THE PARKER MURDER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 December 1927, Page 5

THE PARKER MURDER.

GREAT MAN HUNT. SEARCH FOR SUSPECT. Press A ssociation--Electric Telegraph-Copyright (Received Friday, 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Thursday. A. message from Seattle states that the greatest man hunt in the history of the State of Washington is being carried out for the suspected murderer of Marion Parker, since a youth resembling the suspect purchased clothing here and made payment with a twenty dollar bill identified as one of those given by Parker to the kidnapper. The Seattle police force with County officers and highway patrolmen have searched hotels and rooming houses in a virtual house-to-house canvass. The live bridges which are the only exits from the city are heavily policed, and every outgoing automobile is being stopped and searched. ON THE MURDERER’S TRACK. ( Received Friday, 10.49 a.m.) NEW YORK, Thursday. It is i now learned that the suspect cashed a second twenty dollar bill of the ransom money last night at Kent, fifteen miles south of Seattle. A clerk of an hotel at Astoria, Oregon, reported that a man resembling the suspect registered there before daybreak. He appeared tired and nervous. He left the hotel at G o’clock in the morning, saying that he was going to meet a friend but failed to return.