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using New, loik; 36 E. backer lnve. i mesgo. mt cirrnittiaa jeoors of, The "TbV AViiclatedi'Vei" is exclusively t.i the use for repnblicstioa of 2H news dispatches credited ta it or not thrt ae credited ia this paper and alas he lval news pAlifbedJierejis THK MK.XH A 0( I MEXTS. Four I'niled Stat Senators whose tiaiiie were mentioned in what puports be official Mexican document pub lih.1 in tlu lloarst newspapers Iwve prompt I denied, that tiny were recipients of any of tli SI.

et aside by the Mexican, government for paym'Tit I heat. Tbe Senator mentioned were IWali. I Follette. Xorris and lleflin, 1V will lielicve I hat tfp men were I'roaf hed. niiieh les accepted the in.uiej, Itorali.

Follette and Norris an known in litis twin try a iiro.es stvt. hi viine even' us radimls. but their h'n t.v lias never been iietiimed or Iefliii. the only pemorrat men rumM. is of a far different type than tii, oilier three menfionivi, and whether wiir.

guilty or not would not chanje luiiiiy glide's opinion of hint. Tie fjet that tliew nien received no tn iic, or were inn even informed that turner had been appropriated for their lri.t"it. 'doe not materially change the stii'u of the document thenmelres nor uf deviltry in endeavoring to disturb tliin'uatioii. A few metropolitan newspapers condemn publication of ihe documents, Myuu that while Lindberg and Ambas M.irrow are doinjr ererythinf they ran 'promote friendship between the, tw natioiM. Hearst is stirring up trrtu'ul.

It nevertheless, important that ili status of (lie dm'Uinents be ea t.a!iir.ieJ. F.ilhcr they re genuine or tVy aro forgeries. If genuine little con ftiicnc an be placed in the present Mst officials none in fact If forg Tie their publication raa do no damage. the documenU referred to the mis iIvrf mm mt I 11 I IV IrM to jb The Number Two (Coatlaaed from fags Twa) visiting Mr. and Mrs.

H. E. Helms and family of Warren street. 1 H. A.

Rudig of this city wait a business caller in Columbia City Tuesday. Gordon Waecbter, son Mr. and Mrs. George Waechter of Freedom street underwent a tonsil operation TWniay Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph 9over and family bav returned to their home ia St Johns, after visiting their daughter, Miss Audrey Hoover in this dty. Miss Mary, Cutshall apd J. O. Mais bury spent Christmas in Somerset, visiting, at the home of the farter's parents. Mrs.

Jacob V. Totmg, Mm, Wnllaca Fields and Mr. H. K. Herrs spent Tuesday ereaing in Wabash attending a high school alumni banquet tncra.

Thoma Quimi and Harold 8mitk will return to Indianapolis Thursday after viaiting friends Ind relatives nere. Mim Anna' lieth Pehler of Marion, Ohio arrived in tbis city meoaay ro ttsk relatives the remainder of Hie week. Mr. and Mrs. Heiahel WeV have returned to Youngstown, Ohio, after spend ing Chrtstmas visiting relatives nere, and Mrs.

Fred Welker and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Olney Krieg of Fort Wayne spent Monday in this ci visiting at the Vincent Welker home. )dward McXally of Kenton, Ohio Ink Story OA the dressing table, not far from the murdered body of Margaret Odell, lay the jewel case. It was twisted out of shape by the terrific leverage that had, been necessary to force it, and beside it lay a brass handled poker.

Vance had glanced but casually at the different objects in the rdoms, but when he came to the dressing table he paused abruptly. Taking out his monocle, he adjusted it carefully and leaned over the broken jewel case. "This steel case," he said, "was never torn open by that wholly inadequate iron' poker." i Heath nodded his head approvingly. "So you, too, noticed thafrdid' And 'you're dead right That poker might have twisted the Box a little but it never snapped the lock." He turned to Inspector Moran. vf! owe Wednesday, Dec.

28, 1927 IA(IE FOUR THE HUNTINGTON PRESS THE HUNTINGTON PRESS issued by the INTON Pi ni ISIIINO CO, "Tisteril'as second class matter.T'eb. raar) 12. 1912, the poatofhee at Hunt laxtMi. under the Act March 3, "Br M. Il.

OfDtSBT Board of Directors a A. J. WIWIELM at. OKMSBV AND II. DBMSBT tvJByine XMci'.

400 Contributions published bear full algnstsr' of auibor. AH commuacationa should be tjpewrttfn. Anonymou. com SUBICSti'M Will DCl orooi" aaaZ jitr to The Hantiatgon Prf. Huntingten.

lad. OF SlBSCBiFTiON with Suo.lay, 4 00 per year By Cunt la Huntngtoe: Daily (with Sunday). IV 'week Sunday, 5c. fiCIlkKRER, INC "Natioia: Adrer fii FlltS AVaae lienresfniniT, Nicarsgaa revolution. If the rights of this country were not being jeopardised in that country, then why did this country intervene? Wbt business had we in internal strife in Nicaragua? Erery effort should be made to establish the Authenticity of the published documents.

It is difficult task, but one that the government should under take. the Christmas holidays in Hunt lington visit iiiR relatives and friends. John Burtaier and Frank Welcn bare returned to this city after spending tks Chiistmas bolidays visiling relative in Auburn, Ind. Floyd Stevens of Bremen, Ind, spent Tuesday morning in Huntington on business. Jesse Holton of Monroe, Mich, has ar rived city to reside.

Miss Maxine Steele returned to her home in Robinson, Monday after spending several days hi Huntington. Mr. andi Mrs. Jack Grace bave returned to Chicago after visiting at the Edward Zigerli home on West Park drive, over Christmas. Ruesell Newell bas returned to In dianapolis after visiting bis parents Mr.

and Mrs. W. Newell of College ave nue. Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Higley and family will leave Thursday for Portsmouth, Ohio where they wil spend several weeks visiting the formers parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Higley.

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Barger rod family of Racine, are spending aev Hickman's Confession Made' Public by. Prosecutor Keyes LOS ANGELES, Calif Dec.

27 (A. "He put a blanket over her head and they Asa Keyes, proSecnting attorney of Los Angeles county', issued the follow ing statement concernlna; the laUst conJ morning fession of WiUiam Kdwara uicaman, i slayer of Marian Parker: "Tbis boy made, a fiiH rand. complete statement of prartieall all phases of this six months i gr.hv.firjt thonght of kidnapping a child to money to take a course in college. Be stole a car in Kansas Citjf and drove to Los Angeles. 7 There he rented an apartment on Nereajher 23.

He looked round and first had ta nxiwl kidnapping another ckUd. "This one peered toe yoaa. and then he thought of the chJM'oTP rrrr It; nmr. ua uumni au uuiiif of Parker, he went oet 'to Parker's Kooae to nee hiss come home. 0" Dtcenriwr 14 he'Veal earlr the moraLng tad saw.

the two Parker cftklrea" leaW boeae for school. Bkkauar then delated the weU inowa details of he kidnappinf. After putting the giH in has drov oat headed for GWaJe, and seauped at a side street He toW thegiri she wan being Plsiaf beaad and gagaed her. She begged him not ta and he refrained hot he showed her a piatnL He then went la Pasadena and sent the finst telegram ta the father. He took the chfld to Med ana and assured her he would not harm her.

JThey came back and went ta the Rinlto theater, where they say a pie tnrei ''Fignxea Don't Lie." They were ont of the show at 10 o'clock and drove to the Bellevne Arms apartments. They sat under a tree for thirty minutes. "Then he told her to follow kint ini, which she did. He asked her whether she wanted to deep bed or on'' couch went to sleep, awakening about 7 A. He wrote a letter to Parker on Friday j.uv (in Biav wiuis icLLcr.

uv Kit the cfaQd in an apartment and went down and mailed the letters, He. tied her hands and feet to a chair. Friday morning he prepared breakfast, but, Marian did not eat Alter, breakfast he fcalkef to her and aaid she conld write a letter to her father. She was crying bat stopped when he told her she could write the letter. He went downtown to get and nailed a special delivery letter.

When he retaraed with the Dspers, she saw her pktarea and 'enjoyed seeing thesn. Ha took her for a. ride on Triday for about seventy adlea and returned aboat Latter fa GarTa Warda, "Before retarakng to the apartaiaat ho kaanrkt several papers for hfmriaa ta read. Ho thea relaked waiting for. Parker's ear land seeing two police earn and driving away withoat overfang the girL Theii they went th Hirkmaa'a ajsartrnent.

Te girl aobbed a litflo heeanse she enald aot go homo that night That night she slept the same as the previous night, and woke us at 7:30 A. M. He told her to write to her1 father and shS wrote a letter la her owa words very willing' ly. He told her that aha would have to make her eoadltloa appear really, worse thaa it wan. 1 "He promised her Oat if her father did not pay the mosey ho would let her go borne.

He thea wrote the, third note. He pat her nots ia the ansae envelope and west downtown to get aohoe papers, saying he would be back ia half an hoar. He tied her, blindfolding She told him to harry back. At this flaae an intention to murder her gripped him. "Ha got a roQiatg pin, bat did not and she decided to sleep on the eoaeawtstriko her with' Then he took the era! days in this city visiting Mr; and Mrs, John Shoemaker of Sooth Lafoan taine street Mr.

and Kra. Barger leave Saturday morning for CUeaan where they will visit at the Nell Shoe maker home over Now Xeara. Miss Hasel Myers ot Graenrille, Ohio is spending a week in this city Tiatdng at the Boy Cosed home on Woodlawn ave Dale BaHle of OrriQa; Ohio, ia spend ing several days with Mr; and Mrs. Carl Battle of Bast Franklin street Mr. apd Mrs.

F. Wood spent Christmaa visiting friends lea Marion and Wabash, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Parker and fam ily spent Christinas visiting relatives at Saver Lake, Ind. Miss Mary Metager spent Tuesday ia Chicago transacting business.

Mr. and Mrs. Carroll G. Densey of Yoongatown, Ohio, spent Tuesday evening in this city visiting at the homo of Mr. and Mrs.

H. H. Brown on Grant street. Both families will leave today oa a motor trip to, PtaJarilla, IoL, where they wm visit at the hone of Mr. end Mrs.

J. H. Deaney. Harare Lows of Lafayette, Ind, is spending several days in this city visit ing Harold Lows of Guilford street. Mr.

and Mrs. H. EL Brown and family spent Christmas visiting at the home of the former's parents, Mz. and Mrs. H.

S. Brown of Angola, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. CL W.

Dower wine were die guests of relatives in Nohlesville, Ind. over Chrhamaa, Csayton 'Sckwalm, ot Detroit, spent Taesday in this city visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Frsdferick Jones were callers la Mtmcia, Ind, ovtr the Christmas hokLays.

Miss Miriam Gould ot La Sells, TIL is spending several days hi the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Trovtnger of. Poplar street I 1 diah towel and strangled her with it." statement then referred to details of Hickman's story as announced at San Jose, Cal. Pocket Knife Used.

"Hickman knotted the "towel "about Marian's throat and pulled tightly for two minutes before she was unconscious," was "Then he took a pocket knife and cut a bole In her throat "Then he cut off each arm at the elbows. Then be cut her legs off at the knees, fession of kidnapping and murdering Tllarian Parker, is quoted as sayingTit wss as he was tying the' twelve year old girt to a chair to prevent her escaping from bis Los AngVles room while he mailed a letter to her father Saturday December 17, that the to murder came on him. "It was while I was fixing thVblind fold that the urge, to murder came upon me," he is quoted "And I just couldn't help myself. I got towel and steDDed a hu. up oeoina 4 men He put the limbs in 'a cabinet, conld move, I put it around her neck and Then be removed the thythinrad ent the body through at the waist He put it onTa shelf in ihe dressing room.

He placed" a towettt fh booy to'dnin the blood. 'v i' r'i "He wrapped" eadf of tte "arms' paper. He combed back her hair, powdered her face and therewith a needle fixed her vfw "He did this begnsereanaed that he would lose the money if he did aot have the body to produce to'ter father. "Hickman asidM last chance" note. to Parkar.

'He went Loew's State' theater i the aftermaaa after slaying frhejfc mos VA1 Plarta Tafcaa ta Car. "Hickmaa retarnedi abontr clock P. took an e4, tha hedy down to the. car, which was patted by a side entrance, harried, oat' gusset hen levsrd sad turned into parfc, where he disposed of the UnuSa. "Then he tot in.

a asjitcase and drove srotrnd. toseeUhst there; was no police in sight "He stopped twWjVth aid Sixth on Marshall andi took thasaiacase out Next he tamed the ends of his licenser plates so that the numbers Would net be easily 'distinguished; "He put a handkerchief over his face and waited for Perry" Mf Parker" whom he had telephoned' to meet. hint with A 600. Parks tar, Goes to Cafe. "When be saw Parker he showed his sa wed off shotgun, and told Parker to keep qniet He raised the' bead of fto girl and asked for the moaey.

'Hickmon said bo drove ahead and left the body. He Um "drove to Park and Grand avonte where he parked the car. 'He thea wenf 'to' Leigbton's cafe and had a meal' aad cashed the' Oast of the $20 notes be received from Parkar. He went home to' the BeDevns Ansa apartments, went to bed and slept la the morning the detectives visited the apartments lookingflor towels like those bearing the mark en the towels fannd oa the body. "Ia the afVooa'ae weak to the Tower theatre.

Late he west oat in Hollywood boulevard, stopped an inclosed car and forced "the' driver to take him several blocks. He took the car and IIS from. the man. This was Saaday evening. He immediately drove oat of Los Angeles, driving all night to Baa Francisco." ABOARD HICKMAN PRISON CAR, SAN LUIS OBISPO, December 27 (U.

William Hickman, In his full con fwiBtwTit tightly. I held and she made no outory except fo gnrgle, I held v. irViixtiH on lor aboat two minutes, I guess, and then I let go. When, I cat loose the fastenings she with a Inousand it A 1 1 ri1 aMaaMMasaaaasl 111 i a 1 Ill II WW 1 i sasisi i mar r' 0 v. ffc rf I rn iijh i i a j.j ''k'.

in "a.n iihm.ii ii 'jl '(j fell to the floor aad I she ws "Oh, I forgot, you. can see; I did not want to kill her because I told her before I bound her that if her father did not pay I would let her go home safely. "WeU, after she was dead, I carried her body into the bathroom and undressed her, nil but her cut a bole in her throat with a pocket knife to let the blood out" The pocket knife which Hickman" used is in the. hands of Asa Keyes, district attorney, Keyes announces. Hicaman's confession then told how he dismembered the washed each part (Jura to; Pace Seven, Please) I IT AII YearTrairitd jACKSONVILLE MIAMI Tampa st.

Petersburg 1 THROUGH sleeping car Indianapolis to Jacksonville and Miami Car to car transfer en routs on same train to throaghsjlceping car to St Petersburg. Observation car Cincinnati to Jacksonville. And those famous Big; Four ItootrLoaiawule ft Nashville meals that tickle tb palate of the most fastidious. Lv. Indianapolia Ar.

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Scribner's 'Sons 1 i ii'i Tot AtttHti. iaicttoatiou or restrrttions consult local Ticket Agent or J. N. LBMON, Dtr, Psaa. Agnt Ms Fawr Rmta 11 Man imt Clrele, toaUaasoUa, lad.

J.H. MILL1KEN, DUt. P.m. Aeot LoultrtllraNaahvlUaR.it. 9lt If crcbants Baak BMg, Indiaoapolja.

lod. Louisville Nashville R.R. TkfiUs! "I say!" Vance commented. "Some thng develish queer took place Here last night." i a "Oh, not sa Heath amended. "It.

was a thorough job, all right, but there's nothing mysterious aboutit." Vance polished his monocle and put it away, "If you go to work on that basis, Sergeant," he returned carelessly, "I 1 greatly fear you'll run aground on a i "i tt i il reei. Ana may Kina neaven onng you safe to shore!" i And there you have the key to oner of the most baffling 'murder mysteries Jrr' New York; police history. THE "CANr ARY" MURDER CASE, by S. S. Tan Dine author of THE BENSON MURDER CASE, begins in The Huntington Press, jTuesday, January 17.

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