The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-01
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1 DALLAS, Tex. IN Hundreds Of
Dallas residents, angered by a Sc.
lries Of attacks on white women BY
q nude Negro rrcHler, formed q
vengeful posse today and searched
for the killer Of 4 young mother.
The staying last night Of Mrs,
H. c. Parker, 29-year-old dime
store clerk, climaxed a series Of
Leatings and rapes upon white
women by a prowler who had ter.
rified Dallas women for months
Police said the pretty woman was
literally "cut 70 pieces"
Reinforced, beefed-up police pa.
trolls thrown into the crowded bust.
ness and residential area near
Reverchon Park and Lennon ave.
nue. In north Dallas searched In
vain for the terrorist. Police Chief
Carl Hanson warned angry citi-
zens to be careful OF their aim. He
said he feared innocent persons
would be injured and killed.
Women slept with lights on and
rifles by their beds. Husbands dug
old six-shooters and Army weap-
Ions out Of trunks and closets. Bird
guns were loaded with buckshot.
Harried police were receiving
dozens Of calls each night even
before Mrs. Parker was killed.
Chief Hanson had put dozens of
extra police on duty hunting the
|prowler who has terrified women
In several parts Of the city.
Mrs. Parker was the wife of q
|tubercular patient who has been
hospitalized for three years. They
have Q 4-year-old son.
Mrs. Parker gave scant details
of the attack before she died en-
route to q hospital.
She had finished work at 3 p. m.
at q dime store In the Walnut Hills
shopping center not far from the
Dallas municipal airport. While
she was waiting for her bus, she
told police, q Negro grabbed her
and forced her under a bridge.
There he attacked and repeatedly
slashed her. She dragged herself
up the embankment to the street,
where she collapsed A passing
motorist found her, took her to the
airport and called police.
Officers w. M. MCGEE and J. W.
Gallagher said Mrs. Parker de-
scribed her assailant as a stocky
Negro dressed in a white T-shirt
and khaki trousers. Hospital at
tendants confirmed that she was
raped.
Early Tuesday morning. $16
squads Of patrolmen and detectives
had tramped through Reverchon
Park following an appearance of
the nude prowler, who sometimes
wears striped shorts, at other
times appears In bedrooms naked.
Mrs. r. T. Griffin, night nurse
at Bradford Memorial Hospital.
said she was in the office at the
front of the building and saw the
prowler looking in the window. Al
porch light, she said, revealed that
he was unclothed.
II screamed and the man ran. 81
she said.
Other nurses said they saw the
man at the side of the building
later.
Tuesday night, a 2O.year-old
stenographer told newsmen she
looked up from writing a letter 10
see a man looking into her window.
She ran into another room for her
stepfather and he escaped.
Dallas has had Is rapes of white
women by Negroes in IS months.
A few weeks ago the rapes In
creased to three in as many weeks. |
Several times the nude prowler has
been scared away. A week ago. a
resident Of the Reverchon Park
area drove him off with his fists
as the man attempted to enter the
front door of his home. Another
man entered his bedroom to find
his wife being raped by the
prowler. He was cut by the knife
welding attacker.