THE PARKER MURDER.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2516, 20 December 1927, Page 5

THE PARKER MURDER.

SISTER OF THE VICTIM.

RECEIVES THREATENING, LETTERS.

(Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 8.25 a.m.) New York, December 19

Marjorie Parker, the sister of the victim" of the murdered child, Marion, has been threatened with a similar fate.

At midnight last night a note left on’ a Hollywood fire box, read: “Parker, for the trouble you have caused, Marjorie Parker will be the next victim. Nothing can stop ‘The Fox.’ They who try will know the penalty. If you warn anyone of this second success, it will be on your neck. Try and get me. I am ‘The Fox.’ You will never know the real story of the first success. You will miss Majorie at 12 o’clock.—Signed ‘The Fox.’ ”

The police said the handwriting was the same as in previous messages.

On Thursday a well-dressed youngman appeared at the school the Parker children attended, asking Marion to accompany him to the office of her father, who had taken suddenly ill and wanted her. A letter was later received by the father, a wealthy Los Angeles banker, demanding £3OO as ransom. The father accepted the offer, and went to the appointed place, where a man was found in a car with the apparently sleeping girl. The man lifted the child from the car, laid it on the ground, and then fled with the money. ’The father ran to the place, and was horrified to the child dead and shockingly mutilated.