Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-24
ROOM
YIELDS NEW CLUES.
Strengthens Theory Of Los
Angeles Police 1t Was There
Parker Girl Met Her Death.


apartment where William Edward
Hickman. confessed kidnapcr md nc.
crs"i slayer NJ litle Marion Parker,
made his home at the time Of the
atroc;ous crime, rivals n magician :
trick hat.
For In that apartment, first visited
hN officers who raided the house sun
day morning only II few hours after
III G, mp VS. made known the police
since have found q chain oi
evidence which convinces them that T.
vas there that the small victim met
her death. ON that first visit the
~ =" In tn" cog. acrU"d'n" To In"
apartment hou@e owner. sat M in
he'd Watching his purSuers as the!
searched his lair without arousin:;
heir suSpiciop.
Many Discoveries Made.
The chain of evidence began with
HE discovery that OF the towels
wrapped around IL part of the girl
body was obtained ut the apartment
house. In succeeding DAVIS the apart
ment yielded hlood4tained towels
stains which proved to he blood and
were made on the day 81
the murder: II strand of hair ident iffed
NJ Marians. a half Of n nutshell, the
other half having been found in u
pocket of the girls dress: a large
butcher knife and missing parts ol
newspapers. til" reminds Of which
had been used tn wrap the parts OF
the body Of the small victim.
Late yesterday the police believed
they had found the reason for the
absence Of suspicious ev dencp in that
first hurried search nf the apartment
when they discovered that in the two
weeks 1t had been occupied by Kick.
man. he had used the better part Of
10 bars az soap and two cans of clean
ing powder They believe that these
were used by HIM To erase the evi.
dence Of crime.
demonstrating the murder on this
evidence. the police believe that
Marian had been led to the apart.
ment under the impression she was
going Ia her father. who she had
been told was injured. The officers
believe that Hickman may have kept
her silent by threats. while he was
present In the apartment and perhaps
by anaesthetics In his absence.
New Analysis Ordered.
The police theor'Ze that on his re-
turn from an absence he might have
been unable tn revive the girl or found
her dead. He then dismemhered her
body tn permit IL to he taken from
the apartment without detection. 4
new analysis OF the lungs Of the slain
girl has been ordered to determine
anassthetics were < ven. The
hrst examination tended To show that
they had not been administered.
The search for the elusive Andrew
tramer,' named by ilici, man as the
actual murderer of the school girl.
took new start today.
The police ANNOUNCED that three
"Cramers" who had been investigated
hhd been cleared Of suspicion. Two
NJ them. Andrew Oliver tramer. also
X n0wn az Kramer. and his brother,
Frank cramer. have been prisoners
IA the county jail since last August
4 third brother. Albert cramer. has
been working for his father in I.anker.
SHIN the police said.
The police foresaw the collapse Of
This invest gat ion nv added fountia ion
for their contention that the implica
ton OF tramer and n June Dunning'
IN the confession was the work of a
plausible liar"
The pursuit of the June Cunning,
named ny Hickman. run up against
" hat the police declared was n blank
wall when Frank tramer told them
that Rose Cumming ment ioned by his
brother was Franks wife and that he
had never heard Of June Cunning.
Ills wife. he said. had n sister. Mable
Cunning. hut that she had died nine
months ago.
Craner Remembers Hickman.
The Andrew tEamer In Jail, when
shown liickinan's photograph. said he
had vague recollection OF knowing
him ana when pressed for the time.
declared Ii was about last June.
The police. however. as vet have
JAILED To obtain satisfactory answer
to the puzzling quantity Of clues and
testimony of Witnesses tending "a
show that Hickman had the aid OF
associates
They have not been able To solve
the problem of how the youthful!
Fox" brought into the case the
names nf Andrew crnmer and the
Cumming woman, for the name and
description VI cramer taiiies. despite
the ironolad alibi III his Jail term.
Considered as perhaps one III the
most Significant points of possible
supporting evidence Of Hickman
story ar an arcompiicc was the re.
port last night that strange,
answering the description of Andrew
ttamer" called at the Herald Hotel
In San Francisco the night after
Hickman had left there in his north
ern flight.
The stranger asked for the man In
BOZ. ilickman's room NJ the hotel
E.AA In. 4. t., -. L..
he had sald that he and tramer were
10 meet at the Herald Hotel In the
Bay Guy. Hickman has insisted that
he had no means Ut communicat ting
with t'ramer
just how tramer, IL II we're he had
been able tn know the number of Hick
mans room ut the hotel tperhaps con.
fused het ween l02 and hNp) was nm,
other puzzling question for the police.
Reported IN San Diego.
From san Diego came the report
which tossed new complications into
the raN", for an Andrew tTalner and
June iiunning We're reporIed there
last September ar pc,obsr.
i'l,nenlA. Aria. pnlic" Informed the
Los Angeles officers that WuInnu
knn&n IN June Cunning. IA well ~
under an alias, had been r%pnrted IL
them ~ being IN Laos Angeles last
Jniv, hnd In November hnd been al
\ Nan Diego hotel,
4 letter pnrportlnR to come from
The woman In the ras~" and signed
June" was passed by the police u.
Just another hoaA.e Its contents failed
10 chsck wnh The known facts In IN.
sia wing In several Instances
To these recent developments are
added numerous Indications In the
sailN Investigation uf the chss indi
eating that he kidnapping ~ ieant was
moi the ~ork ~ u single person,
These include
l. descriptions provided by iele,
gfHm clerks show that iva different
men fitted separate telegram nd
dressed ~ Perry N, Parker Marious
father, Ia connection with the ran
s,,in demands, one az the men wae
sc"umit0 ulud Ia the telegraph otiiu.
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