HICKMAN TO DIE

Evening Star, Issue 19791, 15 February 1928, Page 5

HICKMAN TO DIE

RECEIVES SENTENCE WITH LITTLE EMOTION

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

NEW YORK. February 14. (Received February 15, at 10.20 a.m.)

Hickman was sentenced to be executed on April 27. Ho paled, but otherwise showed no emotion at the sentence

[A message received on December 19 stated that "Marion Parker, the twelvc-year-old daughter of .Mr Paul Parker, a wealthy Los Angeles banker, was kidnapped, and her murdered and mutilated body was returned to her parents upon payment of ransom. A welldressed young man appeared at the school at which the Parker children attended for Marion to accompany him to the office of her father, who was taken suddenly ill and wanted her. The teachers consented, and within an hour the parents received a demand for ransom. The entire detective force set to work on the case, the distracted father being repeatedly warned over the telephone that any attempt to betray the kidnapper to the police when the ransom was paid would mean the girl’s death. They demanded reventytwo 2Udol notes as ransom, otherwise the daughter would be killed. The father also received several notes, including two from bis daughter, pleading with her father to accept the terms, as she was undergoing torture, [eventually the chief detectives advised acceptance of the offer. A telephone message then instructed Mr Parker to drive to a certain place for his daughter, who was seated in a car beside a man, to whom he handed 1,500d01. The man drove a short distance and lifted the apparently sleeping girl from the car to the ground, and sped rapidly away. The father ran to the placeami found the girl dead and shockingly mutilated.]