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“Fox” Says He Liked
Parker Girl
(Continued from First Pa«t.)
■as City and to to work and save
enough money to go to college.
Park College, near Kansas City,
I did It
Wanted SI,MO
I thought if X could gat enough
money to go to the school, and by
working some during the day, an
hour or two every day, in that way
I could pay the tuition. I thought
If I could save a thousand dollars
X could start next September, and
no matter how X got it X would go
straight from then on.
This man asked me what X
thought of kidnaping some one and
I thought I wouldn't mind doing it.
I happened to remember that Mr.
Parker had a daughter, because, in
working at the bank, this girl
came with him.
I didn't know just what date It
was. I was there in the bank sev
eral days and I noticed especially
and I remembered it was his daugh
ter because she was his favorite
and he would take her down and
buy her lunch, and she was around
the bank like she was a big man.
I didn’t think of her, however, be*
fore I thought of Mr. Hayes, who
is chief teller of the First National
Bank, and X think ho has a very
young child. I thought of that first
and thought he would be able to
get the money from him much easier
because he is chief officer of the
bank and handles hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. While I was In the
bank I saw all the money ship
ments come in ana used to go
around the vaults and any place
in the bank and knew practically
•veryone there.
Didn't Want Baby
In order to get this little girl,
the younger one, X was afraid it
would bo harder to handle her.
She was a baby and would prob
ably cry.
I thought either Mr. Hayes or
Mr. Parker would have sense enough
or I should say good judgment
enough, to consider 11,600 an easy
settlement in consideration of their
own daughter.
I meant no harm to either one,
but I thought it would be easier
to handle the older girl than a
little child.
So this man Cramer and I both
went out and he wanted to see
her and get a good look at her and I
went to the house to see her and
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 could see her leave for school and
could see which school she went
Into and it popped into my mind
that if I went for her at the school
I could get her that way.
Didn’t Question Him
I did not * plan out the results
ahead of that until I satr the girl
that morning. And that afternoon
I 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 girls I wanted and I
said I wanted the younger one.
She looked younger, but it turned
out they were twins, but she didn't
question me, anyway.
They asked what was her first
name, so I told them I didn’t remem
ber, but I told them I worked at the
bank. I didn't give my real name.
I forget the name I did give them.
When they asked me which girl I
wanted, and I said the younger one.
They asked me if it was Marian.
X said, ‘Yes, that’s the one the father
is calling for.* Then one of the
other teachers went and got the girl,
and I saw that was the same girl I
had seen in front of the house.
She Asked Questions
When the girl got in the rar
with me she started asking ques
tions about what had happened and
how it happened and who hit him
and I made answers to all her ques
tions. When we started back we
just had a general conversation,
talking about picture shows and
merchants and school and anything
that came un in conversation gener
ally with people. We got so well
and closely acquainted that I really
kind of liked her. I couldn’t look
ner in the face when I told her she
was kidnaped as though nothing
bad happened.
When I told her nothing had
really happened to her father she
didn’t scream or worry or anything.
She took it as calm as could be
and I told her she could realize
if I got caught what I would have
to suffer and I would h‘aoe ”t 6 tie
her nose and tie her mouth so she
couldn’t make any noise hnd she
said: "Please ,don't do it. I will
promise not to make any noise.' " So
T didn’t tie her and we drove
around all that afternoon and went
to a show that night, even to a
picture show, the Rialto Theater in
Alhambra, and she didn't do or say
anything much.
Intended No Harm ....
I really didn’t intend to do her
any harm and here is where this
other lean’s part of it played in. He
was to have the hiding place for the
girl and to keep her quiet and I was
supposed to get the money.
My partner only wanted two or
three hundred dollars out of the fif
teen hundred. He said he didn’t
want much money, anyway. He
seemed to like the idea of kidnaping
the 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 day I saw her. That was Fri
day evening.
Well, 1 kept writing all those let
ters and had her to write a letter to
her father making it seem like she
was being treated badly and I don't
know what he did. but she didn’t
seem to like this man and didn’t
want to go with him. Instead, she
wanted to stay with me. But I
couldn’t do anything like that be
cause we had to go through with
the plans.
She Wanted to Go Home
Anyway, she wanted to go home
as soon as possible, and I thought If
the father was willing to hand over
the money, and he had It It was per
fectly all right, and as soon as I got
it over with the better It would bo
for me, anyway. So I called up her
father and he said he bad the money.
We planned a meeting and that
we were to meet on a certain street,
and then after I called up hie house
from a drug store between his home
and the meeting place, Z went up
there and could watch him pass by,
so when I went and got in the car
X sat there so I could wotch for him.
I came up and saw him and there
were two cars driven closely to
gether. so I drove out on the side
end followed him to the meeting
place. They lived on G-amarcy
Street, which is just one block north
and these two cars stopped. When
I saw them I was absolutely certain •
they were detectives and they were
going to try and trap us, and I
concluded to take the girl back and
turn her over to the man again.
I wrote them another letter then
and this man suggested I was get
ting the time too near, but that would
make it much safer, so 1 made it for
the appointed day anyway. They
were making such a tig search he
was afraid they would find the girl.
So on Saturday when he came
to the apartment with this suitease
and showed mo who It was I was
sure surprised. He said the police
were already suspicious of the plaee
and he said she was crying and he
tried to step her or something like
that and he figured that the safest
way would bo to go ahead and fix it
that way and for me to keep my
suitcase in the ear and to go to thia
eice and If the police stopped me
fore I could get rid of it they
might look at the suitcase and
never stop to open it. I thought
that way might be all right. Ho had
already gone ahead and opened it,
anyway, so in this letter I told the
girt’s father if I were paid before 6
o’clock that night that his daughter
would still be alive, and I didn’t find
out until after 8 o’clock, when my
partner came up to the apartment,
that she wasn’t.
Even after I had written this
letter, no matter whether she was
alive or not, I thought he wanted
his daughter anyway, no matter
what condition she was in, so I
went ahead and called him up and
planned the meeting place. Ho was
there all right. If he had not
brought the detectives with him the
night before he would have gotten
her back.
And if this fellow had not
killed her it would have come out
all right, as we had planned. I'm
sure she didn’t want to die because
when she was with me she said,
“I wonder what the school kids will
say when I go back to school. They
will want to know what I did and
everything.’’
I am terribly sorry she was killed
because I sure liked her. (Tears
interrupted the confessed kidnaper
here.)
(When the chief of police asked
Hickman for a description of the
man who is supposed to have
killed her, "the fox" answered:)
He was about 6 feet 8 or 9 inches
tall and had almost black hair. I
don’t remember the color of his
eyes, but as far as I remember I
think he had been leading an im
pure life. He had a sore upon his
chin, but that might have been from
the way he had been eating. The
times I saw him when I picked him
up he had a kind of gray overcoat
and he just had the one suit. It
was kind of tan or brown. He had
a kind of rough face
Led Hard Life
He looked not to be more than
over 20, but he looked older because
I think ho had been leading a hard
life
He wouldn't tell mo where ho was
staying though ho was to have his
part in the plan and I my part.
Crooks sometimes will g« back on
each other if another one knew that
the other one did it; makes every
thing safer and less dangerous if
we didn’t know where each other
stayed, he told me, so I don't know
where he kept himself.
He didn’t stay in the same apart
ment I did. I was there all by my
self. I don’t know whether the
woman had anything to do with it
or not. Her first name was June
and I think her other name was
Dunning. She weighed about 126
or 130 pounds, I guess, and was
about 26 or 26 years old. 1 knew
they appeared to be a well matched
couple.
I never did know what address
they had. You see, in the condition
I was, a crook, I hadn’t been used
to friends when I picked them up.
I had been alone quite a time
anyway. I had been to a good
many places, Chicago, New York,
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia. Washing
ton, D. C., and other places before
I came out to the Coast.
I didn’t know where to meet
him or how to call him. We al
ways planned to meet at places. I
didn’t have any address of either
of them. And the last time 1 saw
him was when he brought the suit
case up to the apartment and he
told me when I got the money
that if I got it to go up to San
Francisco aS soon as I could safely
get away, as the police were awfully
suspicious here anyway.
Ono thing that happened Sunday
morning was that about 200 detec
tives camo up to ' the apartment
and looked over the place and
started searching it One of the
follows had the name of-the apart
ment written on a paper and they
searched every plaeo. When they
camo to my apartment I was sing
ing and playing the phonograph.
The detectives came in and looked
around, but didn’t express any sus
picion of me at all and I went out
in the hallway and talked to seven
or eight of the best detectives in
LOs ArigMes. I asked them if
there was anything I could do, but
of course there was nothing. They
searched my apartment and then
left. It was quite interesting.
Held Eyes Open
Cramer had the girl or part of
the effects of the girl, when he
came up to the apartment. I
guess he threw the other parts
away where they said they were
thrown away. The only part he
had were
was cut right across the middle
of the body and her arms were
fixed up and he had put her
dress on her. He had her dress
and a little sweater thrown pn
her face and of course she was
The .way the mouth was
set it didn’t look very deathlike
the way he had fixed it. He had
some little threads fixed through
her eyebrows which seemed to
held her eyes open.
He opened the suitease so I could
see what he had. That happened
right in my apartment. When I
saw what he had 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 when
he came in I asked him where she
was. He was supposed to bring
her up to 1 the apartment.
Forgot Address
When he came in with the suit
case and I asked hint that, he kind
of grinned and set the suitcase
down on the sofa and opened it up.
I have already told you what I
saw and everything.
When I got the money I was
supposed to make as quick a got
'away as 1 could and meet him at
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TEETHE
SUITS FILED
Three suits for absolute divorce,
two by wives, and one by a hus
band. have been filed in the District
Supreme Court.
George A. Bronaugh, off 4801
Sheriff Rd. N. E., names a’core
spondent in his suit against Elsie
Bronaugh, of 926 O St. N. W. He ac
cuses her of numerous acts of mis
conduct. The couple were married in
June, 1904. Attorney Jacob N. Hal
per represents the husband.
Mrs. Nancy E. Miller, of 1920 L
St. N. E.. names a corespondent,
accusing George N. Miller of 137
Bates St. N. W. with misconduct
on numerous dates and at numerous
times and places. Hal per also rep
resents Mrs. Miller.
Mrs. Bessie Shoemaker, of 826
Fifth St. N. W., in her suit against
Theodore Shoemaker, of 610 Elliott
St. N. E., names a married woman
as corespondent and accuses her
husband of cruelty, desertion and
numerous acts of misconduct. The
couple were married in 1903. At
torney Lucien H. Mercier repre
sents Mrs. Shoemaker.
Jap Troops Ready to
Move Into Shantung
TOKIO, Dec. 23.—Minister of
war Shirakawk reported to the
cabinet today that the alxth divi
sion army, now stationed at Kum
amoto, has been ordered held in
readiness for dispatch to shantung
to protect Japanese interests there.
The majority of the cabinet de
cided that the dispatch of troops
la as yet unnecessary. It is be
lieved, however, that when the
Southern Chinese armies take
Hanchuang, Japanese troops will be
ordered to Shantung.
the Harold Hotel In Frisco. I for
get just where that is located.
Cramer told me where it was but
I forgot the name of the street.
He said he knew where it was
and that if I got to the hotel he
would be there.
I got the money and beat it as
quick as I could and left the car
in a parking station where the
police found it later.' That ’Was
on Grant Street. I went back to
the apartment and Mot my things
together and the next morning as
one of the pollc6nteA ' came' up
there to search it, that made me
glad to go away quicker, for then
I took first all evidence of the
guna in one package and - went
down and checked them at a Place.
I left most of my stuff in the
apartment. I left some little clothes
and some other articles in the
apartment, a slicker and a pair of
overshoea.
I put the stuff all In one case
and took that and some of my
other things and checked them at
the place. I then went to a show
and after that I went out in Holly
wood to get this Hudson. Then I
just came back to the station and
put these grips in there and these
guns and drove right away for San
Francisco. I was stopped three
times before I got through and
Questioned by policemen, but none
of them suspe ted me at all.
, The first time I was stopped
was right out of Los Angeles. I
was rather acarey because thev
asked me questinns. I told them I
was driving to Ventura to get my
mother. I told them my name was
Beck. I had just stolen the cat,
but knew it couldn’t be reported
that quick and I had a license cer
tificate with me, but didn't need to
show it to them for one of the
fellows said to let me go ahead.
A State officer stopped me near
Ventura, but let me go without ask
ing any questions., The third was
just as I was pulling Into Santa
Barbara. He didn't stop to look,
hut just said hello and asked me
how I was. I answered all right,
fine or something like that. Then
I asked him if he was still on that
kidnaping ease and he said Tou bet
your life w* are.’ I said ,‘I hope
you get him.” I said the same
thing to all "the rest of them on
the way up from Loa Angelos, I
enjoyed the conversation and wasn’t
a bit scared, but when they got
mo I knew it was all up.”
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