Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-10

feet and threw into the gutter the
head and torso OF Marian Her
arms had been amputated at the
elbows and her less at the waist
Her eyes were held open by
istitehes of fine thread. The father
COLLAPSED as he gathered what was
/ left of his child into his arms.
| Great posses of citizens, Boy
Scouts and others, Joined police in
the search for the kidnaper and
killer, and the following morning,
Sunday, Dec. 49, the missing fore
arms and legs were found Wrapped
/ in several newspaper packages in
4 Elysian park.
! Before night, reward pledges Of
fered for the killers capture, dead
or alive, aggregated more than
$4,000
That morning bloodstained
towel used to wrap up the remains
had led police to tho Bellevue Arms
| apartments. They searched the
place even the room occupied by
Hickman, who spoke to them, but
at that time the officers had not
| identified him as the kidnaper-kil-
Ter, and when the police left he
slipped out OF the apartment house
and disappeared.
That same evening, it later de-
veloped, Hickman held up +. II.
Peck in Hollywood, took his green
sedan and fled north. The theft
was not broadcast by police and it
was not until three days later,
when the Associated Press connect
cd xxfith Iio1y hot in,
formation was flashed out resultiug
in his capture in Oregon.
| Monday night, Dec. 10, police
| lfingerprint experts identified ,Hick
man as the man wanted by COM
pairing prints on the wheel of the
automobile he had driven and aban-
doned after the kidnapping with his
records in a forgery charge in
June, 1927. Next day they discov-
cred that he lived at the Bellevue
Arms under the name of Donald
Evans, and had engaged in series
of drug store holdups.
Dec. 20 was a blank in the
search. Then, up in Seattle, a man
identified as Hickman, spent one OF
the $40 bills paid him by Parker
whose numbers had been sent
broadcast throughout the country.
The clothier who changed the treas
ury note notified the police and the
chase centered in the northwest.
The morning of Dec. % the green
sedan warning was flashed along
the Associated Press wires, Parker
Branin, of the East Oregonian Of
Pendleton, Ore, saw it's Importance
and turned it over to Chief Cur
dane and Officer Lieuellan. They
drove down the columbia highway
looking for the car and got it
and, with Hickman.
Held in the Pendleton jail, Hick- |
man at first confessed that he had
been implicated in the Marian
Parker kidnapping, but that man
named Andrew Kramer had done
the killing. Later, en- route to- Los
Angeles in charge of Los Angeles
officers, he repudiated that state
ment and to Chief of Detectives
Herman H. Cline of the Los An !
geles force, he admitted he alone
had kidnapped Marian, killed her
and dismembered her body in the
Bellevue Arms apartment.
He kidnapped her, he said, % Ob-
tain the ransom money to complete
his education, killed her when he
became afraid her presence alive
in his apal tment would betray him
To the police, and dismember9d lbc
body SO that he could carry it from
the apartment without exciting sus-
picion
Following his indictment for ki6,
lsapiug and mul DER in Los Angeles.
;iickmaa. :@icnded by jerome
Walsh. Jr., of l.; nsos CITY, i."ads
4" i charges. Not guilty ny +. q
s7E OF in.',.:.:ty.
He was put on trial Jan. 25 to
determine his mental state, while
legal authorities wrangled over the
exact Interpretation of the new Cal
ifornia law affecting his case. Some
argued he could be Immediately
sentenced to death if proven sane;
others maintained proof of his san I
ity must be followed by a trial Tor
murder
The jury was completed and the
first testimony was started Jan. 80, |
with Judge j. j. Trabucco, of Mar
icopa county, sitting in the case,
following the disqualification of
Judge Carlos S. Hardy, of Los An
geles, before whom, Walsh contend |
ed, Hickman could not have a fair |
trial.
The defense, presented before the
states case in the sanity trial, |
closed it's case Feb. 8. 1t had en- !
deavored, by depositions OF Hick- !
mans Kansas City acquaintances, /
by evidence of his father, William
Thomas Hickman, and OF his moth,
er, Mrs. Eva Hickman, and by the !
testimony of alienists to show that !
he was insane.
The prosecution opened with its
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