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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
Youth Successfully
Defies Mankaunt For
Nearly One Week

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 81 R)-For
nearly one entire week q 10 year old
boy criminal has defied the police
force of Los Angeles.
For the past four days of that per-
iod, presumably single-handed and
virtually friendless, William E. Hick-
man, the youth accused of kidnapping
and numbering Marian Parker, has
set at .naught probably the closest
meshed man-hunt in this nations his
tory.
He has accomplished the seemingly
impossible, and retained his liberty, in
the face of q reward of upwards OF
100000 offered for him, dead or alive
Since Monday night his photograph
printed and reprinted in newspapers
has been made as familiar in the
homes of southern California as the
house numbers over their doors, and
by motorcycle, mail and telephoto wire
it has been sent ITO the four corners OF
the country.
Seven thousand police officers in this
section alone, with other hundreds OF
thousands in other cities, and millions
of pairs of civilian eyes, their owners
stirred by the revolving crime, have
scanned. every face and figure that
bore any similarity to those of the
hunted youth, to bring about his ar
rest.
Yet he remains free, a boy against a
nation.
He has money, $500, which he took
from a fathers hand before he threw
at that fathers feet the mutilated torso
of the 2 year old child.
But the money, rs $2O-bills, is mark
ed almost as plainly as though the
treasury notes bore the notice, "thi'
money is carried by Hickman" fol-
the serial numbers on them = K
68O16901 to K-68O1975, inclusive-have
been broadcast as far as telegraph
wires can take them. Every $20-bill
in the United States has become an
object of suspicion. An attempt tC
change one demands investigation.
Brains, personality, nerve and luck
says the police, so far have kept -Hick-
man a free man.
His known versatility and the
records of his past demonstrate to the
pursuing officers that the quarry has
brains in plenty.
In school his class standing was
high, he was a leading deb2ter. HI
was above the average in athletics, be-
cause he made" the basketball team
of an organization in his former home
town. Kansas City. He had musica
ability sufficient to play in theatr;
orchestras, and histrionic talent enough
to carry roles in amateur theatricals
Deserted by his father, he has made
his way in the world since he was {
young boy.
The cool, calculating nerve of tht
young man who kidnapped Marian
Parker, sent her banker-father a SER
les of telegrams and letters that finally
brought forth the $1,000 ransom anc
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
HICKMAN CLOSE
TO CAPTURE SAY
old NEIGHBORS
Apartment DweIlers Tell of
Police Search Sunday
Morning.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 81 tR-Resi-
dents at Bellevue Arms apartments,
where the police have determined
that william Edward Hickman, ac-
cused slayer of Marian Parker, made
his home during the days of the kid
naping and murder, tonight dis
closed how close to capture the fugi-
tive came last Sunday morning when
the apartment house was raided by
100 police officers.
John Henry, owner of the apart
ment house, said he was accompany
ing four policemen when they reached
apartment 315, the one occupied by
Donald Evans" since identified as
Hickman.
'I knocked on the door and the
man 1 had known as Evans called
out, asking what was wanted" said
Henry. "I looked in when the door
was opened and saw Evans sitting
up in bed as the four police Off
GERS entered and made a search"
A couple days later, Henry said,
after the question of whether the
accused "fox" had met the searching
officers in his own lair, became a
matter OF controversy between sher-
ifs office and police, a police officer
returned and attempted to tell him
that Hickman was not in the apart
ment at the time OF the raid.
Mrs. Ethel Broderick, manager OF
the apartments, probably was the last
person to see Hickman in the build
ing.
"Well, what's all the excitement
about?' she quoted him as saying
as he strolled through the lobby in
leaving the apartment house soon
after the Sunday raid. The question
was not answered by the numerous
curious guests who were passing in
and out OF the entrance or examining
the teII-tale towel which had brought
the police down upon the apartment
house. The towel was one found with
the dismemhered body of the small
girl.
Hickman apparently did not expect
an answer, she said, but continued
to saunter out of the building in
which the police just before had made
their room to room hunt.
Two residents OF the apartment
house since have told the police that
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22

then delivered her mutilated remains
to him in the heart of closely-built
residential district at 8 o'clock on a
Saturday night, is demonstrated by
these very acts. y
Hickman's personality, on which all
his acquaintance here lay emphasis,
is declared to be ingratiating and
pleasing. 1t was sufficient to impress
a trained school official and obtain
possession of the little girl without a
single written word to authorize his
taking her away from her studies at
midday.
His luck, the police believe, has play
ed big part in his escape so far, but,
they add, it cannot hold forever
Two factors, according to detec-
tives on the case, will lead to his ar
rest, if he is taken alive. One is his
fingerprints, made in police records
here when he was arrested for forgery
last summer. His fingerprints led to
the automobile which he used, identi-
fled the apartment in which he lived
pinned on him, say his hunters, the
ransom and death messages sent to
the Parker home, and are expected
eventually to convict him.
Then there is the blood money TAX
en- from the victims father
The police declare that no young
man, with $500 in his pockets, will
resist forever the temptation to spend
some of it, even realizing the danger;
and when he does the hand of justice
will reach for his shoulder.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
INSANITY TRIAL
OF REMUS SET
FOR DEC. 28TF]

CINCINNATI, Dec. 81 (P)-The three
court alienists who testified for the
prosecution during the murder trial
that George Remus "iS now sane" will
be the former ''bootlegger kings" major.
hope for complete freedom for Staying
his wife, Imogene, when his probate
court sanity hearing opens December
SO.
AS another complexity arising from
the jury verdict yesterday that George
Remus was mot guilty of murder on
the sole ground of insanity County
Prosecutor Charles P. Taft II, finds
himself representing the county in an
investigation of the sanity of the man
who the prosecution throughout the
murder trial sought to prove was sane
if Remus is found to be sane now, he
will be freed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
BOY SCOUTS OF MEXICO ADOPT
COL. LINDBERGH AS THEIR IDEAL

and her son will go forth in g
plane to meet her, and guide ner
safely to Valbuena field, and
thence escort her to the American
embassy, where She Will be the
guest of Ambassador and Mrs.
Dwight w. Morrow.
Another evidence that Americas
air hero has got close TO the
hearts of Mexicans is that every
where about the streets, at the
Christmas stands surrounding the
plazas, tiny models of LindDergh's
plane, 'The Spirit of st. Louis"
and of the birdnan himself,
fashioned out of wood, clay, straw
and various metals. are on dis
play and in great demand.
When Lindbergh joined the
order of Mexican Boy Scouts to-
day, he was greeted by the chief
of that organization, Jose Y
Escobar, eight typical boys Of the
Continued on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
MRS. LNDBERGH
REACHES BORDER
in FLIGHT 70 SON
Three Quarters of Journey
to Mexico City Com
pleted Yesterday.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Dec. 81 (H9
Mrs. Evaugeline L. Ldndbergh ar
rived here by air at 5:O2 o'clock this
afternoon to cross the international
border tomorrow in her flight to
Mexico City to spend Christmas with
her famous son, Colonel Charles A,
Lindbergh.
The big tri-motored n1onoplane
carrying Mrs. Lindbergh as, a pas
senger covered approximately 715
miles after taking off from Tulsa,
Okla, this morning. 1t was the
third day in the air for the mother
of the Lone Eagle" since she left
Detroit.
In entering the land which is fete-
ing her son for his nonstop flight
from washington to the Mexican
capital and MS conquest OF the
Atlantic ocean, Mrs Lindbergh will
T fly down the gulf coast to TampIco
i the route taken by Colonel Lindbergh
From Tampico the Mexican capital
| is a flight OF several hours inland.
! With her arrival at this border
town, Mrs Llndbergh had completed
approximately three fourths OF her
| journey.
| Two stops were made today on tf15
flight from Tulsa, where the plane
| took Off at 7:45 a. m. Forty SIX
minutes were spent at Dallas aT1c
about an hour at San Antonio. Fue!
was taken aboard at each stop.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 21 N9 -
The life of the children Of DIR.
Herbert l.. Mantz, whose stolen
motor car was used by William
Edward Hickman, alleged slayer of
Marian Parker in Los Angeles, has
been threatened by man, pur-
porting by inference to be the Los
Angeles slayer, it was revealed by
police tonight.
The threat was made to DR..
Mantz about p. m., yesterday in
an untraced long distance call,
which was heard by detectives who,
by chance, were in DIR. Mantz' Of
flee. DIR. and Mrs. MantZ tonight
were in fear for their lives and the
lives of their three children,
five year old son and twin daugh-
ters, 16 months old.
DIR. Mantz was called to the tele-
phone yesterday by his office girl,
who said it was q long distance
call.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
10Th CONGRESS
.ADJOURNS FOR
XMAS HOLIDAYS
Records of Accomplishment
for First Is Days,
Most Notable.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 (P)-Un.
der the shadow of the death of
one |, of its most beloved members
Senator Andieus A. Joneh of New
Mexico-the Seventieth congress ad-
journed today for it's Chistnas re-
cess.
Final meetings. Of the two houses
until January were brief, practi-
Ecally all business being suspended
as mark of respect to a member
whose period of service covered more
than a decade. The senate was in
session less than 10 minutes and the
house for only little more than half
an hour
AS they departed from Capitol
hill for a vacation of two weeks,
senators and representatives left be-
hind them record of accomplish
ment over the Is days since con-
vening that had few counterparts in
recent years.
The first of the annual appropria-
tion bills that to make up defici-
encies, was on its way to the White
House; the $29O,OOO,00O tax reduc-
ton bill had rounded the first body
of the legislative course as had the
measure proposing settlement of the
German American alien property
claims to Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh had become law.
In addition the Walsh bill de-
sined to compel testimony of re-
calcitrant witnesses in the naval
oil criminal conspiracy cases was in
President Coolidges's hands and both
houses had set forth upon what pro-
misses to be a long series of in
vestigations in this re-presidential
campaign session.
Even before the legislative wheels
of either house had been started, both
had received demands for a number
| of inquiries, several of which are
we'll under way.
A special senate committee, plung-
ing Immediately into charges in the
Hearst newspapers that a fund OF
81 1215,O0O was created for four Uni
ted States senators, satisfied itself
that no senator received any money
and pushed its inquiry to determine
the authenticity of the documents
which Hearst purchased for publica-
tions.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
POLICE WARN
.lEND MAY
Be DISGUISED
Accused ''FOx" May Even
Have Bleached His Wavy
Brown Hair.
LEAVESAPPAREL
Chemist Provides New Evi-
dence, Fixing Crime on
Hickman.

Z LOS ANGELES. Dec. Il tCP-Pos-
sibility that William Edward Hick-
man, accused slayer OF IL year old
Marian Parker, might have used an
extensive disguise to escape his
thousands OF pursuers and new evil
dence that the known lair OF Eick-
man might have been the scene of
the death OF the small kidnapping
victim added new sensational angles
to the man hunt tonight
The accused 'fox" might even have
bleached his dark wavy hair in effect
ing a disguise, the police tonight be-.
lieved, after it had been determined
that he had stolen a quantity of hair
bleach from drug store he is
accused OF holding up two weeks
prior to the kidnapping
In addition to this information the
police also determined today that
Their quarry had gone to other
lengths to disguise himself. He had
left his tell-tale overcoat with a
garage man in payment for five gall.
Ions of gasoline He left his blue
suit in the apartment where he IS
known to have lived at the time the
Parker child was kidnapped and
killed.
Police believe he might even have
disguised himself as woman to
elude his pursuers. For the former
Sunday school youth, friends told
officers, had donned women's cloth
ing on occasion and had frequently
boasted of his ability to impersonate
the other sex.
The new evidence tending to pin
the actual murder scene on the
apartment which Hickman occupied
under the name of Donald Evans,
was given by Police Chemist Rex
Welsh. The chemist announced that
spots in the apartment positively were
blood and that the spots were fresh
probably made last Saturday. It
was Saturday night that the Kidnap-
per delivered the dismembered body
to Marian's father Perry M. Parker,
and received $1,000 in return.
The chemist based his opinion that
the blood spots were fresh on a
careful microscopic analysis.
Moreover, Welsh and Police Com
missioner Thorpe discovered that
pieces OF newspapers found in the
apartment were the missing parts OF
those found wrapped about the little
girls torso at the time it was left
in gutter by the slayer.
County Chemist Abernathy today
began analysis of the candy found
in the apartment. This was on the
theory that the killer may have given
Marian poison or sleeping potion
concealed in the chocolates Chemical
examination of parts Of the girls
body was also under way today in
the effort to find whether or not
she had been poisoned or drugged
by her captor.
Detectives yesterday took complete,
lengthy statements from all employees
and the management of the apart
ment house, in an effort to find
further leads wherewith to direct
their hunt for the accused "foX."
Previously the police had found
two witnesses who said they had seen
CONTINUED on Page Eight)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
OWNER OF CAR STOLEN BY FOX"
BY LONG DISTANCE

DO you recognize my vOice?"
the man asked DIR. Ma1ltz, who said
he did not.
I'm the fellow who took you
fer a ride. Do you recognize my
voice nOw?"
DIR. Mantz signaled the detec-
tives, one of whom took up the re-
ceiver of an extension telephone,
while another raced to another
telephone in an endeavOr to trace
the call.
81 wouldn't be in all this trouble
if it were not for yOu," the man
told DIR. MantZ.
"Pm going to get one of your
girls. You know what will hap
pen to her."
DIR. Mantz engaged the man in
conversation for few minutes,
trying to hold him on the line
while the call was traced. The
telephone company was unable to
trace the cali, however.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 2l R--
Mexican Boy Scouts adopting
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh as
their ideal of youth and manhood,
have conferred upon him their
three highest decorations-knight
or the order of the lion, knight
of the order of the eagle and
knight of the order of the Tiger.
The . little ceremony at the
American embassy. in which these
lOnors were bestowed, greatly
pleased Lindbergh, to whom the
development of aviation and the
Improvement of young manhood
are very dear objects. /
With all the many things that
he has to keep in mind, the
uppermOst thought with Colonel
Lindbergh is in the air journey
which his mother is making 60
suend Christmas with him. MRS.
Lindbergh will probably reach
Mexico City tomorrow afternoon,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
Yuma Seems Strategic
Point For Capture Of
Parker Murder Suspect

x YUMA, Dec. 81 1P}-Yuma ap-
* peared tonight to have become a
* Strategic point in the widespread
y search for William E. Hickman,
y sought in the Parker murder in
* Los Angeles.
+ The guard at the bridge over
y the Colorado river here was in
* creased tonight and speedy po-
X lice car was kept standing with
y the motor running at the Arizona
y end in readiness for pursuit OF
x any automobile that failed to
y halt at the agricultural depart
y ment inspection station.
* Every automobile crossing the
* state line is halted and its oc-
y cupants subjected to close scrut-
y ing. Meanwhile, on the Baja,
y Calf, side of the international
y boundary, from San Diego to An
F drade, Calf, 8 miles from here
y heavily armed patrol of special
= Mexican officers continue on
&. watch.
*
X. y y * * II y # y 4 4 y y + y
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
Air Pumped to Men Imprisoned In Submarine
Los Angeles Police
Will Use Airplane In
Hunt For Hickman

+ LOS ANGELES, Dec. 81 Up
y The search for William E. Hick-
+ man, sought for the kidnapping
+ and brutal killing of little Mar
+ ian Parker, was spread this
y afternoon to Arizona. George
y Contreras, chief of the district
+ attorneys detective staff and Po-
y lice Detective Lieutenant Nc
Y Carron, were given unrevealed Or
Y ders to prepare to leave late to-
\ day vic airplane for Yuma and
Y: Nogales, Arizona. The nature of
= their secret mission, except that
\. it was connected with the Parker
Y murder, was withheld.
+
y * - r. y 4: T - y - s. 81 a. e
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22

PROVIDENCETOWN, Mass, Dec. q
R-While hope was admittedly slight
that a spark of life still fingered in
the men ilnmured in the dark and
airless hull since last Saturday after
noon, naval officers directing rescue
work strove to determine the condi-
tions of the victims and save them if
possible.
AS diver after diver went down in
the work of attaching an airline to
the torpedo room, Rear Admiral Frank
NJ Brumby, directing the operations
said:
= eve are going as hard and as fast
as we can. Things have not progress
ed to such an extent that we car
make any determination as to results
however"
The plan of rescue work as outlined
by Commander Edward EllSberg, ir
charge Of diving work, offered alterna-
tive courses.
First, the divers will attach an all
line to the sc tube, or listening tube
of the submarine If the men inside
had adjusted their listening device, All
will be blown in through this line il
an effort to revive the unconscious
victims If the valve inside is closed
however, the air cannot be sent in.
The method then will be to drill {
hole in the torpedo room hatch with {
compressed air drill, and then attach
the airline. In either event, shoulC
the six men or any of them revive, no
soup will be poured through the ali
hose.
After day wasted so far as rescue
work was concerned, by the fact tina
recent gales had broken a buoy lint
and caused the submarine to be "lost,
actual work began after o'clock, wher
Diver d. M Bird went down to thu
submarine after it had been located by
graphing.
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
HANGS SELF IN JAIL

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 81 P)-Three
hours after he was arrested on suspi-
cion of robbery when he was caught
fleeing from a mems furnishing store,
Ralph Mccoy, co. tied slip knot Ill
his silk scarf and hung himself from
a beam in his cell in the city jail
here tonight in full view OF more
than 40 prisoners in the "tank'
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
GALES SON I'LL

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 81 (P)-Alfred
Elias Gales, son of the president of
Mexico, was taken i'll while visiting A.
L. Ortego, secretary to the Mexican
consul here today.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22
KNOW NOT #
SUB VICTIMS
DEAD Or ALIVE
Hope Is Admittedly Slight
That Life Still Lingers
in Tomb.
WORKCONTINUJES
If Imprisoned Men Are Re-
vived, Food VIII Be Given
to Them.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 F9 -
Rear Admiral Brumby, in charge
of rescue work at the S-4 disaster,
advised the navy department that
air was being pumped into the
torpedo room of the submarine, in
which six men were imprisoned.
The admiraI's message said Div
ers Wilson and Eiben had made an
air hose connection with the lis
tening device valve leading to the
torpedo room and that in his opin-
ion "there is no reasonable doubt
that air began going into the tor
pedO room about 10 o'clock"
AS soon as the connection was
made the pressure in the torpedo
room was pumped up to four
pounds and then vented, or slack
ened down, the message said, add
ing that the artificial breathing,
pouring in fresh air and withdraw
ing the Carbon dioxide thrown off
from the lungs of the imprisoned
men, would be continued.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22

Copper steady; electrolytic,
spot and futures, 14-14.12c;
lead steady; spot, 6.5Oc.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-22

Thursday unsettled, prob
ably showers west and
south, occasional SHOWS
east portion.
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TODAY's ADJUSTMENTS.

Nati0nal-"Sweet Lady" musical
comedy, at 500 pm.
BelascO-"Potash and perlruutter,
Detectives" comedy, at $50 pm
Poiis-"What Price Glory?" photo
play, at 2:15 and SIG pm.
keith's-Bert Lytell, vaudeville. at
2:l5 and Sis pm.
Earie---Jean Acker, Corporal Kate. D"
vaudeville, continuous 30 to II pm.
Strand-"Happy Moments." musical
presentations. continuous 1890 to IL
pm.
Gayety-"Let's Co." buresque, at
2;15 and s;l5 pm.
Palace-"Little Journey" Melody
Master at II am, 1920, 2:25, 4:30,
$50, 1853 and 10 pm,
MISUNDERSTANDING Lady in Err
mine," at 11:45 am, 1:45, 3:45, 5.45,
1:45 and $50 pm.
RialtO-"The Canadian" at 1870
am, 1:20. $3.50. $40, 1870 and $40 pm.
Columbia second week)-"The Scar
let Letter" at 11:15 am, 1:15, s:15,
$50 7:30 and $50 pm.
TivOii-"The Son of the Sheik," at
2:40. 4:25. $40. g.
Acknowledgements" at 6:35,
SIS and 10 pm
%Millionaires. at 1890, ,,
$50, 5, $50, and $40 pm
Wardman Parl<--'Rupert of Hent-
Zau," at z and pm.
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Motion Withdrawn.

An American firms speeding of Attn.
ems new water supply system averted
a serious shortage that was threatened
there recently.