THE PARKER MURDER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 December 1927, Page 5

THE PARKER MURDER.

COMMITTED IN MOTOR. SUSPECT’S NAME KEPT SECRET. Press Association-Electrio Telegraph-Copyright. NEW YORK, Tuesday, Los Angeles messages state that an automobile stolen from a physician in Kansas City two months ago was •brought to Los Angeles and equipped with stolen California licenses. It has been established that the murder of (lie girl Parker was committed in the car, which was seized in a garage. Public subscriptions bring the total reward for the apprehension of the murderer to £15,000. The police refuse to name the arrested suspect. He tits the description of a man who talked with the murdered girl’s teachers and admits a casual acquaintance with the Parker family. He lias studied Greek, as the notewriting abductor must have-done, for he used Greek’ characters to spell out the word “death,” which headed the letters. SEARCH FOR THE SLAYER. (Received Wednesditv, 12.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, Tuesday. Reports from Los Angeles state that the police of America, by means of photographs and identification by fin-ger-prints, are searching for William Hickman, aged IS, .as the slayer of Marian Parker, as an act of revenge against her father. Hji«kman was recently discharged from the Los Angeles First National Bank for the alleged forgery of cheques. He pleaded guilty at the Juvenile Court and was released from custody. The father of Parker is assistant cashier at the bank, and was the only witness who urged a term of imprisonment for Hickman. It is stated that Hickman swore vengeance on Parker. —“Sun.”