23 Dec 1927
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1927
Page
1
Arthur Brisbane argues about crime and the idea of sterilization as a tool to curb criminals and feeble-minded individuals. He cites the Virginia sterilization case, notes historic harsh punishments, and suggests careful study of science as a humane, preventative measure.
Tonight and Saturday partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Highs and lows include 39 and 25 degrees with readings from 7 am to 1 pm. Griggs ambulance contact 4311.
William Edward Hickman confessed kidnapping Marian Parker in Los Angeles. His separated parents, three brothers, and a 17 year old sister in Kansas City react with shock and plead for justice, while his father recalls a distant family history and expresses heartbreak.
Edward Hickman, awaiting extradition to Los Angeles on kidnapping and murdering Marion Parker charges, sobs as he recalls the abduction and mutilated body. He pleads with his mother not to worry and clutches a minister’s pink pamphlet while officials prepare extradition papers.
Three men and one woman, all from Columbus, were killed when their car was struck by a Big Four passenger train at Montarose crossing near Columbus today.
Virtually every store in Amarillo will be closed on Monday December 26 following Christmas observance. R O Walkup manager of the Business Men's Association notes the post holiday closure tradition when a holiday falls on a Saturday. For time contact Nation Drug 4522 and Potter Co Lumber Co advertises glass cloth.
Amarillo police arrest five suspects after a robbery and gun battle in the Flats area. Officers say Roy Barnhille and Riley Patton led the raid on Alford Tate’s home, taking $62 and wounding Tate. Patton allegedly fired at Officer White, who gave chase as the scene unfolded.
Sapulpa police report Velva Hilton, wife of Ray Terrell, provided 200 for Ray Harmon funeral costs after his death in a Wildorado store robbery attempt. Harmon, a jailed ex gang leader, was killed by a night watchman. The case ties to a robbery gang. Gus Johnson injured remains jailed.
Salvage teams on the Falcon report air tests in the torpedo room of the sunken S-4 show pure air with carbon dioxide at only 0.5 percent. Divers tunnel under the bow through the night as Captain Ernest F. King says good progress. The plan remains to pass a rope under the bow before winter storms suspend operations.
Two young men and a girl borrowed Bellevue hospital's hearse for an early morning suburb ride. The driver left to fetch a body and returned to find it missing. Hours later the derelict hearse was found abandoned in Queens with the trio seen leaving. Ambulance services were contacted.
Nicholas V Trocter and Ellery Roberts face murder charges in the killing of Leo J Ledeg Amarillo druggist on September 10. The pair, already in Leavenworth for interstate auto theft, were named by Mildred Stringer who said one suspect fired as the store resisted robbery. Three other men, Jack Davis Clayota Tontz and Earl McGrew, were previously indicted in the same case.
Two unidentified men believed Mexican were killed and a third wounded as officers repelled an attempted robbery at Home National bank in Stanton twenty miles east of Midland. The old Christian church building in Stanton burned during the incident, origin unknown. CISCO robbers hold up First National Park injuring police chief G. K. Bedford. details on numbers and loot not disclosed.
The commerce department plans to light the Great Lakes Gulf Airway in 1928. Beacons will extend the Kansas City Chicago route to Dallas and Galveston, enabling mail planes to fly Chicago to the gulf without stops. Weather reports by radio for in air flights are another planned improvement.
William Hickman, 19, infamous for the Marian Parker case in Los Angeles, is in custody in Pendleton Oregon after a weeklong manhunt. He confessed to part of the crime and implicated a supposed accomplice Andrew Cramer. Authorities and the public await further details as the case unfolds.
Kansas City December 28 Edward Hickman the confessed Marian Parker kidnapper may use hereditary insanity as a defense after neighbors testified that Mrs Hickman once was an inmate of an insane asylum. The defense rests on family mental illness links exposed in court today.
Charles A Lindbergh and his mother Mrs Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh planned a quiet Christmas in Mexico City after his historic New York to Paris flight. A dinner at the American embassy with staff and a luncheon by Ambassador Dwight Morrow honored Mrs Lindbergh and her son.
United Press reports that California acted swiftly and secretly on December 2 to save Edward Hickman, the confessed kidnapper of 12 year old Marion Parker, from the hangman. The article notes urgent steps by state authorities and a dramatic day in Los Angeles as events unfolded.
Rewards totaling over 50000 and possibly up to 100000 were raised by popular subscription including radio stations for the arrest of Edward Hickman dead or alive. Belief held that the money would be divided into three equal shares for George Willoughby of Seattle and two Oregon officers who located Hickman in the northwest.
The Geles County grand jury indicted Hickman last night on charges of kidnapping and murdering a girl. Detective Lieutenants Harris and
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