KIDNAPPED & MURDERED

Evening Star, Issue 19743, 19 December 1927, Page 8

KIDNAPPED & MURDERED

SHOCKING LOS ANGELES TRAGEDY GIRL'S BODY RETURNED TO FATHER Press Association-By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 18. (Received December 19, at 1 p.m.) Marion Parker, the twelvc-ycar-old daughter of Mr PaiJ Parker, a wealthy Los Angeles banker, was kidnapped, and her murdered and mutilated body was returned to her parents upon payment of ransom. On Thursday a welldressed young man appeared at the school at which Che Parker children attended for Marion to accompany him to the office of her father, who was taken suddenly ill and wanted her. The teachers consented, and within an hour the parents received a demand for ransom. The entire detective force set to work on the case, the distracted father being repeatedly warned over the telephone that any attempt to betray the kidnappers to the police when the ransom was paid would mean tho girl’s death. They demanded seventy-two 20dol notes as ransom, otherwise the daughter would he killed. The Lather also received several notes, including two. from his daughter, pleading with her father to accept the terms, us sire was undergoing torture. Eventually tho chief detectives advised acceptance of tho offer. A telephone message then instructed Mr Parker to drive to a certain place for his daughter, who was seated in a car beside a man, to whom ho handed 1,500 dollars. The man drove a short distance and lifted tho apparently sleeping girl from the car to the ground and sped rapidly away. Tho father ran to the place and found tho girl dead and shockingly mutilated.—Sydney ‘Sim’ Cable.