Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1927, Page 5

| WOMAN TELLS HOW SLAYER TOOK GIRL | Victim Afraid of Kidnaper at i School, Attendance 0f- ficer Reveals. By e Amociated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 19— Mrs. Mary Ward Holt, attendance offi- | cer at the Mount Junior High School, | Who was trapped by the crafty schem' ing of the kidnaper into turning 12- . yearold Marian Parker over’to him, | hos been in a state of collapse since the abduction was discovered. The death of the small schoolgirl has pros- trated the school official. napas Wt Thersdes oo s s ursday noon and ask that Marian be excused in order that She might be taken to her father, ¢ Ph:;w‘g.nrmrr“ whom the man said in an automobile accident. Child Seemed Afraid. ing_played into the hands ©f this man,” Mrs. Holt sobbingly told interviewers, “for Marian was in the room *lnh\x my office and it took ute to get her. “The looked 8o pale and as she stood there with her lunch 4n her hand that I asked her it there was anything else she wanted before she went with the man, and she just shook her head. “The man and Marian hurried down the hall together. Other teachers tell me that Marian and her sister Mar- Jorie passed in the hall, but they did nat speak to each other.” The man told Mrs. Holt he was an of the bank where Parker is assistant cashier. He gave her the name and boldly disspelled the teach- er’s final doubts when he said: “If there is any doubt in your mind, here is the bank’s telephone number; you may call there.” Patted Her Arm. The lunch which Marian held in her hand as she went with her abduc- tor was the refreshments at a Christ- l!llm.:lrly being given by her class- The man smiled at the little girl as he jed the way to the waiting lm'l:b:n. uhhe helped her r‘d’;w the car tted her arm, accos ng to ‘Then he started the car and was a in sh., ot?!uh: Riies -ty bae ooty T —_— g MURDERER OF GIRL - ELUDES THOUSANDS "IN COAST MANHUNT __{Continued from First Page.) morning definitely to point to . them as the machine in which it the torn remains to the 3 - mclmk Saturday no downward thrust in pular indignation this any nd make no " Accompanying the first of two ‘which were received from Mar- from her captor, which name, very sly, you i s hangs by a thread and I ready and able to businéss. Do you want the i EE @ gl gqd ; i _gi.g i afternoon came ; lonhg one, per spoke sharp! police had been allowed 3 insane to betray your love s to ignore my terms, tamper death,” said the letter. fou remain reckless, with death fast its way. . . . A man who be- his love for his own daughter second Judas Iscariot. Prepare for Funeral. “If by 8 p.m. today you have not my telephone call, then—hold funeral service at your ceme- :i'wfl.houl the body—on Sunday, the it Only God knows where the of Marian Parker would rest in event. Not much effort is needed take her life. She may pass out ore 8 p.m., so I would not afford to you and ask for $1,500 for a life- mass of flesh. “I am base and low, but I would not stoop to that depth.” This missive was signed “Fate— Fox,” and was followed by a summary of instructions which Parker was to follow. Briefly, he was to bring $1,500 $20 gold certificates, come alone and ied and stay in his car. Jt was hours after the girl's death z‘t her father Teceived the last note " her handwriting. Thousands Join Hunt. The greatest man hunt in the his. tory of the Pacific Southwest—search for the fiend who kidnaped, murdered and mutilated Marian—gripped Lo Angeles and all neighboring cities to. day. ‘While 4,000 trained men of the po- lice, district attorney’s and sheriff’s offices continued the hunt, there came & mocking, defiant letter, purporting to come from the kidnaper-slayer. The issive promised a fate similar to s 12.year-old sister Marjorie. Wntfe police guarded the letter, which had been posted on a fire alarm box, @nd delivered by means of a false alarm, many officers believed it the work of a crank. Nearly a half-hundred suspects had been taken into custody since Satur- day night, when Marian’s dismem- bered body was bartered to her father, Perry M. Parker, an assistant bank cashier, for $1,500—paid on the as- sumption of the parent that the girl =till was alive. Virtually all of them were released after questioning. Planes Are Used. Alrplanes were pressed into service to pursue a suspect to Las Vegas, Nev,, where they overtook an east- bound motor stage, resulting in the rrest of Lewis D. Wyatt. The arrest- ’ng officers after questioning him ex- pressed the opinion that'he was not the man wanted, but he was finger- printed and photographed. He told of- ficers he was en route to Terre Haute, Ind., his former home, and investiga- tion in Los Angeles tended to corrob- orate his story. ‘The officel placed slightly more ‘Weight on the arrest of an unnamed suspect in Los Angeles. The suspect, #aid to be & member of the family of ’ | A ,% i g EZ, Parker Girl Pleaded For Rescue in Two Notes to Her Father By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 19. —The vain efforts of little Marian Parker to make her w: out of the clutches of a kid- the pathetic letters written by her to “dear daddy and mother.” In her childish scrawl, the girl wrote two shgrt notes. “I wish I could come home,” Marian wrote in her first letter. “I think I'll die if T have to be like this much longer. Won't some one please tell me why all this had to happen to me. Daddy, please do what the man tells you or he will kill me if you ot “Your loving daughter, MARIAN PARKER. P. 8.: Please, daddy, I want to come home tonight.” The other letter read: “Dear Daddy and Mother: Please don’t bring any one with you today. I'm sorry for what happened last night. We drove wright by the house and I cry- ed all the time last night. If you don’t meet us this morning, you will never see me agai “Love to al N N PARKER.” Please daddy, I want to come home this morning. This is your Jast chance and come by your- Self or you won't see me again. “MARIAN.” student at a military school and a college in Los Angeles, had some knowledge of the Parker family ac- tivities, police intimated. Meanwhile the nerves of citizens, ho have offered reward money ag- regating more than $50,000 for the received another shock last night when Miss Ethel Swapp, 14, daughter of a chauffeur, was kidnaped at Pasa- dena. Kidnaper Is Caught. The second kidnaper failed to elude he law and he was cornered by a posse in the hills section east of Pasa- dena. Police said his description did not tally with that of the slayer of Marian Parker. The Pasadena suspect gave his name as Jesse Cobb, 23. His finger- prints were taken and hurried to Los Angeles for checking as a pre- cautionary measure. He was return- ing to Pasadena when cornered by the officers. The Swapp girl told authorities that he had attacked her. The car driven by Cobb was said by the officers to have been stolen and the police said he faced a charge of grand larceny, in addition to other possible accusa- tions. Every tick of the ‘clock, officers said, meant a lessened chance for the capture of Marian’s slayer, who is believed to have been assisted by a man and a woman. The kidnaper struck last Thursday morning while Marian and Marjorie were on their way to school. They noticed a stranger watching them from a coupe about a block from their r0me. He attempted to speak to them. Apears at School. During the noon hour, a stranger appeared at the junior high school and told Mrs. Mary Ward Holt, at- tendance officer, that Marian’s father had been hurt and was calling for her. It was a perfect piece of trick- ery and Marian was unwittingly re- leased to a fiend, who took her to a horrible death. ‘When Marian failed to return from school at the regular hour her twin sister told of the stranger, and the search was begun. Shortly afterward two telegrams—one from Pasadena and the other from Alhambra, both nearby cities—warned the father not to attempt to interfere with the kid- napers’ plans. The next morning the frantic father received a special delivery - letter which instructed him to obtain $1,500 in $20 bills and await further instruc- tions. Early in the afternoon there came a second letter—a pitiful handwritten appeal from the girl ‘herself, asking her father to do as her captor desired and to come and get her. Connection Broken. Three times that afternoon the Parker telephone rang, but as Parker answered he spoke only to an open wire. The caller broke the connection each time. The first telephone message came from the kidnaper at 8 o'clock that night. Another, 30 minutes later, in- structed the father to proceed by au- tomobile to a designated spot with the $1,600. This he did, but police in their zeal to catch the kidnaper sent detectives to surround the scene and the wily one ‘sidestepped the trap. A night and a morning of agony for the Parker family elapsed before further word came. Then early Sat- urday afternoon came another letter. It contained another appeal in the girl’s handwriting and two notes from the kidnaper voicing his anger at the father for permitting police to set the trap. They threatened death to the girl if instructions were not fol- lowed. The kidnaper’s notes showed he had an accurate check on police operations. Police Withdraw. The distracted father finally asked police to withdraw. That evening he was instructed to drive to a spot not far from his home for a final ren- dezvous.: Parker followed instructions and was met by a masked man in a small automobile. Beside the kidnaper was little Marian. The father asked for a glimpse of the girl., ‘With a terse “She’s asleep,” the kid- naper allowed Parker to peep into the car, then ordered him to hand over the $1,500. Parker surrendered the roll of $20 bills and the kidnaper in- formed him he would drive ahead and deposit Marian on a lawn a short dis- tance ahead. The father followed the mysterious car. In a moment the kidnaper cast the heavily wrapped girl from his machine and sped away. Parker hurried to the side of the object and clutched it in his arms. Marian was dead. He opened the bundle. The body of the little girl had been dismembered and horribly mutilated. The arms were cut off at the elbows. The legs were cut off at the torso, which had been disemboweled. | Parts of Body Found. The dismembered parts of the hody were found yesterday scattered along the roadway in well wrapped pack- ages. Apparently they had been tossed trom the kidnaper’s automobile as he sped away from the place where he had met Parker and later thrown the torso from his car. ‘While police kept on the alert hand- writing experts drew a picture of the kidnaper from what they saw in his bandwriting. They described him as a cool-headed desperado—a man who had done little manual labor—of sound mentality and considerably above the average In intelligence. The belief that he is an educated man was de- duced from his careless use of Greek letters in the missives. His chirog- raphy showed artistic inclinations and not the slightest nervousness. A _handwriting expert, after a lengthy examination of the letters, said they were written by two per- sons, one of them a woman, The handwriting expert's descrip tion of the character of the man who did the writing only bore out what police already knew too well. The criminal was of more than average intellect, cool nerve and of the cun- ningness which has baffled pursuing officers, The autopsy performed on the body tell by chance to a next-door neighbor of the Parker family, County Autopsy Surgeon A. F. Wagner. He went about his task with a lnauel‘ in lines o capture of little Marian's_murderer, | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, a Los Angeles physician and a former | .| % J0L00T TAKEN FROMFIVE STORES Two Homes Also Robbed Over | Week End—Man’s Pocket Is Picked. ive business places and two homes were burglarized and two other thefts were reported to police over the week the total value of the loot ap- ating $2,000. | rs were removed from t night to gain e trance to the clothing store of Harry Lester, 126 G street, who placed his loss at’ $409.25. ¢ was cor mitted between 5:30 o'clock yesterday | afternoon and this morning. Lester listed the loot as 50 caps, 1 handbag, 7 suit cases, 100 ties, 24 pairs | of trousers, 12 sweaters, 36 broadcloth shirts, 12 pairs of socks, 2 dozen pairs | of stockings, 4 dozen belts and 310 in | cash, Robbed Four Times. Lester’s store has been robbed four times during the past two years, one robbery having been perpetrated about last July when property valued at $300 was stolen. A panel was cut from a rear door to burglarize the store of M. A. Baer,| 3145 M street, between closing time | Ismminy and opening time this morn- ng. Mr. Baer told police overcoats, raing coats, slickers and an assortment of ties, mufflers, belt buckles, shirts, union suits and other wearing apparel valued at gpproximately $1,000 were taken. Twe other robberies bave been perpetrated in the Baer store in the past three years. ‘Wearing apparel valued at $75 was stolen from the tailoring establishment of R. R. Hill, 1345 S street, last night. Entrance was gained through a rear window. The home of William Jarvis at 1019 Girard street northeast was entered some time Saturday night and jewelry, clothing, a revolver and flashlight, valued at $135, taken. A glass panel in a rear door was broken to effect entrance. Drug Store Looted. The drug store of Dr. Lee A. Walker, 2501 Nichols avenue southeast, was entered the same way between mid- night and 8 o'clock yssterday morn- ing, and 11 watches, valued at $275, were stolen, Oscar J. Oehler, 3710 Georgia ave- nue, reported his bowling alley was robbed Saturday night. Cigars, cigar- ettes and the contents of several slot machines were stolen. Oehler valued the loot at $31. Theft of $40 from a pocketbook in her home at 427 Virginia avenue southeast was reported by Elma Gar- rison, while Samuel Feldman, 1247 Seventh street, reported his pocket was. picked of his pocketbook, con- taining §12, a driver's permit and reg- istration card. RS Meteor Blamed for Barn Fire. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., December 19. —Burning of the barn of Charles Smouse near Lutzville, in Bedford County, Pa., is charged to a meteor which was seen short time before. All the contents except the live stock was destroyed. of pain, for he had known the small victim for years. He declared the small girl.probably was slain within two or three hours of the time the body was delivered to her father. Mother Spared Details, Mrs. Parker had been told only that her child was dead and has been spared from the knowledge of the hor- rors of that death. She attempted to lose herself in work about the house. The father slept for a brief time, over- come by weariness after the sleepless vigil he has kept since last Thursday night. - Then there is Marjorie, also un- knowing of the gruesome details. The grief has added the weight of years to Perry Parker, jr., 20, just a few d g0 a carefree college bo: DEPOSITS MORRIS PLAN BANK Undar Supervision U S. Treasmry LUMBER vs ) MILLWORK PAINT For ( HARDWARE Let Us Quote You a Price Small Orders Given Careful AT: tention, No Delivery Charge J. Frank Kelly, Inc. 2101 Georgia Avenue N.W. LUMBER—MILLWORK DU PONT PAINT—HARDWARE See Upper—Note sent by Marian Parker (lower), 12 years old, to her father, Los Angeles banker, when she was held by a kidnaper. - Her mutilated body was tossed from auto at the feet of her parent, after he had paid §1,500 ran- som for her return alive WANT NAME CHANGED. Mrs. Abrams and Sons Choose Wat- son as Substitute. Mrs. Maude W. Abrams and her two sons, Walter Scott Abrams and Kenneth Watson Abrams, today asked the District Supreme Court to change their names to Watson. Mrs. Abrams tells the court that was her maiden name and “for family reasons” she wishes to adopt that name. Kenneth Watson Abrams wants to be known as Kenneth Nicolll Watson. Attorney ‘William E. Richardson appears for the petitioners. An Open Letter to Husbands! Dear John:- Now that of that wives give bout time some woman r1d about the presen about the kind safety razors mas, it's-al tell the wo wives. NORRIS DENOUNCES HEARST AS UNFAIR IN MEXICAN EXPOSE __ (Continued from First Page) that there was something wrong with this document which you purchased.” Hearst Testimony Cited. The Senator recalled that when Mr. Hearst was on the witness stand be- fore the committee he eaid he had not attempted to learn whether the Senators had received any of the money. “The ordinary observer,” Senator Norris continued. “will not cease to take notice that the four Senators mentioned were all prominent in the Senate in their opposition to inter- fevence by our Government in the affairs of Mexico. It is rather re- markable that it is only this class ¢ of Senators whose reputations are attacked. These men were standing as forcefully as they knew how against a policy in Mexico which you were in favor of. “It is likewise peculiar that Calles, the President of Mexico, would spend his hard cash to bribe Senators who | were already advocating non-inter- terence—a. policy that he himself was anxious to carry out. We may disagree as to the kind of man Mr. Calles is, but even his enemies have never charged him with being either an ignoramus or an idiot. Asks What Motive Was. “What is your motive, Mr. Hearst? You have testified before the com- mittee that you have very valuable properties in Mexico. It is almost common knowledge that you were in favor of the overthrow of the pres- ent government. You evidently be- lieved that if a revolution could be started it would mean financial bene- fit for your. investments in Mexico. For the sake of making a few paltry dollars you are willing to blacken the character of honest journalists in your own profession. You were willing to cast suspicion upon the loyalty and the integrity of mem- | bers of the United States Senate. You were willing to charge that the Presi- dent of a friendly republic is a traitor to his country. You were willing and apparently anxlous to do something that would cause our Government to intervene in Mexico. “In other words, for\ the sake of your financial investments you were not only willing to ruin the reputa- tion of honest and innocent men, but you were willing to plunge our coun- try into war with a friendly neighbor and thus increase the army of widows and orphans and wounded and crip- pled soldiers.” Senators Condemn KExpose. Broadsides of coudemnation were fired in the Senate against the publi- cation in Hearst papers of the docu- ments when the Norris letter, from the Senator’s sick bed, was read at the request of his colleague, Senator Howell, Nebraska, and incorporated in the Record. Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, told the Senate that evidence in the slush fund investigation dis- closed conclusively that neither Sen- ators Borah, Norris, La Follette nor Heflin had “received one dollar or has been tendered one cent in connection with the purposes referred to” in the documents presented by Hearst, The Democratic leader, who is a member of the investigating commit- tee, explained that while he was not speaking for the committee, he be- lieved the opinion of the committee was unanimous as to certain phases of the case, Faith in Accused Senators. “All concerned in finding the truth concede that these Senators stand un- corrupted and incorruptible. ~As your deputy, your agent, charged with a mission from you, I am proud to reach out my hand to every one of these men. “It takes years to establish a repu- tation that will withstand the white light of publicity. One who has achieved that name has something valuable beyond price. “It is a erying pity that the great 14's open season for eckties an foolish n husbands e »s that hideous Lest yeer 11{:’::“ petticoats, & that went out of sty to grin (how in the I had to DT while thats whet it to thinkyw e to give you'll only end oomes! you love me I nsidious s;richristms shopping, f£rom tho! do all ¥o! and bear The year nigh-backed .3,?,3‘1’«1 '21a you ever :ht;l;nof Tjoye etend to be OVe: %oysfif' put .I had an appointment ve me that And the year before, {oh:tgams never. been erfectly atrocious £ its teken ogtor Sose stood ail i1t was thal vefore a1l studded with China set s wrappers, T cen, may be this year, advice have yourflelf it ts where hann e butb to Jelleff's and get me ki si1k Stoc ggflmfl & advise you and and six pa salesgirl gize - - six pairs what colors %o ve sure it's Nothing ;lse ‘will _do? had the spunk to te men give Golored stones gnh John at all, - o trifle heavier. MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1927. power of the Hearst papers has not been employed to purification of pub- lic office where crime is known to exist. “Hearst’s sin is not so much that he inconsiderately published documents involving the name and honor of guilt- less Senators, but that he failed through his agents of publicity to undo in part the wrong hé had done,” Senator Robinson added. Senator Johnson, Republican, Cali- fornia, another member of the com- mittee, followed. Never Believed Charges. “I never believed and never will believe that there was the slightest justification for the charges,” he said. “There was not a scintilla of evidence to connect the Senators with these charges in any way, shape or man- ner. “From every standpoint it has been demonstrated there never was the ightest fustification for naming the tors mentioned in the documents. Nor was there the slightest justifica- tion for publishing the documents with the names deleted.. We will go to the end of these investigations and we will find out just what those docu- ments are—whether forged or spu rious.” Senator Bruce, Democrat, Mary- land, a third member of the commit- tee, ‘said if he believed there were such documents in the secret archives of any government he would be de- lighted if they were brought to the light of day, where he could vindicate himself. He, too, defended the integ- rity of the four Senators named. Senator Jones, Republican, Wash- ington, the fourth member of the com- mittee present, the chairman, Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyivania, being out of town, told the Senate he wanted to add his own voice to those of the other members of the committee in vindication of the four Senators. Committee Widens Search. That papers from files of the offices in Mexico City may be sought by the Senate investigating committee de- veloped after a long conference yes- terday with Undersecretary Olds of the State Department, when the com- mittee sent out for additional papers, declining to give details of its quest. Opening a widespread secret inquiry after three days of open hearings, Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl- vania, chairman of the special com- mittee, announced Saturday night that the committee had reached no conclu- sions as to the genuineness of the documents which were published in Hearst papers. With absolution of the four Senators named in the Hearst documents— Borah, Norris, Heflin and La Follette —=given already by committee mem- bers, they are determined now to fina out how the documents got into existence. To this end, careful check is being made on the story of Miguel Avila, American-born son of a Mexican father and Itallan mother, who told the committee he purchased all the documents with money provided by Hearst and saw most of them ex- tracted from files in the Mexican archives in Mexico City and from the files of Arturo M. Elias, Mexican consul general in New York City, the supposed intermediary in this country ;nr ‘;nnsmilm of the $1,215,000 slush und. HEARST'S MOTIVE DISCUSSED, Series of Articles In Mexican Paper on Publisher’s Interests. MEXICO CITY, December 19 (#).— The newspaper Excelsior is publishing today the first of a series of articles by Julio Trens, Mexico City journalist, who traveled with William Randolph Hearst for two months when the American publisher was in Mexico in 1920. 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