The Washington times., 1927-12-19
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aGrOclOuS crimes IN tue nlStOFy
of civilized city.
Runs Out Screaming
A few hours after Perry NJ.
Parker stopped to the road to take
to his, arms what he then believed
was his living daughter, a stock
ing-footed woman screaming, ran
out of the house. two doors away.
II didn't kill herl / didn't kill
her." the hysterical woman
shouted.
Believing the woman to be
drunk, officers led her off to jail.
Detectives Search House.
Becoming susp. .cious of the house
from which the woman fled. de.
tectives entered to find five bloody
heel marks on the floor. They were
Enthusiastically mans footmarks.
Following the red footprints the
investigators were led into bath.
room and kitchen of the house.
Here they found dried blood
blotches on the floor.
A batch of razor blades, ap.
parently blood-crusted, had been
ditched in the corner of the living
room.
A book-"The Murders in the
Rue Morgue,' by Poe--and a picture
of Judas Iscariot, the betrayer OF
Christ, added to the ominous at.
mosphere of the place.
Man Is FOunds
Frightened by the intrusion. a
man stepped hesitatingly out of a
darkened room and met the Off.
GERS with a blanched face.
He falteringly explained that he
lived in the house alone and that
his "landlady" had gone away and
he did not know where to find her.
The man was unable to explain
the coincidence when he said the
name of his landlady happened to
be Mrs. Parker
He gave his own name as Will
liam Long and when taken to police
headquarters and confronted by a
woman who had run out OF the
house, he said the suspect was his
daughter.
Woman Is Held
The woman gave her name AS
Lillian Padley and after being ques-
toned behind closed doors, finally
was placed in an isolated cell on
suspicion of murder and man.
slaughter.
The man who said he was her
father was released after being sub
jected to a long grilling.
The intensive manhunt for the
murderer took a new tack today
when the life of Marion's twin sis
ter Marjorie was threatened.
'I'll get Marjorie. too" was the
menacing threat scrawled on q
piece of note paper found sticking
on a fire alarm box when firemen
answered a false alarm.
Signed THE Fox"
The note was signed "The Fox,
the alias used by the kidnaper
killer.
Flaunting his cunning in this
face of the authorities the fugitive
butcherer. If he is the writer of the
ominous note, defied police TO cap
ture him in what the clever fox
seems to have turned into a game
of hare and hounds.
You can't catch me-" was hi!
mocking challenge.
The warning, addressed to p. NJ
Parker. the slain girls father, read
For the trouble you have caused
Marjorie Parker will be the mex
victim. Nothing can stop the Fo,
and they who try will know tn,
penalty.
IF you warn anyone of thi,
second success, 1t will mean you
neck.
TRY and get me.
II am the Fox.
You shall never know the rest o.
this first success.
You viii miss her at ~ o'clock.
Police on Extra Duty.
All police officers in Los An
geles have been placed on 16-hour
duty in the search for the slayer
of the little girl.
Citizens have offered total o.
more than $4,000 reward moneN
for the arrest and conviction of thu
slayer. At periods during yesterday
and last night appeals broadcast by
radio brought in an average of $5t
minute. Today is expected to set
the rewards reach a sum unprece
dented in the history of this region
Another suspect, one of score,
questioned. is still being detained
here. He is held on suspicion ol
grand theft. Police withheld hi
name, but he was said to be the 25
year-old son of local physician. i
was said he had been suspected o.
crimes against children in the past
and to have had knowledge of af
fairs of the Parker family.
One Suspect Freed
A school teacher who saw the kid
naper take the child from her schoo
by a ruse last Thursday, was sum
moned to view the suspect.
Police said she declared she couli
not say whether or not he was tn,
man in question.
Release OF a suspect held at La!
Vegas, New, was directed in a tele
gram sent by local police late las
night. This man, proceeding b,
stage from Los Angeles to ST. Louis
was detained at Las Vegas becaus,
OF information he had paid his far,
IN $2O bills, the entire amount O
the 81 500 ransom money being il
bills OF that denomination.
Cleared Of Suspicion
Los Angeles police said investiga
tion revealed that the suspect ha,
obtained his money from q sourc,
which cleared him of all suspicion
poupt that the man had any con
nection with the crime had been ex
pressed previously by Los Angelo,
gefectives who had gone to La.
Vegas by airplane.
several districts Of Tia Juana
Mexico, are being combed in a search