Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1928, Page 4

4 "AL _EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928.° TRUTH OF MURDER CONFESSION SEEN Panzram’s Description of Slaying of Massachusetts Boy Supported by Police. That Carl Panzram, who is held in the District Jail to await trial on two charges of housebreaking here, may have been telling the truth when he con- fessed several weeks ago to the “mur- der” of two boys, one near Boston and the other in Philadelphia, was indicated today in a telegram received by local police from the police of Salem, Mass. Panzram was_arrested in Baltimore and is said to have confessed later to the burglary of two homes here, one the residence of Dr. L. W. Eugster, 3620 Macomb street, where he is alleged to have taken a radio set and several thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry. The radio set was in his possession when he was arrested, it was said. After he had been held in jail for some time, he sent for Maj. Peake, su- perintendent of the jail, and said he wanted to confess to the murder of two boys. Peake communicated with the police and Detective Richard W. Mansfield was sent to take the con- fession. He sald the first murder took place between Boston and Charlestown, Mass., in 1923, when he choked a 14-year-old boy and then knocked him on the nead | police elicited the information that nothing was known there of the mur- der and Pangram. Today, however, & night let- ter was received from Daniel J. Phelan, city marshal of Salem, in which it was said the details of the Massachusetts murder, as described by Panzram, tal- lied exactly with those of the murder there in July, 1922, of Henry McMahon, 12 years old, of 65 Boston street, Salen:. The telegram stated that on July 18, 1922, young McMahon disappeared from his home. Three days later the body was found by another youth who was picking berries. bushes at the foot of a large rock. The head was crushed in. The telegram goes on to say the boy was last scen on July 18 walking with a stranger about 30 to 40 years old, nearly 6 feet tall and wearing a blue suit and green- |ish cap. The man looked like a foreigner. “The confession and story is exactly what took place in the McMahon mur- der case. If prisoner is to be released from prison hold for this department and notify,” the telegram concludes. In Panzram's confession he said he had lured the youth from his home in Charlestown, Mass., by promising him 50 cents. About two miles from his home the youth was taken into the woods and murdered near a slough. The next day, he said, he robbed a big house in Newport, R. I. There he left a graen cap which was covered with blood, he declared. Parzram said he murdered an un- known youth in Philadelphia in August of this year and left the body near Pier 38. Philadelphia police replied that a body had been found some distance from that place, but that it was too bad- ly decomposed for identification and had been buried without an autopsy. Later they notified the local police that the case, in so far as they were con- cerned, was closed. With this information and the word from Boston that there had not been a that they did not want| ‘The bedy lay in some | J down as merely an effort to escape trial in this jurisdiction, so discredited his story. Azcordlng to Maj. Peake, Panzram, when he learned that his story was not credited, wrote letters to the State's at- torneys in both Philadelphia and Bos- ton, in which he insisted that he had committed murders in both places. ‘When questioned as to the motive for the murders, his reply was: “The State will be able'to prove the motive.” Panzram said he had done time in “lxll big houses, 3 reformatories and 200 ails.” “I started at 12, and I have put in 20 years in jail since then. I have done n;_o;'te tl}]mn my share. I am getting tired of it all.” JAILER IS SLAIN. Escaped Prisoner Shoots Deputy in His Cell. STARBUCK, Wash,, October 20 ). —Deputy Sheriff James Smith was shot and killed last night when he stepped into the cell of James Smith, a prisoner, with a tray of food. The men had the same names. The prisoner, Smith, who escaped, was arrested yvesterday on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. G. N. Mcozy, sheriff, said he was searched thoroughly and a gun taken from him before he was jailed. Brakeman Sues B. & 0. for $15,000. Paul A. Wood, 1462 Columbia road, yesterday sued the Baltimore & Ohio | A. Railroad Co. for $15,000 damages for alleged personal injuries. Wood says he was working for the company as a brakeman October 27 last, when he was injured in Eckington yard through the failure of the company to furnish a safe HKAN HANGE FOR SLAVG G Neither Father Nor Attorney Attends Execution of Youthful Murderer. By the Assoclated Press. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif, October 20.—Willlam Edward Hickman paid his legal debt to the State of Cali- fornia here yesterday when he was hanged for the ‘murder of 12-year-old Marian Parker, Los Angeles school girl, last December. Hickman was hanged at 10:10 am., and 15 minutes later was pronounced dead. The youth’s neck was not broken as is usually the case; he was strangled to death. This was because at the last second before the trap was sprung he began to collapse, shortening the dis- tance of his fall. Marching with steady step the 30 steps or more from the condemned cell to the gallows and up the 13 steps of the scaffold to the trap, he smiled faint- ly as the noose was adjusted around his neck, and with palms upraised together, whispered a hurried prayer. As the black cap was placed over his head, the prison chaplain, Rev. William . Fleming, read the litany of the dead. Warcden James B. Holohan waved his arm, and three convicts, inclosed within a hox-like superstructure over the scaf- fold, cut three ropes, one of which re- leased the trap. Hickman’s body shot through the open space like a plummet. slayer began his journey from the death celf'm the ucnflo{d he was unconscious. The action was so quick that many of the 250 spectators did not see the war- den’s signal. § Of the crowd that saw the execution approximately 50 were newspaper men. Two of the witnesses fainted. Atter Hickman was pronounced dead the body was turned over to a San Fran- cisco undertaker, who said burial would take place in Holy Cross Cemetery, San Mateo, Calif. ‘The slayer’s father, Willlam Thomas Hickman, did not attend the execution. He came to California from El Paso, Tex., made an unsuccessful appeal to Gov. C. C. Young and Warden Holohan to commute or at least delay the death sentence until an examination could be made by physicians with reference to his son’s sanity. Jerome K. Walsh of Kansas City, Hickman's chief counsel, also was not at the hanging. Unitarians have started a national drive to raise $400,000 to erect a library and administration building at their Chicago Theological School. ARCHITECTS SPONSOR LECTURES ON D. C. Grant and Partridge to Discuss L'Enfant Plan at Meeting Tuesday. The future Washington and the L’Enfant plan for the National Capital will be the subject of addresses to be delivered Tuesday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock in the Interior Department auditorium by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, and W. T. Partridge, consulting architect of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, at a meet- ing to be held under the auspices of the Association of Federal Architects. These lectures, it was announced today, will be open to the public. The Association of Federal Architects is an organization composed of archi- tects in the service of the Federal Gov- ernment who have joined their efforts in a collective study of the means by which a high standard of architectural expression may be fostered and main- tained in public works of the Nation. Louis A. Simon, president of the as- sociation, explained today that the or- ganization plans a study of the tech- nical phases of this work for the pres- ent season, as well as the cultural in- fluences affecting it. Thus, he added, members feel that a great opportunity is offered for service to the National Government. In addition to Mr. Simon, the officers of the assoclation are: L. M. Leisen- ring, vice president; T. S. McClelland, secretary, and H. C. Sullivan, treasurer. ‘Woman Injured in Fall, Mrs. Mary Buckley, 38 years old, of Monmouth, N. J., suffered a possible fracture of the hip when she fell while leaving the lunchroom at 1500 H street northeast last night. 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