LOS ANGELES HORROR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20288, 22 December 1927, Page 11

LOS ANGELES HORROR

SEARCH FOR A SUSPECT. DISCHARGED BANK EMPLOYEE. (Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, December 20. Reports from Los Angeles state that the police of America, by means of photograpns and identification by finger-prints, are searching for William Hickman, aged 18, a.s the slayer of Marian Parker as an act of revenge against her father. Hickman was recently discharged from Los Angeles First National Bank for alleged forgery of cheques. He pleaded guilty at the Juvenile Court and was released from custody. The father of Marian Parker is assistant cashier at the bank, and was the only witness who urged a term of gaol. It is stated that Hickman swore vengeance on Mr Parker.—Sydney Sun Cable. THE POLICE CONFIDENT. TELL-TALE FINGER-PRINTS. NEW YORK, December 20. The whole population of Los Angeles is so aroused by the murder of Marian Parker that the police are having the greatest difficulty in keeping the mobs from taking justice into their own hands whenever a suspect is arrested, which occurs several times daily. The police declare that the murderer has been positively identified n a young man now in Los Angeles, but whose home is in Kansas City. They assert that the motive was revenge, because the latter recently was convicted of forgery while employed in the bank of which Mr Parker is on the executive. He was paroled, in spite of Mr Parker’s strenuous protests. The police state that finger-prints on the abandoned motor car and elsewhere tally with the youth’s in the rogues’ gallery. Also, five persons have identified his photographs, including th e teacher who let the kidnapper take the child from school. One young man arrested strongly resembled the suspect, but completely proved his innocence, yet not before he was almost taken by a mob which the police forced back with the greatest difficulty.—A. and N.Z. Cable.