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'Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) HICKAIAN TO PLEAD GUILTY. NEAV YORK, Dee. 28. A Los Angeles message states that Hickman is determined to plead guilty to the murder indictment, despite any advice li is mother’s lawyer may give, and tiie surgeon’s report that the girl died from exhaustion and fright, and not strangulation, which might give him a central point to arrange a strong legal defence. ANOTHER. AIURDER. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). NEAV YORK. Dec. 29. A Los Angeles message says Hickman confessed that he killed Ivy Toms, a chemist, during the robbery of Toms’ shop on Christinas Eve 192(1. He named Willoughby Hunt, aged sixteen, as an accomplice. Hunt was arrested and confessed to complicity. Turns’ widow has identified both.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1927, Page 2
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124PARKER TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1927, Page 2
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