The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-20
POLICE CLAIM
WE. HICKMAN IS
WANTED
Former Employe Of Los An.
geles Bank Of Which Girls
Father Was Officer
FINGER PRINTS PROOF.
Was Discharged Six Months
Ago After Being Arrest.
ed For Forgery
FINGER PRINTS PROOF.

Los Angeles, Calf, Dec. 2O.--@
All the agencies Of the law were
unleashed today and set upon the
trail Of the mere boys seemin9ly
mild hammered former bank en-.
ployc-who has been named b. the
police rs the kidnaper who xiur-
dered and mutilated little Marian
Parker and then bartered her body
to her father for $500.
Tho intensive search, given i'm
petus by the fact that . price Of
100000 has been placed on his
head, got under way this morning
after the police had announced that
William Edward Hickman, former
employe Of tho Los Angeles First
Trust and Savings bank, had been
positively identified through finger
prints and photographs a the slay-
er of the 12-year-old daughter Of
Perry Parker, an officer Of the
bank.
Boy Disappears
Chief Of Detectives Herman Cline.
made public the findings Of his in
vestigation after police had visited
the youths home in Alhambra,
Calf, and learned the young man
was not there. His mother, Mrs.
Eva N. Hickman, lives in Kansas
City.
The motive for the kidnapping.
Staying and dissection Of Marian
was supplied in the police hypothe-
sis. Hickman two years aso was
given q job in the bank. He worked
as clerk until six months ago
when arrested for forgery.
Admitting having traced sigma
lures from checks entrusted In his
care, the youth confessed and was
paroled to his mother. Police be.
lieve Hickman got the erroneous
impression that Parker had opposed
his application for parole and had
urged prison sentence.
Sequel to Forgery
Last Thursday came the. sequel 70
the forgery case, a. constructed BY
Chief Cline. A young man called
at the junior high school which
Marian attended and said her father
had been injured and was calling
for her. The unsuspecting school
officials released. her from class
and the stranger drove away with
her.
When Marian failed to return
home, the search was begun. Next
day Parker received q telegram re-
vealing that she was In the hands
O.. kidnaper who threatened des,
perate measures unless he was
given 81 500 and allowed to make 3
getaway without fear Of police in
tervention.
Parker. distracted, appealed to
the law and started to keep Z rem.
devious with the kidnaper while the
police wstched from q distance. The
willy kidnaper failed to appear.
Three OF four letters threatened
death to Marian, and two plaintive
notes signed by the girl herself
then came to the distracted parents.
In desperation, Parker asked the
police to withdraw because Of fears
for the life of the child.
Meeting Arranged
The banker last Saturday night
drove to q place near the Parker
home on instructions from the kid
naper, taking $500 in $50 bills. A
mysterious automobile approached
and q masked man leaned out and
inquired about the money. Parker
asked to see his little girl.
The masked man pointed to
wrapped form in the seat beside
him. "She's asleep" he said, and
then ordered the banker to hand
oyer the money, saying he would
leave the girl > short distance
ahead.
The stranger drove away With
the money. A few feet ahead Of
Parker's car he hurled the wrapped
form Of Marian to the ground. With
q cry Parker gathered IL in his
arms. The little girl had been killed
and cut to pieces.
Identificgtion Positive
Finger prints taken from the
ransom notes and from the wheel Of
the killers abandoned automobile
were found to correspond with those
taken by the police six months ago
when he was "mugged" for the
forgery charge.
Hickman's photograph In the po-
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