelye and Ina Branson, prosecution witnesses in the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928

Title: Helen Seelye and Ina Branson, prosecution witnesses in the Hickman kidnapping and murder trial, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created: 1928
Date: 1928
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Related to the article articles: "Hickman Trial in Final Stage," Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 8 1928: A1; "Family Stands by Girl Slayer," Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 1928: A1
Helen Seelye (seated at left), wearing a fur-trimmed jacket, and Ina Branson, both of whom testified at the trial of William Edward Hickman, who confessed to the kidnap and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. Both Western Union employees, Helen Seelye identified one of the two telegrams sent to Marion Parker's father; Ina Branson identified Hickman as the man who sent the kidnap telegrams.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Helen Seelye. Ina Branson
Text from negative sleeve: Hickman, William Edward

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Seelye, Helen
Hickman, William Edward, 1908-1928
Parker, Marion, 1915-1927
Branson, Ina
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Witnesses--California--Los Angeles
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Homicides--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10471
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbfkv
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