CALIFORNIAN MAN-HUNT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 11

CALIFORNIAN MAN-HUNT

POLICE ARREST MURDER SUSPECT WHOLE NATION HORRIFIED BY CRIME By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received Noon. NEW YORK, Monday. THE police have arrested a man suspected of the murder of a child, Marion Parker, whose body, dreadfully mutilated, was returned to her parents at Los Angeles upon payment of ransom. The entire population of Los Angeles has joined in the hunt for the murderer.

r pHE suspect said lie was a college | man, and the son of a prominent doctor. After a radio station had broadcast an appeal for a reward in money, the public responded immediately, and sent in so many promises that it was necessary to employ a staff of ten men to count the money offered, and six girls were employed to deal with telephone calls. A reward of £I,OOO was raised by 8 p.m. on Sunday. Other radio stations are establishing similar funds, as horror and indignation at the crime sweeps over the nation. SHOCKING DETAILS An earlier message said the greatest man hunt ever known in California had begun in the search for the murderer of the child Marion Parker, who was kidnapped on December 15. When Mr. Parker examined the apparent body of his daughter, he found only the upper portion, and the remainder was found later. The body had been carefully dissected and wrapped in five bundles, which were distributed at various points in a public park in Los Angeles. As a result of the discovery of the severed parts, thousands of detectives and police officers are carrying on the investigations in the city and the country, and the authorities have ordered them to watch for all possible traces of the criminal. The entire population of Los Angeles is aroused by the gruesomeness of the crime, and is helping to run down the murderer, who is believed to be within the city.—A. and N.Z.

Marjorie Parker Telfin, sister of the murefered girl, was threatened with a similar fate to her sister's at midnight last night in a note left on a Hollywood firebox. The note read: “Parker, for the trouble you have caused, Marjorie Parker will be the next victim. Nothing can stop the fox. They who try will know the penalty. If you warn anyone of this second success, it will mean your neck. Try and get me. I am the fox. You shall never know the real story of the first success. You will miss Marjorie at 12 o'clock. Signed, The Fox.’* The police said the handwriting was the same as that of previous messages.—Sun.