ANOTHER MURDER.
CONFESSED BY HICKMAN
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD ACCOMPLICE
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Received 10.15 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Dee. 29. A Los Angelas message says that Hickman has confessed that he killed Ivy Toms, a chemist, during a robbery of* Toms’s shop on Christmas Eve, 1926. He named Willoughby Hunt, aged 16, as an accomplice. Hunt was arrested and confessed to complicity. Toms’s widow identified both.
DETERMINED TO PLEAD GUILTY
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. A Los Angeles message states that Hickman is determined to plead guilty to the murder Indictment, despite any advice his mother’s lawyer may give and the surgeon’s report- that the girl died from exhaustion and fright, .and not from strangulation, which might give him a central point to arrange a strong legal defence.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 December 1927, Page 5
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