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CITY
EDITION
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Contolldatlon of The Evening Newt and
The Rossburg Review
An Independent New ubllahtd for
the Best l' rttefc
VOL. XXVIII NO. 209 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON,. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 23, 1927;
VOL. XVIII NO. 283 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Auwutiliv
Rose
SEV1EW
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Today
The Jury Shakes Hands.
A Million Billion Years.
Monkeys Ride, Don't Bet
A Poor Railroad Soherne.
By Arthur Brisbane J
; (Copyright 1927 by Star Company)
George Remus demonstrat
ed adaptation to environment
by making $1,000,000 at
bootlegging. He murdered1 hie
wire, snooting her down de
spite pitiful- appeals for mercy;
. Remus told a Cincinnati
jury, . of men and women, that
frantic jealousy of a Mr.
Dodge made him insane at the
shooting moment. . , ;
The jury on the first ballot
: acquitted him, and when Ri-.
mus after1 acquittal, was safely
in his cell,1 and appropriately
an tears, members or the jury
rusnea ,to shake his hand and
congratulate him.' ,
, He may have to go. to the
insane asylum for a while to
prove his good faith. ' :
' ,
" Crime is a puzzling- phe
; homenon. Hickman; a 1 9-year-;
bid ' kidnaper ;and murderer,
j: fori whom ail' California -i-hunt-f.d,
was a model bay1- in ;' his
' Sunday school class, vicepresi
ilent of his high school class.
TheSj graduation annual said of
him. ' "Excellent ; scholastic
standing, unequalled record in
turriculum activities a'nd a
nigh standard of ideals."' ;:
Hickman is thought to have
kidnaped and ' murdered : a
young girl. Partly for revenue.
The ' father had opposed his
employment in a bank.
Mr. Remus also killed partly
for revenge, his wife had de
ceived him with another man.,
There are different .degrees
of revenge, and of murder.
Twelve jurors unanimously ac
quitted Remus. Not one juror
in 100,000,000 would vote to
acquit Hickman. ,
' '
The Reverend Cadman re
marks that "this planet may
exist for nearly a million bil
lion years longer." An anxious
Christian asks, , "Do you be
lieve that the soul sleeps in the
grave with the body a million!
billion years waiting for - the
judgment) If I really believed
it, I think I should try to have
a pretty good time while still j
in the tlesh.
.
The Reverend Dr. Cadman
tells the inquiring soul that
when you are unconscious a
million billion years seems no
longer than a minute and a
half and tells the soul, "It is
better to awake from, a pro
longed torpor with clean re
collections in your conscious
past than as a moral idiot."
The child that "can't wait a
week for Christmas, and the
Christian that can't wait a mil
lion billion years for the
judgment day," are both in
teresting, and both children
mentally. - ' ' v .
'
Greyhound Tacingjn Ameri
ca has been less successful than
in Europe. Fewer fools 'have j
bet on the racing, partly . be-
cause the cheating was - a little
too apparent, partly because j
dogs running alone didn't seem
exactly like a race. '
That has been attended to, !
and the betting simpleton will
probably enrich the game more
generously.
Small monkeys have been
trained to sit on the grey
hounds' backs and pretend to
.(continued on page i.)
mm dm MUb warn mi
GIRL MURDERED
BY KIDNAPERS
if
This Is Marian Parker, -little
murdered a few days after sne nao oeen Kidnaped.:-Discovery of her
body was made by her father, who had just paid ransom money for her
safe re lea co. ' The crime has stirred Los Angeles as has. no (nurder In
many years. - The above. picture was taken a few days before the girl
was kidnaped. ejaxa1
HICKMAN
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Profile of Captured Youth, Who
Maintains He Did Not Mutilate
Body of Marian Parker.
Adjutant to Visit In Portland
Ted Post, adjutant at the Ore
gon Soldier s Home, left today for
Portland, where he will Join Mrs.
Post for the holidays. Mrs. Post Is
engaited In work as one of the
county health nurses of Mult
nomah county.
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Los' Annelen 'olrl 'wKn' u,a fnuLn
A MESSAGE OF
FAITH IN BOY
"It Can't Be True ' She
Sobs as She Pens" Tele-'
gram to Her Son.
WANTS TO SEE HIM
'"They'll Kill : Him," She
Cries as Fears of Mob
Violence Mount in .'
Her Minds.
(AuocUted PreM Leased Wire) -
KANSAS CITY, Dee,. 2J. Wil
liam Edward Hickman's mother
still could not believe ' It today.
She refused to see. her son as a
kidnaper, holdup man, and actor In
one of the most gruesome crimes
In criminal annals. .
Kven his confession printed in
morning papers was hearsay, In ef
fect, to Mrs. Eva Hickman.
"It Just can't be true," she
cried.
Then awful doubts assailed her
but she thrust them from her
mind and sent a message of her be
lief in bi mto the son, in Jail at
Pendletc, Oregon, charged with
the. kidnaping and murder of Ma
rian Parker In Los Angeles.
'Your mother, brothers and
sister still believe In you,"
said the message. "Be truthful,
and trust In God. I long to be
- with you, but 'Cap' Edwards
said for me to wait I am pray.
ing he will let.me come to
you."
"Cap" Edwards is Lieutenant
(Continued on p:ge 6.)
MOTHER
SENDS
'lllPUT DDrTrlti,lu,AM li i i a a ! 1 t i n
iu in i rnr i r mi .vr r-11 i iiv innin
I'M my;
BOY KIDNAPER
"Reirnu Got Away With)
It," Say Hickman With
a Bland Smile. - -
TELLS OF : KILLING
Towel Was Stuffed Into
, Dismembered Body Be-'
cause It Was i Filled 'V,
. (Auoolated Proa Lroicd WIre)-
.... ..-.. '. ( i . ' i
; PEMDI.ETONi Deci S3,--"Wo4-der
If I couldn't. pretend that f was
crazy ?" remarked willlani 'K, Hick
man to one or hla guarfls at the
Jail here,- following hlsi arrest for
the kidnaplUK and ,slaylnK ot Ma
Tlan Parkerl' Los Annate;. '
How does a fellow acf wnW' t,
! he Is crazyf' he asksd;' .'Later it
I! in the oenveraatloe ho , d-
. elaced. h.wanj-a to conduct
. his owA case wheji"He"goe oft" "I
'Irlal.; ! J' .1, .. f.I . Jjj
''Haiils aced! 88 (lis ovn towyiij
aill M Botqitltt dldij
lie
... . ... ni..
i Discussing. "vjthjofflceM,' th jeillfj
wf ol mnrian, fwnicn lie t lniUtet)
was done by a' confederate' hV M
marked- Omt', dismemberment ' or
her boily'cbuM. iiot hare'lee dbn&
... ... .uiful Knout, Jf r, y
f "Whent a human boily Js put; up
ino- siencn is awrui. ns. rnuid-itint
nave, oeen .uone In the apaitnient."
i-iicxman: was quizzed .about
the - towel which had ' hMn "
0 stuffed Into itle jrflsemboweled
parvof the oJrl's body. Me said
- his pal, iwhobi'-'he . acvtfsed'Of
the aotualrKIIJ,lng, . tolo the
towel'from'hie room 'to get
- him In bid' - Asked' why-the
towel was used, he said, the
. girl's i body 1 was filled with
blood and -the towel had to -be' '
used to absorb It. - :
The laundry mark 'On the towel
caused officers last Sunday morn
ing to visit Hickman's apartment
in L9 Angeles, .but they did not
disturb hlifi.-i . ,( v
.Says Towels Stolen
"This gavo Jrae an awful scare,"
he waB qiidtefl as saying. "Two of
my towels wore .missing,, and If
they had found that out It might
have gone, hard with-, me." Hick
man was quoted by .' officers ' as
saying (hat he considered the
"death notes" wrote to ' the
father, of the slain girl were mas
terpiece literary productions.:; .
Cbntradlctlng a. theory that the
kidnaping had- beep done for' re
venge, Hickman declared that Par
ker, the girl's father, was a good
friend of his. He said Parker got
mm out -or a scrape at the bank"
when he was arrested for. forgery
uuu uuu no iiKvti i amer. j
"I hop to have the oppor- '
tunity te look Mr. Parker. In
the y and tell him that I did '
not kill his daughter," .re.,
marked Hickman. ;. '' . '
One of the, Jail attendants
brought bis wife and two ' small
daughters into the cell' to have &
look at Hickman. . " :, t '
Just Marian's Size , ' '
Pointing to one. of them. Hick
man said: "She Is Just about the
slie of Marian."
When Uey. W. H. KoblnB, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, callfd
on Hickman to give him consola
tion If desired, Hickman said he
did not care to discuss religion.
"It would be too much like belnc,
a hypocrite at this time," he said.
Kin Local Woman ts Dearf
Word has been received hers br
friend of Dr. and Mrs. Mrs. Clair
K. Allen tbat the letter's brother.
Rimer Whit, passed away at the
Veterans' hospital '- in .Vancouver
the 21st of the rnontb.' Dr. and
Mrs. Allen snd family left for the
north Tuesday nJKht on receiving
word that Mr. White was quite
low. They will be away from the
city indefinitely.
HICKMAN 'HELD
IN . CITY JAIL IN
C 6 M MUNICADO
j PENDLETON; Dec;. -23.
Williarrt E.' Hickman la to'
be' hfcld incommunicado at
the city jail here' until.' ar-.
rival of. Chief of Detectives
Cline of. Los Angeles, who
Is expected to arrive some
time today. . This. 'WBS.. an4
nounced by Chief of Police
Gurdane. He said he receiv
ed a request; from; Asa' G".
Keyes, V district ' attorney , at
Los . Angeles; - tmt . Hickman
not be permitted to do any
more' talking for publication
until the Los ' Angeles .offi
cers, had - an opportunity to.
question him. Chief i Gur
dane said he had ; been' ad
vised (hat Cline and Keyes.
were enfoute to Pendleton
by airplane, and that - they
would reach here some time
today.; ' I ) ; ' i ':!' '
According to plans . early
today,- Hickman ,- is to be
started for Los Angeles to
night.. Chief, Gurdane .and
State Traffic Officer Lieual
len expect to go to Los An
geles with Hickman. They
arc to be Bccompanied (by
sin attorney and . expect . to
soe.-vabout. rowarclt,fqr. the
capture' of - Hickman. H .
GOOD NIGHT'S
JESTED
Guards Frightened for a
WhiU," Thinking He ;
rHad Suicided.
J' ' ii.'. " I y,t , .
t.i,-; U; . r .... ,..t
wrote ' no Letter
Declares That Letter Mailed
to Seattle Police . Was
Not His Prpyer .
! yr ,' Service Held. ;
, " (AMoiutrd rrtM.tiwit Wlr) ' ' ,
. EENDIJ3TON, Dec! 23. Jn his
guarded cell at the Jail, where be
slept solidly through the night fol
lowing his capture yeBterday,' Wil
liam E. Hickman, I.os Angeles kid
naper, stirred on his cot at dawn
and asked his guard the time. Told
It was 0:30 a. in., he turned and
fefl back 'Into a sound sleep.
Outalue the streets were quiet, a
feathery . snowfall had whitened
sidewalks and pavements, few per
sons were abroad, and newsboys'
cries alone broke the silliness. In
the Jail corridor half a doien men
lounged. ' -- ' .
Guards Frightened
., lilckman's guards were fright
ened In the early morning hours
when one of them reported that he
had watched the prisoner for two
solid hours without observing
movement, or even hearing a
breath. Fearing he might possibly
have, taken some concealed drug,
Ihey roused him enough to deter
mine bo was alive.
,- They then combed through his
mass of hair to make sure that
he had secreted no pill there. '
Hickman was rouBed for break
fast at 7:1C. He ssld be wss hun
gry. His meal consisted of egg
sandwiches and coffee, which he
consumed with apparent relish.
' Holds Brief Audience .
PKNDLKTON. Ore.,- Dec. 23
William Edward Hlekman. held
herfl'-for kidnaping of Marian Par
ker, It year old Los Angeles girl,
who wss brutally slain, held a
brief audience in the city Jail this
morning.
.To The Associated Press ho
(Continued on page 6.)
SLEEP
Iriyjiyiln liwiliyJuvli Inl
1:08 ANGELES POLICE BELIEVE
HICKMAN LIEING AND EXPECT
HIM TO SOON BREAK DOWN
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' LOS ANGELES, Dec. ( 23. Andrew Oliver Cramer, implicated by William E.
Hickman as ah accomplice in the Marian Parker case, was located. .today in Lincoln '
Heights' jail here, where he has been a prisoner since: last' Augtt'st, thus eliminating 1
him. notice sav. from' anv connection With the crimev,rv1" !.;" j 1
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FATHER WANTS;
SON KILLED IF
HE IS GUILTY
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Thos, ; Hickman in Txa8
t Npt Coming' to" Coast
to Be With. Him.
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MARRIED A I MEXICAN
"'? '
4'
Wein I; Broken English,
c rails .to Pt9w Any unet ,
! :'!' --Father 'Says Boy
' '.' Should Pay. . L
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vt.,(AnooUte4 PreM Jutl Wire) . .
Kit, ; PABQ, - Texas, 'doo. ' liA
Tbonjas-; HIcHman! father of
nam uawaru mcKman, coniesseu
kldnAper'of,Marlnn r Parker, Lob
Angoles school girl, suld that he
would not gd to Jj Ik sod. held In
JuJhot PendJotp4,l Gregon, .1 .
Bowed with grief after rending
the ConTesBlon made o Pendleton
uutbrtrltlos thefather said that he
would continue, his work here lis a
rdllroad ..' oradai .operator at , 'the
Southern Pacific shops. I
8tlll refusing today to be
lieve the gruesome tales told
by his son . of the kidnaping
' and killing of the little, girl,
ths'father .waits for some word
from' the boy saying that it Is
all a mistake,: that he. is not
guilty of the crime for which
he Is accused.
After newspaper men hnd told
Thopias Hickman that hlB son had
been arrested in Oregon and that
he had admitted the kidnaping.
tho father broke down and wept.
"I cannot believe that Edward did
this," hfl said, and added: "Hut If
he Is guilty of this horrible crime,
although he 1b my' son, he should
suffer the death penalty."
Then' In dosperatlon, tho father
sent a message to the boy plead
ing: .
' "Let me know, thru the El
Paso Herald, on your, word of
honor as a son to his father In '
anguish of both, If you are lm- .
plicated in this crime. If you
were, then God forgive you and
have mercy upon the aoul of
your father, mother and your
. brothers and sisters."
Put Edward has madn no reply.
Thomas Hickman, who came to
El Pbbo a year ago, married a Mexi
can woman and has two children
by her. a boy of four and a baby
girl. The Mexican mother goes
about the house with a smile un
touched by the grief gripping her
husband. "Yes. he told me that It
was his boy," she prattled In brok
en English. "Sure I'll tell the
children when they are old enough
to understand, I guess."
Puneral to Be Held Ssturday
The funeral of Mrs.
Ellxiheth
Wood, who passed awnv veslerdnv
at her home In PnvrnvlllA will
take place at 2 o'clock Saturday :
afternoon at the chapel of the
with M. E.
Rltter In charge, inter
ment will bo In the
cemetery at
Canyonvllle.
(' ' n LJ-i..'lJ J.. 1 .1
a woman known as June Dunning, who also was -named- by".,
Hickman in his confession to
Cramer s brother, rrank
ty jail, serving a term for robbery, j Andrew was sentenced for
bootleggipg. 1 ' -.'.'".yj '- '''' ' -.' .; ', .'. ' . ' ' , '',''. -
Andrew Cramer said that his brother, had ?'kept company" .
with Rose Hurst,-alias Rose Cramer, whose true name was taid.
1 d : rv.. -- 1 - A 1 - . t r t n..L
iu ira iwu iuiuiiiig emu wno,nos a ,siwerf junc iumiiiig uuim
women operate rooming houses, Cramer said, Police were or'
dered to bring both women; td headquarters for questioning. - j
1 . .'.'I h Says He, Knows Hickman ' " j : 1 .. i i' t :' I,':.' f
i '."l know Hickman,"'.' "Andrew Cramer ' tod detectives. "1
don't know why he picks an me. Of course it is impossible for
me to have been in , on that-killing. 'It's too' ridiculous to talk
about. L've been, right hat all the timel'": " ' " '! '. v . lt '
The woman tho prisoner named as Rose Dunning was said
by him to, have1 a police' record in San Francisco, , , .-, v(
' ' H ?M i f I ' Hickman just' Smiles' ?V:'.'.'.V ysfU'ljy'
, v i , PENdLETOh, Deci 23; 1 Peering thru the ars of his till
Here today, William E. Hickman smiled when informed Andrew
Cramer', the man he' named as slayer, of. Marian .Parker, had
been in jail at Los Angeles since last August. , "j ,'. i r ,'-"' ,
. ; Without confusion' he said that the man he had been, as
sociated with in the kidnaping plot probably had taken the
t name of -Cramer. u ., ', .1 ' j 1
,. yA slight laugh escaped Hickman's Jips aSj the despatch from
Los Angeles was read to him. , .' :
' " "That is strange," he said. "It can't bel" Then he added !
"Perhaps the man took the pame of Cramer just to get me in
bad.''' ... ,.'-.i."..'i., h-. ! i I ,:.-',...( . . .". ,v".
) Speaking in a straight-forward manner, the young prisoner
snjd that the man he described bb Cramer-had been in trouble
before. "He said he had been in a kidnaping in Denver, and
knew how to do it. I fell in with his plan because I wanted the
money." - . - ,-v- .'. i '.' : ' ' : '.''
, When reminded that he had mentioned Juno Dunning in
his confession here yesterday,'
find her perhaps she can explain who this other man L,ramerjs.
, When especial attention was directed to Cramer's quoted
statement: "I know Hickman. I don't know why he picks on
me. Of course it is impossible for me to have been in on that
killing," Hickman said: . , ,, 1 ,
'"Yes I know Cramer." , . , , .
i Asked where he was before last Ausust. when .Cramer was
sentenced to jail, Hickman declared he was in Kansas City and
later went to Chicago. Hickman, then rambled on. telling about
his movements, how he rented a rpom at the Paradise Arms
Apartments in Chicago, on Washington Boulevard, and paid
$11 a week for the room.
PFIMni .ETON. Dee. 23.
streets of Los Angeles, with newsboys crying extras about the
kidnaping while he had with him in his car Marian Parker, 1 2,
who later was slain and dismembered, was given by William
Edward Hickman in an interview in the jail here today. ., ,,
"We were driving out .in Hollywood Friday night when
my car was stopped by a traffic light. Marian was beside me,
and, the newsboys waved their papers close beside us. Marian
seemed to be amused by this. ,
"We got along very well together. It was not my inten
tion that she should be harmed. In fact I loved her. I still love
her." ' ; '.
.PP.rt erTln his con'-
fofslon In which he Btated that he
and his confederate first planned
lo kidnap the Utile daughter or
Mr. Hovls, chief toller at the bank
at which Hickman had Dcen em
ployed. Haa a Ready Reply
Reminded that Hovls had no
child, Hickman had a ready reply.
"I saw a woman calling oa Mr.
Hovls at the bank and she had
with her a little girl. I supposed
that this girl was his child. To
prove that I waa planning this kid
naping. I will say that on the Mon
day night before I took Marian
from school, I went out to Mr.
Hovfs' house In Pasadena
and
waited thnrn In mv ear to
look
over the ground. Mr. Hovls camo
to the houte while I was there and
saw my
car there that' night. I heard
child's voice in the house. We de
cided not to tako this child be-
. L;- '
police - at Pendleton, Oregon. - .;(-
Cramer, is a prisoner at the count
Hickman said: "Well, if you can
;
A Dicture of driving thru the
cause wo believed her tco young
I was afraid she would die ot
fright."
Asked If he had admitted (
that Marian was poisoned be
fore she waa put to death, he
denied this.
"No, I never said that,"
Hickman replied. "The only
reference I made to poison or
anaesthetlo was In telling of
the drug store holdups which
were committed before -the
kidnaping. 6ha was not poi
soned." It was reported today that a
prominent Pendleton physician
bad spent an hour observing Hlck-
man Intn vAKtnrdav and that ha er-
Dro.,ed the onlnlon that the youth
la Insane. The Identity ot the phy
sician waa not divulged.
Besieged by clamorous newspa
per men and residents of Pendle
ton for opportunity to Interview
(Continued on pago 6.)