Bank Clerk Sought For Murder of Girl

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 233, 21 December 1927, Page 1

Bank Clerk Sought For Murder of Girl

REV- GE AGAINST FATHER?

By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Received 11.16 a.m. . NEW YORK Tuesdav DEPORTS from Los Angeles state that, with his identifieaH tion by photograph and finger-prints as the slayer of Marian Parker, for revenge against her father, the nolice of America are seeking William Edward Hickman who in his 18tU year, was recently discharged from the Los Angeles First National Bank, for the alleged forgery of cheques He pleaded guilty m the Juvenile Court and was released to the custody of his mother. Parker, at that time the assistant cashier of the bank, was the only /witness who urg»d a term of gaol. e B

Sun Stated that Hiekman vengeance on Parker.

POLICE POSITIVE

IDENTIFICATION CERTAIN angry crowds in city Kscd. 12.15 p.m. LOS ANGELES, Tues. The whole population of the city I* »o aroused at the murder that the police are having the greatest difficulty in keeping the mobtfrom taking justice into their own hands, whenever a suspect is arrested, which occurs several times daily. The police declare that the murderer haa positively been identified as a jronng man of 17, now in Los Angeles, tat whose home is in Kansas City. They assert that the motive was reunite, because the latter was recently conYicted of forgery while employed m a bank of which Parker is an execute, and was paroled over Parker’s strenuous protests. The police state that the fingerprints on the abandoned motorear and elsewhere tally with the youth’s prints In the Rogue’s Gallary. Also five persons have Identified his photographs, including the teacher who let the kidnapper take the child from school. One young man who was arrested

strongly resembled the suspect, but he completely proved innocence, though not before he was almost taken by the mob, which the police forced back with the greatest difliculty.—A. and N.Z. •