Show HI HICKMAN MAN Will DENY SLAYING IS INDICATION Three Unidentified Visitors Visit Visit- ors Visit Youth in Jail ail Cell PROSECUTORS BUSY Means to Block Insanity I Plea piea W Worked ork d OutI Out I I LOS ANGELES Jan 2 United Press Press Further indications that William Edward Hickman will not plead guilty to the murder murder- of Marian Ma rian nan Parker on the grounds of Insanity in insanity In- In sanity when he enters court tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row were in evidence today Three unidentified visitors c called on Hickman in lii his c clI Il in hi the coun county ouri- ouri ty jail and were In ce with him Jim for a long time It was was re reported reported reported re- re II ported they were helping outline def defense defenso ense plans The visitors were were accompanied by Joseph Ryan until recently a n. member member mem morn ber of the district attorneys attorney's staff Ryan R was wa's retain retained d to assist Jerome Walsh r JJ i City a attorney who wh I s 1 rw h I LOS' LOS ANGELES Jan 2 Ar- Ar AP Prosecuting officers believing believing- they I must combat a plea of Insanity in their efforts to convI convict t William E. E Hickman kidnaper and murd murderer of lI Marian rian Parker Parket today began laying laying laying lay lay- ing new plans for the trial Meanwhile they continued to dig digInto diginto diginto into the unexplained phases of the base case one of which they say is the discovery that Hickman entertained a woman in his apartment on the tue day the the- little girl w was s killed MOVES MADE The mystery of the tIle visit to Hickman's Hickmans Hickmans Hickman's Hickmans Hickman's Hick- Hick mans man's cell yesterday of three strangers accompanied by his cowl court sd sel Jerome Jerom Walsh o of Kansas City was regarded by the prosecutors as showing that further moves oves were being made toward constructing a defense bas basis s of insa insanity ity Although Walsh declared the trio were makIng mak mak- ing ng a i private investigation n of Hickman's Hickmans Hickmans Hickman's Hickmans Hickman's Hick- Hick mans man's activities and the three other men men insisted on concealing aUng their it was l learned that one was wasa a physician Walsh Insisted none none of ot them were alienists The strangers and Walsh with Joseph Ryan resigned member of the district attorneys attorney's office who admitted he ho was considering aiding aMing In inthe the defense of the youthful criminal criminal crim crIm- inal w were ro closeted for nearly an hour In Jailer Frank Dewars Dewar's of of- fice lice They conferred d d with Hickman Hickman Hick Hick- man there Ryan l left ft tho the district attorneys attorney's office e after hurling a a series of charges against the methods p pur pursued r- r sued In the tho conduct of ot the office Walsh declared that Ryan had been chosen to acquaint him with C California pr procedure DEATH PROBED Furth Further r Investigation Into tl the d death th last May of ot A A. R. R grandfather grandfather- of ot Welby Hunt confessed confessed confessed con con- aide alde of ot Hickman In several holdups one of which ended fatally tatt for tor the victim C. C I. I T Thorns oms was continued by deputy sheriffs and Georgo George Contreras chief of ot detec detec- of the district attorneys attorney's of of- fice lice Five asserted suicide notes of the elderly Alhambra business man were yere given a handwriting expert for investigation Officers assert the notes appeared to be written by persons other than Handwriting experts also were preparing preparing- reports on the signatures of checks drawn against bank account before his death last May The officers suspect the checks were forgeries They ThOy were Continued on par 5 HICKMAN ICKMAN WILL DENY SLAYING 1 IS INDICATION Continued from pa page 1 1 ira yawn n on the bank employing HIckman Hickman Hick- Hick man and Hunt as messengers and which discharged the former for forgery of checks The Tho reports of the he penmanship experts were were expected ex- ex to be ready for fog presentation Tuesday to the grand jury which vill will consider evidence for the possible pos 1105 nos- nos able sible indicting of Hunt for murder in n the Thorns Thoms case case The suicide not notes s were found stuffed in n a 3 single envelope on Driskell's person and indicated fi- fi troubles and ill III health as lis his reasons HAD MONEY IN BANK Investigators declared Driskell had several thousand dollars in lank jank deposits and was declared to toe Je e in good health shortly before his leath death His body was was was' found beneath beneath beneath be be- neath a high sp spanned nned bridge Two of if the notes written on deposit t lips of the bank Where the youthful criminals worked told who the tho mavas manyas man ma n was vas where to telephone his hi survivors survivors sur sur- ors 1 and that ht his body would be e found under a 3 bridge The woman In the case described describe d by the police Polito as older than man fashionably dressed and arid heavily heavily ily ity made up was wag de declared lared to have hav e been overheard talking in tho the kidnapers kidnaper's kIdnapers kIdnaper's kidnapers kidnaper's kid kId- naper's apartment t Friday December December Decem Decem- December ber 17 on which date they no now tv believe Marian was killed Eddie weve we've got to g get t out o Of n i h here r and get out ut quick the woman woman wo woman wo- wo wo- wo man was heard to say SEARCH LAUNCHED A search was launched for awn a 3 woman woman wo wo- man man who lived Jived In the apartment t house until a a few days ago A wax WaC dummy of ot Hickman dIsplayed displayed displayed dis dIs- played hanging from a gallows t to o advertise motion picture news reels reel g at the theatre in Belvedere a suburb suburb sub suh- urb last Jast night necessitated the callIng callIng call call- Ing on sheriffs sheriff's deputies to disperse I a a a. mob mo-b of several hundred The officers of officers of- of ricers said that the crowd believed the slayer was being hanged in effigy effigy ef effigy ef- ef figy and that several clashes occurred occurred occurred oc oc- in arguments over the case The advertised news reel featured T scenes of or Hiel Hickmans Hickman's mans man's i f return tur to L Los Angeles from Or Oregon gon l v as I I captured i |