THE PARKER MURDER.
A PLEA OF CUILTY. HICKMAN’S DETERMINATION. i’ress Association-Electric Telegraph-Copy rig Lit LOS AX G ELKS, Thursday.Hickman has determined to plead guilty to the murder indictment, despite the advice his mother’s lawyer may give, and the importance of the surgeon’s report that the girl died of exhaustion and fright, and not strangulation, whtidi might give him a central point' to arrange a strong legal defence. ANOTHER CRIME CONFESSED. (Received Friday, 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Thursday. A Los Angeles message says that Hickman has confessed that he killed Ivy Toms,, a chemist, during the robbery of Toms’ shop on Christmas Eve, 1926. He named Willoughby Hunt (aged 16) as his accomplice. Hunt was later arrested and has confessed complicity. Toms’ widow identified both Hickman. and Hunt.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 December 1927, Page 5
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