Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-20
Youth FIees in Auto as 100
Police Try to Block
Street.
FORMER BANK EMPL0YE
is NAMED AS MURDERER
Crime Laid to Vengeance Against
Slain Girls Father-Friend
Of Accused Is Held.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 20.-A
man believed to be William Edward
Hickman, named by police as the STAY
ar of Marian Parker. driving what the
police think is his second stolen auto
mobile, slipped through tremendous
police dragnet this morning ana
escaped capture by minute.
So close was the chase that a short
time later a report reached police
headquarters of his arrest, but 1t
proved a mistake, and upward OF
1000 peace officers of southern Cali
fornia continued the drive.
Stops at Gas Station.
Just before dawn a blue car pulled
into a filling station on West Sixth
street. The driver asked for FIVE gal
ions of gasoline, got it and requested
a new bulb for one of his headlights.
While the attendant was inside the
building getting the light, the car
pulled out at top speed. Jack Woods,
the attendant, jumped into his auto
mobile and gave chase, not for
fugitive with 100000 on his head,
but to collect $1.03 for the gasoline.
At@top speed the two cars thunder
ed down Sixth street to Broadway,
the main business artery Of the city.
Fugitive Gains.
They swung into Broadway going
north, with the fugitive gaining. Some
one telephoned police about the MAD
chase, which was headed almost
directly for the headquarters OF
Herman II. Cline. chief of detectives
in charge of the man hunt.
The detective chief threw a squad
of 100 officers into the street at a
moments notice. Before they couio
reach that intersection the fugitive.
without slowing down, sped east and
escaped in the darkness. Later Wood
said Hickman was the fugitive, Judg-
ing from the photographers at police
headquarters.
Meanwhile a heavy guard was
thrown around Central police station,
where a man, whose name was not
divulged, but who is said by Cline
to have been an intermediary be-
tween the abductor and the Parker
family, is being held. This man. an
aviation enthusiast. came here re-
Gently from Kansas City, former home
of Hickman.
The unnamed alleged accomplice
made one desperate bid for freedom
in the Jail.
This young man, powerful IN build,
Ieaped on the guard who opened his
cell door. slugged him and was at
tempting to obtain the officers keys
when the noise of the struggle brought
other policemen running.
1t required the efforts of four Of
ficers to subdue the prisoner. who was
locked in another cell. screaming
threats against the police and crying
that he would take his own life. Two
guards were stationed over him TO
prevent any attempt at suicide.
Hickman Is Accused.
Detectives pointed to the slayer's
use of the aviation term solo" in the
ransom notes as proof that the ar
rested man might have acted at least
in an advisory capacity in the pennlng
of the death missives.
Hickman, a youth, former employee
of the Los Angeles First National
Trust & Savings Bank, was declared
by Chief of Detectives Cline today to
have been absolutely identified" as
the murderer of Marian, 12-year-oid
daughter of Perry Parker, one Of the
banks officers.
The motive of the atrocious crime.
police declared, apparently was ven-
geance. Parker an assistant cashier,
was the only bank official who opposed
the youths plea for probation after
he had pleaded guilty sometime ago
TO charges of forging checks. Arrest
on that charge was responsible for
his discharge from the bank and
Parker had urged that Hickman
should he given a prison or Jail term.
Hickman, however, was paroled to
his mother, then living in Alhambra,
Calf.
Family Has Moved
Announcement that Hickman had been
identified both by finger print and
photograph as the kidnaper and slayer
of the child, was made by nClice after
it had been determined that ne vas
not at his Alhambra address. Neigh
bors said the family moved a month
ago to Kansas City.
The police photograph was identified
by Miss Neona Britten, a school teach
err at the Mount Vernon Junior High
School. as the man who led little
Marian away.
Hickman's finger prints, on file with
the Police Identification Bureau as a
result of his previous arrest, checked
with those found on the rear window
of a coupe used by the slayer when
he delivered the child's torso to her
father and received for it 81 500, and
also with prints found on ransom let
tiers sent Parker. police said.
Experts who examined the hand
writing on the ransom letters, COM
it with that on the applica-
ton OF Hickman for employment
ar the bank. said the TWO were iden-
tea,
E.cHc:2::'s @@ge-p-.1.ts also we-e
.cecc.ca. with r@ose discovered On
the ransom letters.
Cesc-ip::c. Broadcast.
News CT the positive identification
OF Hickman was withheld until early
this morning, when it had been deter
mined that the man was not to be
found at his former Alhambra home.
His description will be broadcast over
the entire Nation.
Chief Deputy District Attorney
Harold Davis declared that he re.
garded the evidence obtained by
police as conclusive.
A quiet funeral service at the little
Church of Flowers. in Glendale, a
suburb. today was the final tribute
to Marian Parker.
In memory of Marian, "a joyous
child" loved by her school chums
and the idol Of her own family, the
church was banked with flowers.
Only the parents and a few close
relatives were present at the services.
The body was cremated.
Man Hunt Starts Anew.
All the agencies Of the law here
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