Show WOMAN SOUGHT AS ACCOMPLICE A IN P CASE v Hickman Heard Ta Talking to Feminine Companion Compan ion lon Police Say LOS ANGELES Dec 31 AP AP- AP Police investigators concentrated on ona ona a new search today for a woman they believe was implicated in the the and slaying of Marian Parker confessed by William E. E I Hickman Revelations which the police described de described de- de scribed as startling linked inked a woman yet unidentified with the crime and changed the day of the school girls girl's death from Saturday December 17 to Lo Friday December 16 Hickman in En his confession said that he lie had strangled the child Saturday A man and woman who occupied an rn apartment at the Bellevue Arms I apartments where Hickman lived ed as Donald Evans were said by officers officers cers ers to have related a conversation between Hickman and a woman de declared declared de- de lared to be several years ears his senior The rhe apartment occupied by the couple looked out upon the kitchen of f Hickmans Hickman's rooms lOoms HEAR lEAR CONVERSATION Eddie weve we've got to get out of here ere and get out quick was a fragment fragment frag frag- ment lent of the overheard conversation quoted to the police Officers were told that only a glimpse was obtained of the woman in 1 HIckmans HIckman's rooms She was said to 0 be modishly dressed and heavily Continued on page e 2 I I WOMAN SOUGHT AS ACCOMPLICE IN PARKER CASE Cont Continued from page pago 1 made up She did id all aU the t e talking investigators were Informed George Contreres chief investigator tor or for District Attorney Asa Aaa Keyes and other detectives of ot tho the department department depart depart- ment meat immediately began a check of the he new information It was pointed lived inthe inthe In Inthe out out that persons who had the apartments might be difficult to after alter out locate ocate as a number moved notoriety given the place in connection connection connection tion with Hickmans Hickman's arrest continued continued con con- While police pollee of or Los Angeles their efforts to prove that Welby Velby Hunt young partner of William William Wil Wil- Wil- Wil liam Edward km Hickman n carried that Inthe in partnership as far fal as complicity tho the and slaying of Manan Marian Marian Ma Ma- rian nan Parker 12 year old school girl reports emanating from eastern points tended to jumble more than ever the confusing angles of the case The Tho confession in Detroit of James Tames Ellsworth 23 declaring that Hickman and Hunt lunt had been Involved In Involved involved in- in in a seri of crimes that included the enforced killing b by Ellsworth of ot an aged man near Cottonwood Falls Kan w was s discredited dis dis- dis- dis ci edited credited b by the investigators here I They said that Hunt I-hunt was in Los Angeles last summer at the time Ellsworth said the killing took tool place The whereabouts of ot Hickman lUckman lUck Hick man at the time were not known Dispatches from Kansas City reported re reported reported re- re ported that young Hunt had bad admitted admitted admitted admit admit- ted to his mother that he lie had done some things that were wrong RUSE SUSPECTED In attempts to pin on Hunt Hum partial blame for the death of little Marian police today directed the spotlight of their search for facts on the little suburb of ot Alhambra which has line figured so much already in the case Deputies were searchIng searching searching search- search Ing for two men reported to ha have ve overheard HIckman and Hunt In close chose conference two days before the tho Los Angeles high school girl o-irl was A telegram claimed to have been sent by Hunt to his mother in Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City asking for information as asto asto asto to the whereabouts of HIckman at atthe atthe atthe the time of 01 the Parker might have been a ruse detectives said While these angles bearing on Hunt were being threshed out Hickmans Hickman's youthful lawyer oyer Jerome Walsh of Kansas CIt City denied that he had decided on an insanity de defense defense defense de- de for Hickman He declared last night that he had not yet decided de decIded decided de- de on a defense for the young confessed slayer FOX STOPS TALKING Walsh also said that he lie agreed I with officers in their contention that his client had not told everything everything everything every every- thing that he knew He also said he lie did not believe that Hickman was vas alone in the Parker crime Hickman however howe under instructions Instructions instructions from Walsh has stopped talking The county jailer was requested to discontinue allowing Interviews with HIckman What was considered by officers as o of possible significance was the discovery that Hunt and his grandmother grandmother grandmother grand grand- mother Mrs A. A R. R Driskell visited the Bellevue Arms apartments where Hickman confessed he had dissected the body of ot Marian Marlan with the idea of ot renting an apartment Mrs 1 Driskell however said that she had mad merely happened by and noticing a To Let sign in the windows Inquired about a double room She and Hunt did not take the apartment because they could not get a double apartment Police also continued their investigation investigation investigation of the death last May of Mrs Driskell's husband Hunts Hunt's grandfather whose body was found beneath the high Colorado street bridge at Pasadena COTTONWOOD FALLS Kan Dec 31 a AP AP Authorities Authorities today re reopened reopened reopened re- re opened an investigation of the slaying slaying slaying slay slay- ing of S. S M. M Rowley of Mason City la Ia whose body was found near here September 12 last THEORY DOUBTED The sheriff however was in inclined inclined in- in dined to scout the theory that Rowley wa was the tho man named in a purported murder n-murder confession obtained ob- ob tamed by Detroit police from a youth who nho said he was Vas James Ellsworth Ellsworth Ells RIle worth 23 of New York Ellsworth told the Detroit offIcers officers officers cers that he shot an aged farmer near here last summer when he lie was traveling with two youths who in introduced introduced introduced in- in themselves as William Villiam Edward HIckman and Welby Velby Hunt Ellsworth Insisted that the youth routh known as Hunt forced him to shoot the time farmer so they could obtain his automobile to replace their car which had load broken down Rowleys Rowley's body was found in weeds near the tho road from flom which It had mad been dragged Rowley who was about 50 years old l left ft Mason City to tour the southwest |