Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Couple Tell of Watching Two
Men Place Bundles
in Auto.
ACCUSED KNOWN TO THEM
UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME
Suspect Freed When Fingerprints
Fail to Tally-Thousands Of
Police Continue Hunt.
By the Associated Press.


Further substantiation of the theory
that William Edward Hickman had
an accomplice in the kidnapping and
Staying of 12-year-old Marian Parker
was disclosed with announcement by
police today that two persons had
seen Hickman and another man carry
several bundles from the Bellevue
Arms Apartments. where Hickman
lived, and place them ir a coupe.
The information was given by n
m i and his wife who know Hickman
as Donald Evans, the name he used
at the apartment house. The police
did not reveal the names of the in.
formants.
Seen Saturday Night.
The couple, who reported seeing
Hickman and the other man, Eve at
the apartment house where the kid
naper is believed by police to have
slain the schoolgirl and dismembered
her body They were returning to
their rooms at about 6 o'clock Satur-
day evening two hours before mask
ed man, riding in a stolen automobile,
brought back the torn ami lifeless
bot Of little Marian to her distracted
father for $500 ransom. The woman
said she remarked to her husband:
why. that's young Donald Evans.
isn't it?''
Her husba nd answered in the affirm
ative and the wife amusedly remarked
that it seemed that Hickman and his
friend were going on party. as they
were carrying several packages, de
scribed as heavily wrapped and
about the length of a wine bottle"
They also were carrying suitcase.
The unidentified companion of Hick-
man held open the door Of the auto
mobile while Hickman placed the bun
dies inside. No more was seen by
the man and his wife. as they thought
nothing of the matter.
To Seek Another.
After hearing the story of the
couple Chief OF Detectives Herman
Cline Immediately ordered officers to
continue their investigation on the
theory that Hickman was aided by at
least one other person in his revolving
crime
A youth who gave his name as Sid
ney Farkas, arrested today and held
on the possibility that he might be
Hickman. was released later when his
finger prints failed to tally with those
OF the man wanted.
The youth was taken into custory
between Santa Monica. and Beverly
Hills suburbs.
The officers said that he answered
the general description OF Hickman
and his likeness to the hunted man
was striking.
Trail Picked Up.
The cold trail of the fugitive who
dashed through downtown streets
early yesterday and escaped from q
pursuing citizen, who later identified
him as Hickman, was picked up by
police today.
New information was that the blue
auto in which the man outdistanced
filing station attendant seeking to
collect $1.03 for gasoline had been
stolen from Edward S. Scheller, and
late last night figured in a crash on
the South Side.
When the man believed to be Hick-
man escaped from the filling station
attendant. Jack Wood, at Second and
Broadway. block and half from
central police station. Wood reported
the affair, identified Hickman's photo
graph and scores of detectives were
From then until the accident and
theft report today. no trace of the
youth and the big blue automobile had
been found.
Youths Past Probed.
While a cloud of clues and false
leads today screened the hiding place
of Hickman. bits of evidence were be-
ing fitted together by police to solve
the puzzle of his past.
This evidence pictured youthful
"Dr. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde"-one a
neat, orderly boy who attended church
and Sunday school, and never STAYED
out late at night; the other, ''the
Fox who for weeks planned the car
rying out of cool, cunning and dia-
bolical murder plot for revenge,
The latter picture showed him for
three weeks preceding the kidnapping,
staging series of drugstore robberies
to obtain a stock of anesthetics and
sleeping potions. In one Of these rob-
berries. he is declared to have placed a
pistol in the druggists ribs and forced
the frightened man to give minute
instructions as to the use of the
anesthetics.
Druggists in the three hold-ups posi-
lively identified Hickman as the rob-
per from pnOtOSrapnS.
Another part of the same picture
was cool and daring youth, who on
Monday morning. with thousands of
officers combing Los Angeles and the
vicinity, drove an automobile over
county roads with no effort of con:
cealment.
Seen i'm Suburb.
At that time he was seen driving a
small car through Culver City, sub
urb. He hailed a motor cycle agent to
whom he was known and told him he
would be In the next day to buy
machine. He failed to keep that ap-
pointment.
Although the 5000 police who had
been set on the trail were unable 10
run him TO earth, they definitely 10.
Gated his lair which he had occupied
during the days that little Marian
was kidnapped and until Sunday. sev.
eral hours after the child's dismem.
bered body had been exchanged for
her fathers $1,500 ransom money.
What was thought to be hot lead
resulting in posse being organized
in Redlands. Calf. turned out to be
a youthful escape from a detention
home in San Bernardino. near there.
Another angle of the police case col
lapsed last night when Milton Jakow.
sky. 25. friend of Hickman, was re-
leased after having been held in Jail
as suspected accomplice.
Jakowshy. said TO be a native Of
Kansas. was arrested when q neigh
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