LOS ANGELES MURDERS.
HICKMAN PLEADS GUILTY. PLEA OF INSANITY RAISED. (Received January 6, 7.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5. The youth Hickman, who is charged with the murder of the schoolgirl, Marion Parker, and who confessed to having committed another murder, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the indictment charging him with complicity in the murder of Ivy Thorns, a Los Angeles druggist. The plea is an admission of his guilt, and makes the state of his mind the sole issue.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19838, 7 January 1928, Page 9
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87LOS ANGELES MURDERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19838, 7 January 1928, Page 9
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