Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1927 — Page 3

DEC. 23, 1927.

PARTIES MOVE TO CLEAR AIR ON PRESIDENT Sentiment for Candidates Is Expected to Crystallize After Holidays. BY PAUL R, MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Definite clearing of the 1928 presidential situation in both major parties is expected soon after the Christmas holidays. The Democratic national committee will meet here Jan. 12 to select a convention city and to hold a Jackson day dinner attended by virtually all of the party’s notables. The occasion of the dinner is to be used by friends of Senator Reed of Missouri, to advance his presidential candidacy and Reed himself may deliver a speech. Governor A1 Smith of New York will be unable to attend because his State Legislature is in session, his friends here say, but they plan to reconnoiter the present Smith sentiment among the party leaders. With the first of the presidential primaries scheduled for March 13 in New Hampshire, Republican activities are expected to gain more momentum. Other primaries are to follow shortly thereafter. Candidates must file for the primaries usually about six weeks before they are held. Organization work must be done for the various entries in the States involved. WIDOW CHARGES PLOT TO OBTAIN SIB,OOO Brazil Woman Sues McNutt Company Minority Stockholders* Btl United Press BRAZIL,, Ind., Dec. 23.—A plot by minority stockholders to obtain control of the Lewis McNutt Company, Inc., was charged by the widow of the founder, Mrs. Nancy G. McNutt, in-obtaining <Cn injunction in Clay Circuit Court here. Fraud that would deprive her of SIB,OOO annually on a jobb ; nff b”ciness grossing $250,000 is alleged by Mrs. McNutt. An injunction was issued, prohibiting the stockholders, David M. Colwell, William G. McNutt and David T. Boculus of Akron, Ohio, from holding a meeting to increase the capital stock of the company from SI,OOO to $25,000. Mrs. McNutt, who has a majority interest, said the four planned to buy the additional stock issue, knowing she did not have funds to take it up, and thus get control. PARK BOARD MEMBERS MAY FIGHT RESIGNING Two Asked to Quit Are Silent On Flans for Future. Whether Adolph G. Emhardt, Democrat, and Mrs. J. D. Hoss, Republican, will resign Jan. 1, in accordance with the request of Mayor L. Ert Slack, was a matter of conjecture today at city hall. Friends of the park board members were inclined to believe they would make a fight to remain on the board through court action to test the tenure of office statute. Emsley W. Johnson and Frank Manly, board members in the Shank administration, contested their right to the posts when former Mayor John L. Duvall ousted them. They later resigned after considerable controversy. “I haven’t even thought about it and will not take it up until after Christmas,” Emhardt said. Mrs. Hoss said, “I have no comment at this time.”

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LAYS KIDNAPING TO HIS DESIRE FOR EDUCATION

By United Press PENDLETON, Ore., Dec. 23. —Edward Hickman, 19-year-old Los Angeles bank clerk, sat in the presence of three men in the city hall here last night and told his story of the kidnaping and murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker. He admitted the kidnaping, but denied, he had any part in the murder. He blamed two mysterious individuals Andrew Cramer and a girl whose name he thought was Juhe Dunning—for killing Marion. They did it because she cried too much, he said. The first he knew of Marion’s death, he contended, was when Cramer came to his apartment in Los Angeles and opened a suitcase he brought with him. It waa then Hickman saw th% mutilated body of the girl he had kidnaped, according to his confession. Desire to raise money for a college education, he said, caused him to kidnap the girl. He denied he sought revenge upon Perry Parker, the girl’s father, for prosecution of him for forgery. “I intended to get the money and then go to college and live straight the rest of my life,” he told officers. District Attorney Cyril Proebstel, City Attorney Charles Randall and Parker Brannin, newspaper man, all of endleton, heard the confession and conducted the questioning of Hickman.

Weird Story Related

It was a weird story which Hickman told in rapid-fire fashion, with no groping for words, as he sat with the officers in city hall here. It seemed strange, even to the officers, that this town, in the heart of the east Oregon cattle country, should be the place where one of the weirdest stories in criminal history should be unfolded. Here is the story Hickman told: “I ran away from home,” Hickman said. ‘‘l was working in the First National Bank and forged some checks and got paroled and went back to Kansas City with mother, and I wanted to go back to California again. “So then I got this coupe (the car in which the mangled form of the girl was returned) in Kansas City. It belonged to Dr. Mantz, I think. I came out here, but did not come direct. First, I went to Chicago, and then I went West and rented that apartment in Los Angeles at the Bellevue Arms.

Makes Living by Holdups

“I think I rented it Nov. 23, or just before Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving dny I drove down to San Diego and when I came back the next day I picked up this man and a lady. “The man said his name was Andrew Cramer, the lady, I think, her name was June Dunning. I was alone, not knowing anyone and was making my living by hold-ups and I thought if I could work with some older man we could operate to better advantage and It would not be as much risk and I probably could get away with hold-ups easier.” “We just held up drug stores and places like that. That is the reason I had these guns (referring to a pistol and a shotgun found in his car today). That pistol belongs to Cramter. “He (Cramer) wanted me to get some chloroform for him and some ether. I didn’t ask what for, so in one of our hold-ups I got out and he drove the car. “In our hold-ups he (Cramer ) would sit in the car and I would get the money and whatever he wanted and go out and he would drive away. “I really didn’t iiftend to be a crook, because you’ll find out soon enough you will get caught. But I wanted to go back to Kansas City and go to work and get enough money to go to college. Park College, near Kansas City. “And I thought if I could get enough money to go to school, and by working some during the day, I could pay the tuition, I thought if I could get SI,OOO I would start next September and no matter how I got it I would go straight from then on.

Hears Kidnaping Idea

“This man (Cramer) asked me what I thought of kidnaping some one, and I thought I would not mind doing it. “I happpened to remember Mr. Parker had a daughter, because in working at the bank this girl came in with him sometimes. I noticed especially and I remember it was his daughter and because she was his favorite daughter I thought of her. “So this man (Cramer) and I both went out and he wanted to see where Mr. Parker lived. “I went to the house to see her when she came from school and I saw her riding' around on a bicycle, but I didn’t know she had a twin sister until Thursday morning. "I parked by the house early, so I would see her leave for school and could see which school she went to. And it popped into my mind that if I went for her at the school I could get her that way.

Gets Girl at School

“There was no plan, but I had been thinking about it and it popped into my head when I saw the girl that morning. “I did not plan out the results ahead of that until I saw the girl that morning. And that afternoon, you have read in the papers how it all happened. I went and told

the teacher that her father*had been in an automobile accident. “And this other girl came over to see which one of the (Parker) girls I wanted. I said the younger one. She looked younger, but it turned out they were twins. But she didn’t question me in any way and when they asked what was her first name I didn’t remember, but I Told them I worked at the bank. “I didn’t give my real name. I forget the name I did give them. They asked me if I wanted Marion and I said that she was the one. “One of the- teachers went and got the girl and then I saw it was the same girl I Hkd seen in front of the house. “She started asking uestions about what happened and how it happened and who hit him as we left the school and I made ans * rs to all her questions. I answered everything. She got into the car and we drove away. “We talked. I really liked her and couldn't look her in the face when I told her she was kidnaped. “When I told her nothing really happened to her father, she didn’t scream or anything, but took it easily. I told her I would have to tie her hands and nose so she couldn’t get away or scream. "She said, ‘Please don’t. I'll promise not to make any noise.’

Go to Picture Show

“I didn’t tie her and we drove around all afternoon and even went to a picture show, the Rialto theater, in Alhambra, that night and she didn’t do or say a thing which would cause trouble for me. “I didn’t intend to do her any harm. Here is where the other man (Cramer) part came in. He was supposed to have the hiding placa for the girl and I was to get the money. "He wanted only S2OO or S3OO out of the $1,500. He said he didn't want much money, anyway, but seemed to like the idea of kidnaping a girl and holding her more than getting the money. “Thursday, that night after the show, I met this man and he took the girl in charge. The next time I saw her was Friday evening. Well I kept writing all those letters and had her write to her father, making it seem like she was being treated bad. “She didn’t want to stay with this man, but wanted to go with me instead, but we had to go through with our plans. Anyway, I called up her father.

Phoned Father for Money

“When I phoned her father he said he had the money and we planned a meeting on a certain street and then I called up his house from a drug store between his home and the meeting place, where I could watch him pass by. “I sat there in the car and watched for him, and as I saw him come up I noticed there were two cars driven closely together and 1 drove to one side and followed him to the meeting place. “They lived on Gramercy St., which was one block north, and these two cars stopped, and then I was absolutely certain, they were detectives and that they were going to try to trap me. “I concluded to tajce the girl back and turn her over to the man again and I wrote another letter. This man (Cramer) suggested that I was getting the time too near, but I thought that would be safer. “They were making such a big search that he was afraid they would find the girl, so Saturday he came to the apartment with this suitcase, and when he opened it up and showedme how it was I was sure surprised.”

‘Rad to Stop Her Crying’

“The police were suspicious of the place, he said, and told me she was crying and he had to stop her or something like that. He said the safest way would be to go ahead and fix it that way and for me to keep my suitcase in the car and go to this place and if police stopped me before I could get rid of it they might look at the suitcase and never open it. “I thought that was all right. He already had gone ahead, so in this letter I then wrote I told the girl’s father that if I were paid before 6 o’clock his daughter still would be alive and I didn’t find out until after 6 when he came up to the apartment what had been done. “Even if I had written this letter, I thought he would want his daughter, no matter in what condition, and I went ahead and called him up and planned the meeting place and he said all right. “And if this fellow had not killed her it would have come out all right as we had planned. I am sure I didn’t want her to die, because when she was with me she said: “ ‘I wonder what the school kids will say when I go back to school?’ “I am terribly sorry and felt like killing myself, because I sure liked her.’* Hickman denied that they had agreed on a meeting place in Los Angeles following thfe crime, and said the last time he saw Cramer was in Los Angeles just before the body was returned. “The last time I saw him was when he brought the suitcase up to the apartment and told me when I got the money to go to San Francisco as soon as I could safely get away from policemen, who were awfully suspicious. “Well, one thing did happen Sunday imoming. About 200 detectives cams up to the apartment and searched it. They came into my apartment.

Chatted With S!e.uths

“It is interesting the way I sang played the phonograph and then the detectives came in and looked around and didn’t express

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any suspicion of me at all. I went out into the hallway and talked to seven or eight of the best detectives in Los Angeles and asked them if there was anything I could do to help. They said there was nothing and after searching my place they left.” “What parts of the girl did Cramer have in the suitcase when he came up to the apartment?” Hickman was asked. “She was cut right across the middle of the body and her arms were fixed up,” he replied, “Cramer had her dress on her and a little sweater thrown on her face and of course she was dead. But the way the mouth was set it didn’t look very death-like. He had sewn her eyelids open with some threads fixed to her eyebrows. I guess the other parts of the body were thrown away where they were found."

Opened Suitcase, Grinned

“He opened the suitcase so you might see what he had there?” "Yes, sir.” “Where were you when he did that?” “Thdt was in the apartment.” “What did you say when you saw that?" “I let out a yell of surprise and wanted to know why he did a thing like that. It was quite a shock to me, because he was not supposed to bring her up to the apartment. “When he brought the suitcase in, I wanted to know where the girl was. He said, ‘Wait a minute,’ and sort of grinned and then set the suitcase down and opened it. I have already told you what I saw and everything.” Air Ace Gives Children Planes NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—1n the guise of Santa Claus, Clarence D. Chamberlin, trans-Atlantic pilot, distributed toy airplanes among three hundred children in a hospital here. Plane Lands on Skiis Without Snow CURTISS FIELD, N. Y., Dec. 23. —With a pair of skiis as landing gear, a pilot from Quebec made a safe landing here, even though there was no snow on the ground.

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