THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON. THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 22, 1927
HEBE KxriKsur
loan uay'B old classical mus
ical play will be presented at the
Elsinore theater for one night
December 27. It is exactly two
hundred .years since John Gay's
"ThT Beggar's Opera" waY first
produced, yet In Its present reriral
which lasted more than four solid
years at the Lyric theater in Loo
don, it Is far fresher In tune, more
sophisticated In Its fun, clearer in
its, frankness, more pointed la Us
satire, and far more Joyous and
enlirenlng- than the newest thing
from Broadway,
,;The Beggar's Opera" is packed
wjlh delightful songs, and their
rollicking and melodious tunes
set - the stage and the audience
stirring with life. The airs were
alf ! taken from old folk songs,
but Gay's yerses themselves are
pure music, as !'The fly that Ipa
treakle is lost in the sweets,"
"When you censure the age be
captious and sage," "How happy
could I be with Either, were t'oth
erdear charmer away," "No pow
ers on earth can e'er divide
knot that sacred love hath ty'd"
and "Oh ponder well, be not se
vere" and so on throughout the
opera. .
'FOX' SEEN IN SEATTLE.
PASSES BILL FpR $20
(lontmatd from fmgt l)
merchandise. ! ;
The proprietor placed the cur-l
rency In his j cash register ; "and
made change, without examining
the currency.! In somewhat of a
hurry, the customer left the store
terrain mat tne customer was
Hickman, the proprietor tele-
sibilfty that the Los Angeles sus
pect might attempt to bribe water-1
front employes or steamship crews
to smuggle him aboard a ressel
bound for the Orient. Shipping
men were requested to Instruct
their employes to keep a vigilant
watch for any persons resembling
the kidnaper.
Members of the police stolen
car detail received special orders
to trace promptly the ownership
DbOBM rintlln William T ITnnt
la charge of the police detectiTe!f erery abandoned car. with the
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dirlsion;
- when Kent answered the tele
phone, the haberdasher asked for
the numbers of the gold certifi
cates which the kidnaper received
last Saturday night from the mur
dered , girl's father in return for
her body.
Kent told htm:
"Well then." he exclaimed.
"Hickman has just left my store.
Hickman Identified
A squad of police, detectives
were dispatched to the haberdash
ery and confirmed the proprietor's
belief that the bill was one ob
tained by the kidnaper.
When taken to police headquar
ters, the store proprietor was eald
fco . have readily j Identified Hick
man's photograph aa the customer
the wbo bad passed the bill at the
store.
Chief W. H. Searing of the po
lice department was roused from
his bed, proceeded to headquarters
and mobilized the entire force of
600 men to search for Hickman.
Every man on the police force
was Immediately put on the trail
of the fugitive. Search was be-
,gun among hotels, apartment
houses and lodging places near
the haberdashery.
1 Word of the supposed reappear
ance of Hickman was flashed im
mediately to Los Angeles police
and towns of the Pacific north
west. Cities north of Seattle especial
ly were asked to watch for the sus
pect, who police believed, might
jbe heading fpr the Canadian bor-
!der.
Chief Searing stressed the pos-
prospect In mind that the machine
used by Hickman might be 5 thus
found.
Nearly a dozen person suspect
ed of being Hickman had been ar
rested up to midnight, but all
were released after questioning
Chase Near Rend, Claim
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21.
(AP) Chief of Detectives Her
man Cllne declared tonight that
he was confident that the man in
Seattle who tonight passed one of
the 120 gold certificates given as
a part of the ransom for Marian
Parker was William Edward Hick
man, her accused slayer. j
He pointed out that the fugitive
had had time to reach Seattle
since the last time he was defin
itely known to have been in Los
Angeles. This was Sunday morn
ing, shortly after the police had
raided the apartment house where
the accused "fox" had "been living
at the time of the kidnaping and
murder.
ine search in my opinion Is
near the end." said Cline. "The
payment of the 120 gold certifi
cate Just about clinches the case,
I think. We are hopeful that the
search in Seattle will prove suc
cessful and that the fiend will be
under arrest within a few hours.
Cllne believed that Hickman
had Journeyed to Seattle by auto
mobile or motorcycle. He said he
probably used an automobile eith
er stolen or rented in Los Angeles.
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Fiend Has Doable
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 21. (AP)
Authorities here tonight asked
Los Angeles police to attempt to
locate a former school mate of
William Edvard Hickman. The
youth was described aa a "double"
for the alleged kidnaper of Marian
Parker. He is 22 years old.
Police were told the youth left
here sereral months ago for Los
Angeles. He previously had been
a patient at a Missouri phycho-
pathlc hospital.
While it was explained that no
cnarge nad been placed against
the youth, it was pointed out that
he attended Central high school
here during three of the four
years Hickman was a sudent
there.
Hoax Flared
KAAS CITY. Dec. 21 (AP) while another raced
The life of the children of Dr.
Herbert Mants, whose stolen mo
tor .car was used by William M.
fEdward Hickman, alleged slayer
of Marian Parker in Los Angeles
has been threatened by a man pur
porting by inference to be the Los
Angeles slayer, it was rerealed by
nolle tonight.
The threat was made to Dr.
Mants aboli t 3 o'clock yesterday
in a untraced long distance call
which was heard by detectlres who
by chance were In Dr. Mants of
fice.. Dr. and Mrs. Mants were In
fear for their Urea and the Ures
of their three children, a 5 year
old son and twin daughters, 16
months old.
Dr. Mants was called to the
telephone yesterday by his office
girl who said it was a long dis
tance call.
Threat Made .
"Do you recognize my voice?"
the man asked Dr. Mantz who said
he did not.
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x m ioe leuow wno iook you
for a ride. Do you recognize my
voice now?"
Dr. Mants signalled the detec
tlres, one of whom took up the
receiver of an extension telephone
to another
telephone In an endeavor to trace
the calL
"I wouldn't be In all this trou
ble if it were not for you," the
man told Dr. Mantz.
"I'm going to get one of your
girls. You know what will hap
pen to her."
Dr. Mants engaged fhe man In
conversation for a few minutes
trying to hold him on the line
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