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The dispositions of 81 others re.
!. manned to be read to the jury when
the trial resumed today.
s Here is the jury which must pass
on the sanity of Hickman at the
time he lured Marian Parker from
her school and put her to death:
Elias Kahn, Los Angeles, retired.
Mrs. Elizabeth Al. Bulls, Alham-
bra, housewife.
Mrs Emily. Lindrum, Los Angeles,
housewife.
Mrs. Virginia Z. Roess, Sierra
Nadre, housewife.
Robert Z. Bowman, Los Angeles.
occupation not given.
Arlo e. Rickett, Pomona, dry
goods merchant.
Edwin venables, Hermosa Beach.
retired.
=. a. Ruggles. Los Angeles, re-
tired United States Army colonel.
Howard a. Sleeves, Whittier, far
nler.
Howard Atkinson, Long Beach. no
occupation given.
Henry II. Wood. Puente, citrus
grower
mrs. Sarah A. Roach. Los An
geles, housewife.
with the burden of proof Of In
! sanity upon the defense, the prose
cution rested its case yesterday soon
i after the jury was officially declared
complete. Reading Of dispositions,
reviewing the early childhood OF the
youthful defendant, then began.
Scenes Not Pleasant
The scenes were not pleasant
ones. Over them all lay the shadow
Of mental irregularity and domestic
J. l1nhappiness.
These residents OF Sebastian
county spoke through the lips OK
Attorney Walsh and District Attor-
. ney Asa Keyes. From the witness
chair. Walsh read the dispositions,
while the State questions and an
gwers were read by the district at
torney. seated at the prosecution
table
These documents impeached the
sanity of Hickman's mother. grand
mother and a first cousin. They
reflected upon the conduct of Hick-'
mans father. who. It was said, left
his family some nine years ago
after running around with other
women"
They touched the defendant only
Incidentally. In those early days in
Sebastian county, in the region of
s Hartford. West Hartford and Log
/. Hollow Settlement" the confessed
kidnaper and killer of little Marian
Parker had not reached his teens.
FOX" Unmoved
. Apparently unmoved, save for a
niight twitchings of the facial mus
cles, young Hickman saw his family
life painted in drab colors. height;
ened only by lurid flashes Of mental
alterations.
Both his parents, and his brother,
Alfred Hickman, are in the city for
the trial. But none OF them was
noticed in the courtroom.
What seemed to linger most
strongly In the memory of those
Sebastian county residents who
knew the Hickmans a decade and
more ago was the picture Of a
mother and her brood of five chill
dren whom she kept by her wherever
she went One of that brood was
William Edward Hickman.
When she went to the grocery,
when she went to work in the
fields, she always had the children
dragging along, several Of the
Arkansas witnesses deposed.
Danced At Work
Mrs. Artte Smith, now of Cam.
eron, Okla, recalled that one day
the mother-Mrs. Eva Hickman
danced through the house, danced
while she was trying to make the
beds, patting the pillows.
we called it jigging," Mrs.
Smith said.
Mrs. Smith, sister.in.law of Mrs.
Hickman, also declared:
"One night her husband saw her
in bed. She had q butcher knife
in her hand"
Mrs. Hickman, various witnesses
said, once had taken carbotc acid.
DIR. w. j. Hunt, now Of Oklahoma,
said Mrs. Hickman had been in an
institution at Little Rock for sev-
eraF months.
do you think she knew the
difference between right and
wrongY" he was asked--a favorite
question Of the State cross-examina-
ton.
A couple Of times thought she
didn't" he responded.
SubnOrmaI Mentality
DR.. William H. Griggsby described
Mrs. Hickman's mentality as
slightly subnormal." He said she
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