Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1927, Page 4

FAMILY RALLIES - TO KIDNAPER'S AID “He’s Innocent,” Mrs. Hick- | man Cries—Father Wants Justice Done. ¥ the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, December Yam Edward Hickman's family raliied to his defense. His parents, separated eight three hrothers and a 17.vearold living with her mother here, were dazed by the vonth's confession that he kidnaped Marian Los Angeles. They agreed tl @id, the law must take its Mrs. Eva Hickman, n her home here. Edward at_ance. “They'll Kill him—they' Il kill him," &he sobbed when told of his capture. “He Needs Me.” oy won't give him a chance to #ay anything for himself. £e% to him some way, at peeds me o hadiv She was interrupted as newshoys filtered into her apartment. “EXtra, extra. killer found.” echoed through the building as neighbors scrambled for papers The daughter. Mary. and the three ®ons who have homes in Kansas City anught tn fort her. She became hysteric: Thomas Hickman tif he ourse. insisted on going to once. He shouts of the father. who — Wil | today vears | Parker of | collapse at Oh, T must | third floor | meparated from Mrs, Hickman when | the family lived in Arkansas, from hix home in El Paso, Tex.. appealed to his son to confirm or deny the report. Hickman. who remarried five years ago and has two children by this union, is a steam shovel engineer, He wept when told Edward had con fessed. He said he | here in 1926, when Edward graduated with briiliant records from high school. Wants Justice Done. last saw his son | “T would rather.be dead and in hell # thousand times than to think a child of mine would commit such an atro- eious crime.” the father told co-work ers at the railroad shops where he is employed. “I want to see justice done, even though it strikes at the heart of mv family, which has never had a stain on it.” he continued. “I cannot under stand what could have happened to | him. He was a bright. witty boy, and ‘went to church and Sunday school. and was 3 leader in school activiti Mrs. Hickman sent the following tel egram to her son: ASSOCIATED PPERS { Upper: Perry M. Parker, his wife an to right: Mrs. Eva Hickman, mother of | girl, but who PEA. nd Willlam Edward Hickman, uth, hitdren. Marian, the <lain child, is « who has adn vs she was murderad by a partuer in crime; Hickman and his sister, Mary Hickman. HICKMAN CONFESSES TO KIDNAPING, n bet n her parents. Lo lelt ed kidnaping the Parker BUT DENIES ANY SHARE IN MURDER "Your mother, brothers and sister | #till believe in you. Be truthful and trust in God. T long to be with vou. but ‘Cap’ Edward said for me to wait, 1 am praying he will let me come to you.” ‘ol. Charles Edwards, former chief of police here, 10 whom Edward was parolied when he was forgery while emploved in the hank where' Marian's father is an official, assured Mre. Hickman transportatio would be arranged for her to go to her ®on. When Col. Edwards informed the mother Edward had been captured, and wouid be “given a square de: she made an effort to control her emo- tioge. but fafied. i “Oh. if T conid just understand it.” she =obbed. “all 1 know is that myv hoy gone: that he is not here; that they ¥ he @id those things.” Consoled by Daughter. Mazy =ought to cansole her mothe “Please don't cry like that.”” Mary Pleaded. “They are not geing to kill Edward. We live in the United States. There will be a trial. A jury will d cide what is to be done. He will ha every chance to prove he ix innocent The mother’s sobs ceased for a time. but tears continued until her gingham dress showed them plainly. “The grief of all this is enough to Xill anvbody,” she continued. God and myselt know what T been through since this started. While the tension in the Hickman home increased, the news of the cap- ture caused thousands in the strects o acurry for newspapers. The extra editions seemed to explode the maze of theories and rumors current here for a week. Dr. Herbert L. Mantz, whose stolen sutomobile was used by the kidnaper. 2nd whose children were threatened Tuesday in & mynterions telephone €211, declared “that puts me out of the worry column,” Threatens Daughter. A man called Dr. Mantz a1 his office Tuesday while he Was dixcussing the Parker ease with two detectives. The man threatened harm to one of Dy Mantz's twin ghters, only 16 months ald. The physician also has a byearold son Efforts tn trace the call were unsic erasful. While police believed 1t threat came from a crank. Dr. Manty 100k precautions. Detectives were an #igned io his home, which is near the Hickman apartment. Wiile Dr. Mantz gave a fairly s curate description of the bandit whe 100k his motor car last Fail, he w unable 1o identify the robber as Hick man With Hiekman captured, police here eontinued efforts 1o trace the *“Ap. Arew Cramer” pamed by Hickman s bis accoraplice GENERAL MILLER RITES ARE SET FOR TOMORROW Prominent Industrialst and Phi- lanthropist to Be Buried in Franklin, Pa. By the Asnoured b FRANKLIN, ba., Gen. Charles Miller, prominer trislist and - philan hiopie Beath orourred Tuesdsy 1o rest hiere todsy Gen. Miller catie here from Alsace Yrance, his birthplace, while siil) his ‘tceap wnd begsn his business curecr selling sewing mnchines. Hix busdness career embracen many Of the eouptrsy’s big industiis) con eerne, including the Gulens ®ignal O Co L mnf e panerican 8teel Poundnies of which he was chalvman of ihe board w1 1he Vime of his dest), Mury charitabie oignnizations 1e ved Whergl dunstions Gen For %5 seurs he funiond | ® ok Brpnkiin Civil War veternne nutional eneampments Me vonn mariied twice snd ve oh) Gren wurvive . December Whome will be inlg o » " e from Hickman’s Father Wants Death for i Son, if He's Guilty By the Asm Kl VARG Ves., Jped Hope 1het bin son would be p tehed with denth If he 18 guilt The elusing of Matlan Varker expressed Thow M 45 fatier Wiklam baw MHickmsn Juw enmiape 1o his won the ) Pory Hernld yesteidoy elder Hickmaon raid My son 30 yous wee gullty of the dmie for which you are ohuryed l‘(‘ ¥ Goa togive your soul and . ol witn ol " gl the law of manking." mvicted of | 18y 30u be punished accordfug o | | ‘ Br the Associated Pross [} | PENDLETON, Oreg., December 23, | —The following confession of William | Edward Hickman was made to Parher | | Branin. correspondent of the Associ |ated ess, vesterdayv, Question—Whers is your partner? Answer—ife said for me o meet him at the Herald Hotel in 8an Fran- cisco Sunday. Put he was not there. ®o Tuesday morning I saw they hud my name. <o 1 got real scared then iand I planned to gt away myeelf, | thought I would zat away north be. cause they w ing In San Francisco, as 1 ut it in the | | pApers, and there wax nothing 1 could | do. After 1 saw him in Los Angeles, according to our appeintment, 1 said, | Where is the and he just kind | of grinned and A, “Whee When the father met me by appoint. ment, he spoke and said. “1 want to {xee my daughter.” and I said. “She in here.” And T think I sald she was asleep and 1 told him to give me the {money. “I have had troubls with !her.""and then he gave me the money | right there and I told him 1 would drive up there a little wav and let her | |out. and I drove out a little ways, | Question—Who was it cut her that way? | ~ | Accuses Cri Answer—This fellow named Andrew*| hia part was—1 ran away | [ from home and I waws in California | iand had heen working in the First Natlonal Rank and forged checks and | 1 and went back 1o Kansas v with my mother and 1 wanted 0 go ack a in. %o 1 then —so | ot thix coupe in Kansas City. which belonged to Dr. Mantz. [ think was the doctor, and 1 got out here At first 1 didn’t come direct here 1 went to Chicago before 1 came here {and 1 rented that apartment in Los "Angeles 4t the Rellevie Arms. | think It wam on November 23, or just . and on Thanks civing 1 went down to Ran Diegn and when 1 came back the next day I picked this man and a lady up. He maid his name was Andrew Crame and the lady's name wasx June Dun nin; I think it wa 1 was hy my self.” 1 @idn’t know any one here. | was making my Nving by hold-ups and 1 thought If 1 could get acquaint ed with eme oider man we ] work 1o better advantage and i wouldn't be as much risk and could get away with hold.ups | held up Arug stores and At im the reason 11 these guns. That 3040 he longs 1o Andrew. e left it thers w0 it Aidn't make any difference. Wa fworked severnl pl | Wanted Chl He wanted me 10 get some ehloro. form for him. and ether, | didn’t [ Ak him what for. Ro in one of oue hold ups 1 would zet out and he woold Arive the car. e would sit in the car and 1 wauld get the money and » er we wanted and go out and hen he would drive awny, 1 had not - intended heing A crook becaise vou will find out moon will get eaught but hee; o ko bAck 1o Kanwas vk and save enongh 1 ko Ao college 1Pk Colleze Knnmw Citv. And 1 thought if 1 nough meney Lo ko 1o e ana by working some during the diy, B0 hour or \wo every dav. 0 thnt way §oconld oy the tait‘on 1 thought i 1 could wave o thoussnd Tollars 1 thonght 1 eould wioit Feplember nnd no watter how R would @ walkh e o kot e honl e 1ot from this of hi boa g ned Parber had " " nwhed wht ' PINK moie o Iovondd pot mindg 4o, Thit [ Wil " M in Wier D this g« b “ i the bink 1aha ot [ with him At . PPRT! | » i daughier Lana ) oo e xhe Wan b Gnvorite daighier b vk ber down i b nhd wionnd e we whe b whe Wk of Another of her, b ot Niv Hovie e Fhimt Bunk sna hink he ) Yo shild wnd 1 thongh it Ahought we wouli e i Dom bin wueh vasier becaise he 1 s oh el of the bank und baondles oo | of Ahousends of dollars, wod | while | war tn the bunk. | » wll e inoney shipments come in smed 1o ko @romnd e viulis and an place in o bk wnd knew practl Uiy every unm in e bk Wel vider 1o et this e hn sounger gl | won afiaid i hey whe would be hayde ild probably ey L war n haby sw fixw Hovis I thought eit Parker. either would have enough to consider § Wik s Thoughn [l U ihink fore 1 thonght R el Nution ot ver m e ahle wet oMy | drean w Wil | von have read in the y settlement in own daughter. 1 meant no harm to either one, but T thought it would he easier 1o handle the older girl than a litile chi this man and T hoth went out wanted 1o sea her and her, and 1 looked in the telopl book 10 see where Mr. Parker lived. went 1o a house to se2 her when she came from school and T saw her rid ing around on a bicvele, but I didn't know she had n win sister untll Thursday morning. Watched Her at School. consideration of their ne 1 1 parked by the house early so 1| could sge her leave for school and could see what school she went 10, and | it ponped Into my mind that 1t 1 went for her at the school, that way. There was no plan. But I had been thinking about it and it popped into my mind when 1 saw the &irl that morning. 1 did not plan out the results ahe:d of that until 1 saw her that morning and that afternoon ers how it all happened: 1 went and told the teacher that her father had been in an accl dent and this other girl came over to I could get her sce which one of the girls I wanted. | and 1 rald I wanted the younger one She looked younger, but it turned on: they were twins, but she did not ques. tion me in any wa They asked what name. so { told them I remembered, but worked at the hank. real name—1 forg give them - wirl 1T w vounger one, and she said, and I said, “Yes, that is the one the father wax ealling for,” and one of the other teachers went and got the girl, and 1 #aw that she was the same Kirl | seen in front of the house, and | #t the schoolhonse that morning. After we came out of the aschoolhouse we got into the car and we left and she started asking questions about whiat had happened and how it ap pened and who hit im and 1 made answers to all er questions. “Kind of Liked Her.” was her first 1 Aldn’t think 1 told them 1| T didn't give my ame 1 did which 1 answered evervthing wnd she got | in and we then started h st having a keneral conversation a eI Sl conydrentionan chanix and achools and anything that Ame up In conversation generally with peonle, and we got well and closely ac- avainted and 1 really kind of 1k, her. 1 1 not look her in the face when I told her she wis kidnaped, ax though nothing had happened. When 1 told her nothink ad renlly appened her father she didn’t worry or o or anything Bhe took it eal L tola her she could Hze Af 1 got caught what T would have to wuffer and 1 would have to tie nowe and tie her month whe conldn’t ke nny whe mald, "leane don't Ao 10 will promise n nke Any noise w0 Tdidn’t te her and we drove round all that afternoon and went tor a thow that nikht —even went to a pie- ture show - the Rinlto ter in Al hambrn A whie Nt do or sy thing and 1 orenlly didnt o A her wny harm, nnd here In where thie other mun's et of it played in, He waw have the hiding place for the girl and to keep her qulet, vas mupposed 1o ket the money Ue only wa $200 or $a00 1t of the 81800 e wsid he didn't k and w wer ould be and 1 It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow, “TnPN, < MORR:S > PLan. ” - Easy to Pay Monthly Deposit For 12 Mon $10.00 $15.00 $120 $180 8240 $300 $360 $540 $45.00 $1,200 $100.00 6,000 $500.00 'HE MORRIS PLAN BANK ndes :l U. 8, Treasus ‘Hos HYRKET, N, & e | L a look at want much money anvway. He seemed to like the idea of kidnaping the girl and holding her rather than getting the money, Companlon Took Girl. Thursday, that night after the show, 1 met this man and he ook the girl in charge. He took her and the next d 1 saw her, that was Fridav evening Well, T kept writing all these letters | her write a letter b King it seem like she was being treated bad and, 1 don't know. | «he dlin't seem ta like this man and didn’t want to go with him and want. d 1o stay with me, instead. but 1 couldn’t do a thing like that. We had 1o %o through with th ne. Anyway, she wanted to go home as s00n as possible and 1 thought if the father was willing to hand over the mon:y and he had it, it was perfectly all right and ax xoon as 1 got it over with, the better it would he for me anvway. 8o 1 called up her father and he said he had the monev and we plunned a meeting, and that was, we were to meet at 4 certain street, And then, after that, 1 called up his house from a drug xtore between hix home and the meeting place. 1 went up there and sat in the I saw had [ |and to her :ihim and there were two cars driven “losely togather side and follows lite They lived on Gramercy which ix Just one block these 1wo carm stopped and 1 drove out on the 4 him to the meeting street, north, and 1 when'T maw riain were detectives and they w e gRolng try and trap us 1 concluddd o tnke the girl back id turn her over to the man again. | wrote them an other letter and thix other man suz- gested that 1 was geiting the time too hut that would make it much safer and they were making such a hig search he was afraid they would | fnd the girl. Brings Sult Case, fo Saturday when he came to the apartment for this suit case and when he opened it up and showed me how it wan, 1 was surpeised. He said, “the police are already suspicious of the place,” and he xald she was crying and he tried (o stop her or something like that wnd he figured that the wafest way would be to go nhead and fix it that way and for me to keep my suit cuxe in the car and to ko to thisx place and if the police stopped me before 1 could get rid of it, (hey might look at the suit case and never stop to open It and I thought that might be all right. He had already gone ahead and opened {t anyway, mo in this letter 1 told th kvl futher it 1 were paid before clock and that night (hat hix daugh ter would still be alive and [ didn't find out until after 6 ek when he came up 1o the apartment Fiven If 1 hund written thin letie aft er we called even if xhe had heen wlive, I thought he wanted his danigh- [ ter, wnyway, no matter whit condi Tth & We are head: o for ape. cial trousers in Washingt Thousandsof s te mateh . You te find the right pair you need. Just byl your odd ¢ By B> Bap in v [ Well they | tlon she was in, that ha would rather { have her and xo 1 went ahead und | ealled him up and planned the meeting place. He was there al) right and as it _happened the night before, 1 was there before he came. And if there had not hean any de- | tectives he would have gotten her hack. And if thix fellow had not killed- her it would have come out all right as we had planned. hecause I am sure | she didn’t want to die bhecause when | she was with me she xald: “I wonder what the school kide will way when I go back to school? They will want know what 1 did and everythi Hie man Breaks Down. T am terribly sorry she was killed, myself, because 1 sure liked her. (Hick: man wept here.) Glve use the description of this t you sny killed h A. He waw about b teet 8 or 9 inchen tall and had almost black halr, and 1 don’t remember the color of his eyes. | A far as I remember I think he had | | | ‘ | | | | | | { have been from the way he had heen | Rray overcont and he just had the one Stayed By Himself, | 28—but he looked older because, | | Q. Where was he staying? | Iplan and I my part. Crooks some- {and it makes everything safer and know where he kept himself. " A. No: T was iIn that apartment to do with it? I think her name was Dunning cness. $ or 26 years Q. You don't know what address can see the condition 1 was in with time, ‘anyway. 1 had heen to a good and_ Philadelphia and Washington, Q. Do you know where yvou were at places. | address for a {saw him? the apartment and he told me when ) | 1 could safely get away, as the police- | een leading an Impure life. He had A xore upon his chin. but that might | eating. The times I saw him, when | | picked him up, he had on » kind of {suit—» kind of tan wuit, or brown. | He had a kind of rough fac | Q. How old was he? | A. He looked to be not much over think he had been leading a kind of hard Jife. A. He would not tell me that he- | cause he wus to huve his part in the | times will go back on each other if any one knew what the other one did | less dangerous than If we * knew where each other stayed and 1 don't " Q..He didn't stay in the same apartment with you? - [all by myself. g’ | Q. Did this woman have anything A1 never waw her azain. Ter first rame was June. Q. How much did she welgh? A. About 126 or 130 pounds, | fold, 1 guess, they appeard to e a well-matehed couple. ey had Al 1 never did know. Yon | eing # crook anyway when I picked them up. 1 had heen alone quite ma places—ta Chicago, and | went to New York and Pittsburgh D. C., hefore [ came ont to the Coast No Meeting Place. to mest him or where to eall him? A. No; we always planned to meet Q. You planned where vou wonld meet again. You didn’t ‘have any A. No, sir. ? Q. When was the last time you | | A. The last time T saw him was | when he brought the suit case up to 1 ot the money—If 1 got the money— |10 go up to Ran Francisco as soon as |men were awfully xuspicious here | fanyway. that did happen Sundav morning. was there were ahout 200 detectiv came up to the | apartment and looked over the apart- | jment and started searching it. One lof the fellows had the name of the| apartment written on a paper and they searched every place. When they came to my apartment, | It is interesting the way I was singing and plaving the phonograph, The detectives came In and looked around and did not express any suspicion of me at all, I went out in the haliway and| | talked to seven or sight of them, hest | detectives in Low Angeles. T asked {them If there was anything I couid | 4o and. of course, there was nothing 1 | {could do and they searched the apart. | | ment, 1] Took Parts of Body. Q. He had the girl or part of the | |effects of the girl when he came up to the apartment? | | Yes, sir, 1 guess he threw the ! other parts away where they said | [they were thrown away. | Q. What parts did he hav in the suit case? | | il Just had—she was cut right e # the middie of the body and her | Arms-—~he had them fixed up and he | had her dress put on her, he had her | dress and a little sweater thrown on her face and. of course, she was dead. | Rut the way he had fixed the mouth | |1 did not look very deathlike, He had }-u...- litle threads fixed through her | {evebrows which seemed to hold her | eves open, | Q. He opened the suit case so you | micht sea what he had there? | A, Yew, uir, ! Q. Where were you when he did that? i A Q. one thing up there That wae in the apartment What did vou say to him when | you saw that? A, 1 et out a vell of sueprise and | wanted (0 know why he did a thing | | 11ke that. 1t was quite a shock to me. | Tle wan not supposed (o bring her up | to the apartme We * supponed | (0 meat Thuraday when I got her and | trned her over ta him That is the last living? Noj that was the xame day T got | her from the school—that is, after we | had gone o the show. He told me (o hold her until tonight mo when he did toke ) 1t would n e wuspicions and ne would U We met and he took her. had noenr, o Ford enr; 1 | ber the license number L Q What Kind of a A A Ford conpe Lold ear He | don’t remem- - owas 102 1C was o kind of The only tima 1 saw # thing EISEMAN'’S F Sts. ROUSERS TO MATCH YOUR ODD COATS t $ .65 up i | fat ['her to him. That was | of her alive. | meet “WONDER IF 1 COULDN'T FAKE INSANITY?" HICKMAN QUERIES “How Does Fellov\; Act When He‘s Crazy?" He Asl(s—Wants to Conduct Own Defense When Trial Opens. By tha Associated Prey DLETON, Ore., Dacomber 22 “Wonder if I counldn’t pretend that 1 was crazy,” remarked Willlam K. | Hickman to one of his guards at the Jail Hege, following hix arrest for the kidnaping and slaying of Ma ian Parker, Los Angeles girl. How does a fellow act when he is 2v?" he asked. Tater in the e watlon, he declarcd he wanted to conduct his own case when he goes on trial. “Remus acted as his own and got acquitied, didn't h kidnaper argued. Hickman was quoted hy officers an saying that he considered that the “death notes” he wrote to the father of the slain girl were masterpieces. Hickman declared that Parker, the girl's father, was a “good friend” of lawyer the got him out of k.” when he and that he ! his, A4 Parker the e atl the | wax arvested for forger liked Parker. “I hope to have the apportunity to look him in the eve and tell him that I adid not kill his daughter,” re- marked Hickman, One of the Jailer attendanta brought his wife and fwo «mall danghters into a look at Hickmn of them, Hick 1o one an he is just ahout the wize of Mar- When Rev. . }. Robins, pastor of the First HBaptist Chirch, ealled on Hickman to give him consolation if desired, Hickman said he did not care s religion 1d he ton much like heing a hypocrite at this time.” he wid. Talk ;f Violence Is Absent in Pencilcto;l. th_re M:n Are Cowboys and Carry Guns | By the Awsociated Pre PENDLETON, Ore,, Decefnber 23.— This city of the buckaroo, where co boys still are cowboys, where the som- brero is always in style, and pistols in holsters are not an uncommon sight, got its biggest thrill in vears in the arrest of Willlam E. Hickman. Los Angeles kidnaper. The last axcitement of this magnitude was the murder of Sheriff Til Taylor in a jail break six years ago. The Tavlor tragedy stirred Pendle. ton and the cow country hereahouts, | but when the slavers were captured «and brought back here. thee was only a slight manifestation of violence. previous | Qome of the more resolute kicked in the outer door of the jail. but thev were talked out of any attempt of tynehing. This was cited hy officers as indicat- ing that there wae no danger of an outburst against Hickman. Resentment against the slaving of Martan Parker was voiced on all sides, however. A great throng gathered ahout the fail, but the reason seemed to be plain cnriositv—a ds to get 1 glimpse of the notorious fugitive. Emblematic of the season of peace and good will, there stands in each street intersection of the business dis trict of Pendleton a great Christmas iree luden with multicolored lights. of it was when he teok this girl, be- cause he never did bring It around. He always used my car, which I had taken on hold-up jobs and things like that. Then the next day—he kept her all that night—and the next eve ning she came over and got in my av and st in my car. We drove around until 1 called her tather and planned this meeting. When * it turned out a failure we didn’t meet the same place or time. It was on Grant, way down on Grant near Washington boulevard, when 1 gave the last T saw brought the suit to know whe: Wait a minute He I wanted He said, * case and she was. and kind of grinned and set the suit | case down on the xofa an opened it. I have already told you what I saw | and everyvthing. Q. You were to meet him in Frisco N case vou got away with the mongy ? A. When I got the money I was supposed to meet him there and make | an quick a getaway as I could and him at the Harris Hotel in Fris Just where that is Planned Hotel Meeting. Had you stayed at that hotel be- Q | tore? A. No, he told me where it was, but 1 have forgotten the name of the peer, Q He didn't ten bad staved there before or not did he? A. He said he knew where it was and he would be ind the hotel there any way. If | got to the hotel he would be there Q. After you got the monev, DeMoll’s Real Xmas Suggestions YOUR CHILD’'S FUTURE HAPPINESS MAY BE FOUND IN THIS YEAR’S Ghristmas Gift FMoiber. bow wonderin. 1o have o 1 cam ivarn Toe Doils M did you do then? your apartment? A beat it as quick as I could and left the carina parkting station. where the.po- lice found it later. That das on Grant. and 1 went back to the apartment 4nd zot my things together, The next morning as one of policeman came up there to searc that made me glad er, for then I took first all of the evidence in one pack- age and went downtown and checked them at a place. I left most of the <tuff in the apartment—some littie clothes and some other articles. a slicker and a pair of overshoes. I put the stuff all in one case and took that nd some of my other things and took them downtown and checked them at the place and went to a show and after the show 1 went out in Holly- wood to get this Hudson and T just {came on back to the station and put these grips in there and thess guns, |and drove right away for San Fran: isco. > Did you go back to | Questioned Three Times. T was stopped three times hefore 1 got through and 1 was questioned by policemen and there wasn't one of them suspected me at all Q. You were stopped three times be- fore you got 10 Frisco” A. Yes, wir, T was searched right of Los Angeles and then before 1 | got_inside Ventura and stopped by a You whether he |State officer and was stopped by two ! na men just out of Los Angeles. In the | next meeting it was more scary than sver because they hadn't suspicioned {then by the wav they asked ques- tions. 1 told them I was driving to what | Ventura to get my mother—that was me I knew it was a1l I got the money that night and ' IHMAN REWADS PSS SR Sharing of Money Between Officers and Seattle Mer- chant Is Urged. By the Associated Prese. 1.O8 AX LER, Decomber 23 pledzed for FEAward Hickman the 353,006 mark. total reported on wi'h $25.000 24di at two of the radio sta whirh money has tors of the kidn Parker. No formal claims have made aw yvet hv thowe connec Hickman's captire. e L4 tnday wards the William presed T captire hand heen offered e v or M en 3 Amounts Offered. The following are the ar An - | ed from the pubiic * radio KE of its : wation r o <ult ation K. Radio station K itv of Los Angeles, $10.000, Los Angeles Countv, re adio s | { Retary Club of M Tota). 87 Pledged at Pledzed a Grand totai, Would Share R KFWR, $21 0 KMTR. §2 343 eward. zreater part of Should be given officera who capty the balance to B dasher who cashed the § t that furnished the first ev | the kidnaper's presence in the Nor - | west. Mavor Cryer, sonal reward of order the appropriation of the ¢ $10.000 reward. recommended sion of these. The mavor sa in of the unusual reward part she e capturing officers and the Sea haherdasher. and part he d among others who plaved a promi part in the intensive search. Radio mation KFWR that it had been deluged phone calls w.zing that L. H. Barlow who traced the ey proving Hickman tn be kidraper, also shouid reward. who offered a view tal i e Lisut. 1t expert onclusively the wan e share in e — Sunday nizht and 1 toid them m: name was Beck. [ hud just st . car. but knew that it eould not be re ported that quick and | had a ficense certificate ri with me [ dida’t need to show them that. for one of the fellows sald. ‘Lt him go a ard there was one State off think it was just ws we we into Santa Barbio -he did 1 He just sain “Hello, you™ ~And [ said, 1 rizhe,” something like that, and he said. * right 1 said, “Are von still on nZ case? and bhe <aid vour life we are.” I sa You get him.' and | thing to ail the rest joved the conversat was pot scared, hut that kid “You be “T sure pope said the xan f them. 1 er n At frst when they up. Not Too Late to Make This a Baby Grand Xmas Come in tonight or tomorrow and we'll have one there Xmas Eve Prices, $585:00 to $1,385.00 Sold on our Nmas Club Plan it vou desive. Make a small pay ment down and start paying balance next vear OPEN TONIGHT DeMoll Steinway & Weber Duo Avt Reproduc Piano and Furniture Co. Twelfth & G ng Pianes