PARKER TRAGEDY
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 28
Hickman’s confession states when he kidnapped Marion Parker he had no intention of killing her, but remembered she knew him and must put her out of the way. fie strangled her with a piano wire and cut her hotly to pieces in a hath tub in bis apartment. He then realised that he must produce the body in order to collect the ransom. He devised a scheme of sewing the eyes open and arranging them so as to appear it still lived. The confession added other terrible details.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1927, Page 3
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98PARKER TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1927, Page 3
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