The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-21
MAN SOUGHT rs :.
IDENTIFIED AS
STORE ROBBER

IDENTIFIED AS
STORE ROBBEF
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day to buy machine. He failed {.
keep that appointment.
Lair Definitely Located
Although 5000 police who hat
been set on the trail werN unable q
run to earth the man whom the,
accused of being 1.-THE fox" in tn
atr0cious murder case, they def.
nitely located his lair which he had
occupied during the days that little
Marian was kidnapped and until Sun.
day, sey(ral hours after the child's
dismcmbered body had been ex.
changed for her fathers $500. :
While the maze Of false reports
that Hickman had been seen herr
and there in various parts Of the
metropolitan area forces them ia
work on the assumption that he still
was within the great guarded zone,
the last definite clue as to lis
whereabouts disappeared yesterday,
This clue was picked up by q ga.
rage cmrloyc who said man an.
swering Hickmsn's description had
driven away from the place without
paying for gasoline he had bought.
The garage man gave chase in an
automobile and, as the two cars
were seen lodging through the
streets, the cry went up that the
quarry was within the laws reach.
What was thought to be hot lead
in the search for the kidnaper.
killer suspect and resulted IN q
posse being organized in Redlands,
Calf, turned out to be a youthful
escape from detention home in
San Bernardino, near there. For q
while it was thought the man who
his car here and fled was
Hicknaen.
Another Angle Collapses
Another angle Of the police case
collapsed last night when Milton
Jakowsky, Is years old, q friend Of
was released.
Jakowsky, said to be a native of
Kansas, was arrested when a neigh
Dor Of Perry Parker, father Of the
slain girl, informed the police that
Jakowsky had spent much time
daily since the kidnapping watching
the Parker home. Yesterday he
attempted to break Jail. The police
finally concluded his interest in the
Parker home was only the result Of
morbid curiosity.
The police have determined that,
between, the time of the kidnapping
and the killing, Hickman occupied
an apartment under the name Of
Donald Evans. Led by an identifi-
cation mark found on a towel left
with the body of the slain child, a
hundred police officers descended
upon the apartment house Sunday.
According to the landlady, Mrs.
Ethel Broderick, Hickman strolled
by her in q hallway after the police
had searched his room, dropped a
casual remark and left the building.
He did not return. But the officer,
having identified Hickman as the
hunted "fox," returned to the apart
ment yesterday.
Hickman's Tie Found
There they found the necktie
Hickman had worn while his pio-
ture was taken for police identifi-
cation last summer at the time Of
his arrest on forgery charges.
On this second search, the Off
GERS found stains which they ordered
analysed to determined whether
they might have been caused by the
Staying Of little Marian in that
apartment. They also found q shirt
bearing the initials H. B. G. The
name H. B. Gerber had been found
linked on the neck band of q piece
of a shirt used to tie the bundle
TIA. was a part of the slain school
girls body.
Whether Hickman actually was in
his room at the time it was first
raided is q matter Of dispute.
The police denied he was in the
apartment.
Same Thread Used
Articles found in the apartment
had come from Kansas City, the
former home Of Hickman. A crudely
made pair of mittens was discov-
cred. They were made Of black oil
cloth and the thread with which
they had been stitched was said by
officers to be the same AZ that
with which little Marian's eyelids
had been pierced.
Although the police said they had
found no absolute evidence that the
child ever was taken to the apart
ment, two witnesses had been dis
covered who identified Hickman
from photographs as man seen
carrying bundles and suitca1o
frcle the building to an automobile.
This was Saturday night when
the kidnaper delivered Marian's
body to her father. The next day
the missing parts Of the slain child s
dismembered body were found IN
bundles along the roadway into .
Los Angeles park.
Facts showing more Of the dual
character presented by the police in
vestigations were gathered from the
boys Sunday school teacher and the
woman at whose boarding house he
lived for some time.
1.-THE Hickman boy seemed q
gentleman" said Perry Peek, his
Sunday school teacher. HE had
occasional fits Of melancholy,
though"
HE was such a. neat, quiet, or
derlv bow" declared Mrs. M. e.
Drisken, the manager Of the board
ing house in Alhambra. . suburb,
where Hickman lived for four
months.
"He went to church and Sunday
school. He never stayed out late It
night. He was always carefully
groomed, extremely polite, used
good grammar and otherwise was q
model boy"
PEOPLE SAW HICKMAN
CARRY 1IYT RrYNnYH0