Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-09

j questions. He Identified the ransom
letters ana kilograms; the $40 bills
he paid Hickman at revolver's point
for the torso of his murdered child;
and looking intently at the youth be-
fore him, said: "He is the man VINO
took the money"
The states case had been completed
and it rested. With only arguments
and instructions left, court was adj
journed after little more than an
hours session until afternoon.
Judge Trabucco had ruled that but
three hours each would besallotted for
defense and prosecution and when
Murray rose to present the opening
argument he came quickly to the point.
Lest the jurors should digreSS from
the issue at hand, he told them that
there was but single thing for them
to decide-whether Hickman was sane
! at the time he committed the crimes
charged. Then, employing sarcasm
and vigorous oratory, he pounced on
the defense contention that the killer
was motivated by divine guidance"
IF this defendant was directed by
divine guidance" he argued, "and be-
heved he was doing a great good for
humanity as his defense claims, why
did he write Parker, the victims
father, not to tell the police?' Why
did he ask sarc 2stically, why all this
publicity?' If he believed providence
guided him. why didn't he want him
self acclaimcd?"
The prosecutor dealt long on the
visit of police to HicklnanS apartment
| following the crime and of the youths
attitude there. He asked the jurors
10 consider, the significance of Hick-
mans expressed hope that they catch
! the fiend who committed this crime" :"
''Was that the question and were those
! the words of q man who did not know
the meaning of crime; who did not
know right from Wrong?" he chal-
! lenged.
Murray called attention to the fact
! that Hickman had been wise enough"
! to use fictitious name at San
Francisco hotel on his flight north
ward; of his rush from that city when
! he saw his name in the newspapers,
and OF his picking up two boys to
ride with him SO that he would not be
seen riding "solo"-the term he used,
Murray said, in Dragging OF his lone
hand crime.
I Why did he not mention divine
guidance in his murder confession?
questioned Murray Because the Grim
inaFs trait of preservation w2s
manifesting itself
! Hickman's written plea for his life,
! entered as evidence by the defense,
was pointed out by the prosecutor as
| another evidence Of the normal in
stinct of self-preservation. He ask
ed," shouted Murray, that America
do away with the rope when the rope
! already was about his own neck
! Then quickly passing over the grea
mass of evidence introduced by the
defense intended to show that strain
Of insanity ran among Hickman's
! forcbears, Murray demanded that the
jurors bear in mind that the burden
OF proof OF his insanity defense is on
him."
Murray spoke feelingly of the
mother Mrs. Eva Hickman, as that
poor little lady who struggled all her
life to give that criminal over there
all his selfish pleasure"
! Then he dWelt on Hickman'S many
sitting in the county Jail with alien
| lists beth fer state and defense. His
sanity was proved by his refusal TO
| talk to them," Murray said, land his
claiming of his constitutional rights. "
In a laundering finale, Murray
/ shoated: ITO me this defense is a
sham; there isn't place in it that
will hold a drop of water 1t is up to
you to let the mothers of America
know that their little children can
trust America and her laws to protect
their children from such wanton Grim
/ inalS."
Walsh began his argument slowly.
1T is for mad man that l am here, "