Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-30
|H|Ck MAN
|0(JTRACES
INCREASE
Police Seek to Prove
"FOx" and Young Hunt
Killed Driskell.
YOUTHS GRILLED
Pair Expected to Tell
of Other Crimes In
Many Cities.
By DAN CAMPBELL
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.-Will-
lam Edward Hickman's known mur-
der victims may number three be-
fore another day passes, detectives
Investigating circumstances sur
rounding the mysterious death last
spring of A. r. Driskell, wealthy
dry goods merchants, indicated to-
day.
Driskell, grandfather of Welby
Hunt. 16-vearold bandit accomplice
of "The Fox,' was found dead at
the foot of the famous Colorado
Street bridge in Pasadena, May %.
An inquest was never held, as the
coroner held the death was suicide.
Undersheriff Eugene Riscailuz,
who obtained Hickman confession
Of the shooting of Ivy Thoms, Rose
!Iill druggist, expressed the belief
taat there was enough evidence to
link Hickman with the death of
Driskell and the facts probably
will be laid before the special grand
jury session next Tuesday.
Driskell, man of 60, had with
drawn large sum of money from
the bank the day his body was
found beneath the high bridge. Ac-
cording to police the money has
naver been accounted for and de-
tectives are now working on this
phase of his death.
At the time Hickman enters his
plea Tuesday to charges of kidnap-
;pg and numbering Marion Parke-,
District Attorney Asa Keyes plans
10 ask the grand jury for new
murder Indictment against Hick-
nan for the Christmas eve Staying
of Thoms.
"'The report of the assistant
county autopsy surgeon has estab-
lished that Thoms was killed with
y .3S caliber revolver bullet,
keyes said. "Hickman admitted
in his confession that he was using
.3S revolver, while Hunt main
tanned that his gun was .33 auto
matte
Ask Second Indictment
81 intend to ask the grand jury
TO return another indictment "a
gainst Hickman charging him with
Inc murder of Thoms based upon
the fact that he confessed to par
ticipating in the holdup and that
SO caliber bullet caused Thoms'
DEATH Keyes said. %
81 will ask also that young Hunt
he named in the Indictment. AS
an accomplice of Hickman he mus.
he held equally guilty despite the
fact that he maintains that he did
not fire a shot, the district attor-
nev declared.
Hunt asserts that he did no..
open fire when a policeman entered
tne drug store and frustrated the
holdup that ended in gun battle
but this fact will not release him
from a murder charge, as set forth
in the penal code of California.
Meanwhile, the amazing revela-
:ions of "The Fox,' whose daring
depredations ran from coast to
ruast, have resulted in the arrest
of Frank Bernoudy, 20, of Kansas
City.
With the confessions of the three
youths, police in a dozen cities have
been asked to search records in an
effort to determine the exact
crimes the youthful trio perpetrat-
ed. 1t is believed others will be
drawn into the net before the af-
fair is finished.
On this theory, the grand jury
Will be given all available evidence
Tuesday, Keyes said, and will
check thoroughly every detail to
ascertain gaps in the story of
Hickman s career in crime as out
lined by the youth himself.
Several periods of time have not
been accounted for, as yet, and this
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