LOS ANGELES MURDER.
PLANS A FUNERAL ORATION.
WOULD RATHER BE BURNED.
Hickman is planning his owin funeral oration, for, delivery when he reaches the thirteenth step of . the San Quentin Gallows. ; “ I would rather*be burned at the intake than be hanged,” said Hick' man who is cringing before the thoughts of the noose, “ but I intend to deliyer the greatest swan song in history,” he added. /
He says he is spending his evenings studying Mark Antony’s oration over the. body of Julius Caesar. Reference to H’cknian’s fate was .made in his, speech at his 81st birth' day party by Thomas A. Edison' the inventor. ,He , said' that he thought Hickman should be imprisoned for life, and not hanged.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5244, 27 February 1928, Page 4
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118LOS ANGELES MURDER. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5244, 27 February 1928, Page 4
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