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WEATHER Partly c!|udy Friday. Saturday ln creastng cloudiness no change la temporal ure. ' « ***» VOLUME SIX; NUMBER 257 HICKMAN IS TAKEN IN OREGON Confesses Kidnaping Little Girl But Says. i Did Not Murder Her in Confession to Associated Press Correspondent He Insists Man By Name of Cramer Killed And Mutilated 12-Year-Old Marian Parker DID NOT OFFER AW RESISTANCE WHEN OFFICERS STOPPED HIM >Q 9 ' Had Sawed-Off Shot Gun Beside Him As He Sped, Along In Car Which Had Been Stolen in Los Angeles; Talked Wildly and Incoherently PENDLETON, Ore., Dec. 22.—(AP)—William Edward Hick man, youthful fugitive wanted M th« kidnapper and slayer of Marian Parker 12 year flifcl Los Angeles girl, was captured at Echo, Oregon, this afternoon. Hickman, trailed closely by reports of his progress from Se attle, Washington, where he had passed one of the S2O billu’he took from the girl’s father, was found by two Pendleton ofrrcers on the, Old Oregon trail as he sped in a car which he had stolen at Los Angeles. He was taken without resistance, a sawed-off shot gun was found in the car beside him. He confessed that he wanted the money obtained in the kidnapping to go to college. Reports telling of Hickman’s flight east on the Columbia river highway from Portland where he was seen early today ap praised officers of his approach to this section.- (J Chief of police Tom Gurdanc and State officer Buck Lieuallen, saw a big green car approaching and stopped at a curve in the highway lo watch its approach." The car answered the descrip tion of the one stolen by Hickman. * They hailed the driver. The car did not stop, and tbs officers gaVe chase, drawing up alongside, covering the driver and cau tioning him to atop. Hickman was at once apprehended and a Search revealed the bills taken from the girl's father. Officers roped off ah*area around the jail. The crowd mill ing about to get a glimpse of (he prisoner, was orderly re strained. * Hickman tonight confessed telling a broken stoi*y of the kidnapping. At the time he endeavored desperately to shift the blame for the mutilation of the girl upon the shoulders of his pardner, a man he named as “Andrew Cramer’’. Hickman’s story, told soon after his capture to an Associated Press correspondent was broken and incoherent. He told how he had planned the kidnapping of the girl in order to raise money to attend college. He said he had not been,cruel to her and that she was murdered and dismembered by Andrew Cramer, an ac complice. He related how he had treated the child gently and had become friendly with her and how he had taken her to a motion picture show the night before she was slain. He quoted the girl as saying “l wonder what the school kids Bill say when Igo back. They will want to know what I did and everything.’’ Hickman was questioned concerning his pardner in the crime. He said "Cramer did not stay in the same apartment with me I met him only by appointment. I did the kidnapping and Cram er muidered the girl without my knowledge.’’ MRS. LINDBERGH REACHES MEXICO jjfc Crowds Rush Onto Field and Twice Prevent Planes From Making Landing MEXICO CITY. Dec. 2*—(JP) -The first woman to fir from tbe I’nlted States to Mexico, mother of the first man to fly from New York ta Parla, had only one moment of fear op a 2,000 mile trip from Detroit. The moment was when Mrs. Erange line Lindbergh and her famous son met. The fear was not herself nor for her non. but fpr the eager spectators rushed N't ore the downroming to welcome Lindbergh and his mother. Without the police control ■ deemed necessary when Lindbergh arrived at Val Buena, two thousand persons gsth<red to witness Mrs. Lindbergh's arrival and twice forced 'her son back Into the sir In order To rrotr damtuta ta Urn crowd or to the Trtarrnr: * ~—- Mrs. Lindbergh landed at 3:44 p. U. Col. Lindbergh had scone. out to meet her and eecort her to the field When IJodbergh files to Nicaragua from Honduras on hJs Central Am erican tour, he will be advised to flv high or make a detour in order to avoid any possibility of outlaws tak ing a shot at hln plane. This advice was given since it was thought that the followers of the rebel l<ader might take a shot at any plane Aa aoon as the Colonel-toads the capital of Honduraa mounted national guardsmen will play Paul Reveres and advise tbe Inhabitant* that CoL * mwa J JU i£u. THE GOLDSBORO NEWS HEAD IN THE MORNING WHILE BONDS ARE FRESH—READ BY BUYERS BEFORE THEY BUY. NIDDONg HATH GOVERNMENT MI ST CLOiHJ UP ACCUSATIONS o WASHINGTON. Dec. 22—</P)—Af ter counsel In the rase had agreed to combine the contempt and Intimida tion charges In the oil jury tampering cane, Justice Blddons todSy decided thatxthe first government must clear up the accusations that It had Intlml dated'T»li nesses durlug the hearings SSOO in Donations Received In Santa Club Membership The destitute and poor of Waybe county are this tear being better pro v’ded for than ever before aa the - re sult of the Wayne OountySanta Claus club organised by The“tfiws In coop eration with R. 11. Edwards, county superintendent of welfare. Those be coming members of the Santa Claus club donated a total I144.&0 In. cash and provided for the entire needs 14 t families. In addition to these (CBS, a great quantity "of food and clothe* were distributed. Thf tidal value of food and clothes given, plus the cash donations, would reactp |6OO "The response to the appeal has Itcen wonderful", said said Mrs. E. C. Ttowcll, secretary to Mr. Edwards, "nnd we want to thank everybody who has taken part The New* plan has assured more poor families of the county being properly cared for this | Christmas season than ever before.” The Kuhdajf school classes and the Individuals who agroed to take care of different families went about tbtlr ta*k In a methodical The Bother In each family was HOLD-UP CUMAXES CLINTON ROBBERIES 5' # «* - - * SLIT RESULTS FROM ACCIDENT | Ask $20,000 From Bus Com pany Who Was Killed In Accident Thomas J. I'otcr, administrator of the eststb ol Cora May Mitchell, asks damage* of 120,*0# against tb* Dial* Tranait Company of Wilming ton. In complaint filed yesterday In ifie office of Clerk of Court J. 11. ’Hooka. J On the night of September 29 about 6:30 Mrs. Mitchell, waa rtdlns with her husband Id a wagon on highway 40. several mile* south of the city. The wagop, the camplalnt states, was operated In accordance with all atate laws, waa on the extreme right of the road with right wheel* off the' shonldcr and on the dirt part of the highway. Despite these precaution# alleges the complaint, the Dixlo Transit bu» struck the wagon knocked Mrs. Mitchell, her husband and three infant children to the highway. Btr*. Mitchell was thrown with sdeh force against the pavement that she suf fered a fractured skull and this earn ed her death in a local hospital Tsiir week* later, says the complaint. The wagon was demonllshod In the acci dent. n <> Careless nee* ami tUtcUgence upon the part Os the driver of the hue Is (alleged as the cause of the accident and It I a upon this premise that the damage of 630,000 is asked. \•■ - , FRENCH NET HTARS HERE NEW YORK, Dec. 22—</P)— The three B's of the French tennis world —Jacques Drugnon, Jean Dorotra and Christian Doussns —are here They arrived yesterday from Rio Janeiro after matches In Chile, Uru guay, Argentina and Ilrncel. Representing the racing club of Paris they vyjll play a team of the Penn A. C. In Philadelphia Friday and a aeries of matches In Chicago Saturday. - THE “HUMAN" OSTRICH . <■ DIED AFTER OPEMVTION NEW ORLEANS, Dec SIB- Ley Rarjtes, 61, -Human Ostrich” died today after an operation In which a cigar box full of bolts, car peta, rasor blades, Washers and nails waa removed from his stmoach. For 27 years hs°kwallowed various artlcleg-of hardware as a aide attrac-, lion In clrcusss and Two weeks ago he beegm# affTfrted with the “stomach aclic" and went to a loc«l hospital wbera an operation was performed. brought to the city and In company with a class representative visiting stores and complete outlita (or all member* of the family were secured. "The merchants of G(4}sboro were Tt*ry*silce too,” said Mrs. Howell, "In (•lihost every case, they allowed the purchases to go at cost when it had heek explained that It was la' coop eration with the Santa Claus club.'' TSiTough yesterday afternoon all the neatly families had been sup plied "only this remains,” said Mrs. Howell, pointing to one huge pile of purchases, to two dolls, and a tfa ftorn. and to a quantity oT~bed cloth es fcllod on the desk in Mr. Edwards office Laat year Sheriff Bob. alons and unaided, played Banta to the folks of the county that he plays godfather to in hta as welfare superinten dent. It was about daybreak before he got around 00-hla Santa Claus trip Christmas night and he yesterday ex pressed himself as highly pleated with the cooperation shown this year. GOLDSBORO, N. C- FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1927 Capture Sidelights KANSAS (ITT, ML tg—(AP) —Mrs. Era lllrkawn, collapsed here this n/temoen when phoned her that her sen had bed} captor, ed. A 'W “It can’t be truef* she sobbed -My place Is by him." she added. “f enljr hope Hint he qti» a square deni,", she said. a DETECTIVE CHIEF ROTED IDS ANGELES, Dec. IS—(AP) Herman Cline, chief (M deter* the* nlmort collapsed when leld Hlckmnn was captured. Cline trembled with emotion as he got the details es hew lUckmaa had confessed 1 and ad mitted his Identity. ' *«. As the news ofytbe capture passed outward from the press, the city was attended by an air almost of celebration. Thousands upon thousands rushed newsboys on Ibe corner for extra editions. N NO IIARHIH HOTEL NAY FitINCIBCO, Dec. tS - (AP)— InreHtlgatloa* as to the Hotel Harris In this city revealed no Araee of Andrew Cramer, nam ed by Hlckmnn a* an accomplice ~ la the murder of Marina Park er. Il'cknaa laid police la fondle t«# seas to meet CrKwer at the Hotel Harris here, bat there Is v no Hotel Hafri* here or In Oak laad. The police are now search, lag California for Ihe man named Cramer. FATHER WOULD RATHER BE DEAD . EL PASO, Dec. **~(AP)— Thomas Hickman, father es the accused slayer broke down and >- wept w kea he admßted be was the father es the youth. “I would rather be dead than— and la Hell a thousand time* than lo think a child of mine w-onld commit speh an aln>cloas crime," he saM. “I lose my child a* mark as anyone coaid lote a son, bat I want to see Justice done, even thought It strikes at the heart of my family. My family has never « had a slain on IL" STrDT E iRI.Y AMERICAN LIFE AND TIMES FROM LIBRARY IN CLEVELAND fT.EVEI.AND. Dec.. 22—Cleveland is a mttsca for the study Os early American life and times. Few think of It a* such. But -Caroline Robbins Os London, England, has made the trip acroas the Atlantic In material which can 6nly ho found in this efty. Bhe Is here collecting materlaPj}fo£ a thesis on the time when {be New England settlers began TlTUieir writing and thought to differentiate from the English traditions, and to develop A-cultur* dlstipctly their own EARLY ■■ Ipd"// ONLY 3 ~ 2 MAY NOT RAISE SUB TILL SPRING If Weather 1m Favorable Might Get Wreck Up in Week But ' Thin Hardly Expected PROVINCKTOWN. yisss.. Dec. 22 —(TP)—The second submarine ’ B-4, .which Iteg In 17 fathoms of w^ter v oft this harbor may not be raised until text spring. Officers of the fleet of naval vessels assembled her* ‘to sal vage tba vessel made this fact do- Jflnltely known tonight. ! Rear Admiral B.ninby, directing salvage operations, said the work would t:o on while weather condition* remained favorable, but aald they would b% suspended as soon aa win ter weatbor set tn for certain. ’ It was pointed out by several offi cers lifter a conference (hat If the extraordinary weather of the past two day# continued the could be salvaged within a week. The navy department the salvaging should be done aa soon a* possible, It was said "Ibis being interpreted as meaning as soon as the work could be done Without en dangering the lives of the divers.";, This as much as tha officers and men on the aubmarine would admit It would be foolhardy to risk the live* of divers to recover the bodies of the crew, It was said. —..... -j. . .. , V i*’ INSANE (RIPPLE WENT ON RAMPAGE BRUNSWICK, Maine. Dec. 22— (Jf) —Raymond Petit, 23-year-old Insane' cripple, who shot and wounded his Isthor and mother here last night, was captured today but not until as. ter he had killed Mrs. M. E. White, 7*, In her home at Topshau. and lad been clUcully wounded by of ficers. QUEEN ELIZABETH Ig MUNICH* itND ARTIHT lIUtTHHELH. Dec. 22—Queen Kits*- Ikdh of Belgium, Is known through out the world for her heroic work a* a nurse during tb* War. Few peo ple, perhapa realise that aha la an excellent musician anffl very fond of literalkre and the.plastic arta. Definite Word Os Cement Factory NEW BERN, Dec. 22—{£*) —lt was anOuuced hero today that a 13,000,000 crement ptajp would be erected by the Co. before September I, 132 g. This 1* the culminating announcement fol lowing long plana for the company her l “Fue Killed Man” Says LaGrange Man to Deputy Henry Farmer. LaGrango man, went free under iffy bond yesterday pending a hearing for alleged us lault upon Denning, another La* Orange man. t Farmer went direct from the jail to a local * tore to parchaie himself a hat. to take the place of the one he lost after running Into a creek after shooting Dennings several nights' ago. Then he waa going home to *p«nd Christmas with hi* folks. According to the story told bx De puty J. A. Whitley, both Denntng and Farmer had been enjoying something too much of ('hrlstma* spirits on one of thp cold ntghte of this week. They fell c.utT e*ld Whitley. Farmer pulled Ida p *t*jl and fired. Then ran until be etumbled Into a creek. The shock of the Icy cold ’water agal.net his body, served to further convince him that he must hare kill* id a man. Ile'Ytoundered out of the creek, his clolhss (reeslng aa ha ran. npd atum* Med-to the nearest tight. It burned la the home of Deputy Whitley. . • •“May I asked Fanner. TO DECIDE ON COLLEGE CASE a ■— —1 Whether Or Not Goldsboro Wants IMneland Junior Col lege la Object Meeting Whether or not Goldsboro shall ac cept the proposition mad* to move Plneland Junior Collage to the city will be definitely decided at a meeting to be held In the Chamber of Com nverce rooms next Wednesday morn ing at II o’clock. It was announced yesterday, jt has been learned that efforts have been b**nn by several |>V towns and fettles la Baste. North Carolina t o»«. ure the school Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Jones, co-presi dents of the Instttntion, will ho pro sent st the Wednesday meeting to antwpr any questions. 0- C. Rcryall, ctislrman of thy chamber or cornmerce committee which has directed Inree tlgation of the matter, will preside at the meeting, v Plnoiand could he brought to Goldsboro If the .city would donate a site and erect building* worth |IOO -for housing the college, under the proposition mad* by tb* Ptpaland ad dVluistTatlon. In return the present Plneland plant at Ralemhnrg would be deeded to tb* directors of tho school upon Its romovai to Goldsboro. JURY EFFORT" * ISA FAILURE Judge Rule* Remus Must Spend Christmas In Jail And Until Sanity Test CINCINNATI. 0„ p*c. tervenllon In behalf'of .Georg* He mns. by tb* Jury which round him to be insane at the time he killed his wife, Imogens, failed today and.ap parently removed the last possibility of Remus gettlug Ipa freedom for Christmas from the jail whtr* bO awaits his probate conrt sanity hear ing. The Juror# petition said the Jury "sought to hava the defendant return ed to bis mother and family by Christmas." It recited that the Jury, In returning ta verdict of "not guilty" of murder >n the sol* ground of Inaanlty “did so" vfter a careftil consideration of the facts and that Jt was a fair and conscientious cgpresslon of the ten men and two, Wfbmen on the Jury. Ramus was denied bond yesterday, probate Judge Wm. Loaders aald ‘Tmcause the Jury found Remus (0 be Insane at the time of the slaying and It waa the legal presumption that he shall be adjudged Insane until he Is preseht mental condition Is estab lished.” \ T here kflled a man, he continued** and related that ha had shot John Denning five times. Investigation of his pistol showed only three empty chambers In It. “When be BMf down before the heater," said Ms Whitley, “hie cloth es steamed IlkjA kettle. Taper money In one oL-Uft pockets had freten. aa g£3T *» ’ TMMPVee" 'emelWaw c«rt*fo; 4 Jew mete set net as eeialda rod he would have been down and might have died from the cold.** Fpon seeking the truth.pf the state ment that Denning bag, been shot, <«lr. Whitley learned that though wounded, the wound was of a very superficial nature. Only one of the three shots fired had taken effect, in flicting a flesh wound In the groin. GOES TO WEST POl** *1 RALEIGH. Dec. 21-oF>—Aa high ran In the preliminary examinations. Charles Marvin Iseley. of Greensboro waa recommended by Gov. Mcphsm today to t»ke the entrance exdmlna- Hone, Jfi the United States military ' academy, at W'eat Point in March. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICK FIVB CBftß t . * *.«U Man Robbed At Pistol Point . In Ten Days Have Ben FN Bucccaafd and Fin Uaaae* ceaafal Tkaft AtUmpia A i«rUa of robberlea In CllnUm ware cllmaxad early Wednesday cra ning whan two negro*# held up and * robbed C. B. Brown. CUatoa tnaeraoce man of |tdr The hold-up took yUoe on a prlacap residents! street In tk# bampaon town, adrtoee reaching kero >ald yaaterday, and wae anooaaj>gb rd at the point of a plaUl ; Two negroes aooootod the laaavakba man a* he wae walking along the at reel. in * - • Got change for n dollar," nan df 'them naked htan. -j The iDßurnnae man ran a hand M|p hi* pocket and an he did an ana ft the negroea tloorlabed a pistol *‘Ol»e na yonr money," wag the command. The coaaaaaad wna dbdpkd tor the point of a ptotol wna paMM close, and tU calibre eegpalSß to yawn aa huge is the Qrnnd Omnm of the Colorado. • Advice# received hart yaatardar were that the aagpooa ware sUA at liberty. aa many 'V proved unauoceaafnl. Atevehaate <4 the tojft-wra atlrred to a hlftferflUb *T<l many of them have sipWdki ihalr deaire for bettor protection Ann fuutre entrancea Into their etßNa, Doing tbetr work before tail Might, robber# Tuegday evening mala ana* ceaaful entrancea Into tbe OWCaa *af the J, it. Wateon 0& on Vanoo straw. The Weteon atore Ip minna a safrtld arable aum la ckaaga that waa left In the cagk draw#re, estimated at cbont |M and alaa articles taken from the coaatera In the etor* whOa tha firm# pf C.F. Collins, a offered Ma biggest loat la tbe breaktng at tarn large plate-glass windows la Aa front of the store. This store waa robbed of a anlt of clothes and eOV erel other artlelaa ad weartag appar el. which war# displayed la tha beat window. ' ---~ ; Tha culprltp, whose Id entity is not known aa yet, ere believed whea wak ing an entrant . Into the Waisen ■tore to have left a motor nwaWß tk an automobUa need by them Whan they broke tbe glass In the dan* to prevent detection. en tered tbe store through tha Ma broken In the glass, a general fan •aching of the cash drawers teak place and all tka ckaaga left there waa taken, together with other ST* iktlee, the amount of w filch kaa aot barn determined. Artlelaa taken from, the Oolllaa * atorc wars those that wort on dlsplay In the front window and Inelodad a suit of clothes and other apparel. The two large windows warn almost in ti rely demolished. Further lose waa probably ppavcrijted whea aa dfker approached tha ecene of tfia robbery and fired several shots at the robbers, who n<id with such spaed aa to aWke , H Impoeeihle for tbe officer to tfith* tify him. None of the shots are thought to have hit tha target. A shoe, the mate to another la thPFffe* daw of this store was toond. pad needay, morning and It is thotAfifiJMl , tbe person olr paiwaM I raeHMj lota tire atom tost It In Aa hasty votreaiii ON TOKIB WAT . lA VAZ, Bolivia, Doc. M.-0A— Dieudonn* Coates and Joseph Labrl wer* about 1.100 miles closer to New York today, haring reached here from SanUaffo, Chile, after U hoaga Wit 22 minutes of non-*tof> dying * BtYIBITTfT PBOCIMDMB RALEian, Dm. 22—(P)—(arolan tnry proceedings. In bankruptcy ware Instituted In the 1 local Vhdmnl Onfrt Thursday by petitioning cradkabj - agglnat J. H. Hallow, merehngt at Goldsboro. Tha petitkme soar that Hallow's debts were In escape g| f»bi. , " _ . .
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