Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 1 | Attorney Keeps Plan of Hickman Defense Secret

1 tAN LAN Of HICKMAN DEFENSE A Youth Will Not Plead Guilty to Girls Girl's Murder k kl I- I l f liNT KEEPS SILENT i l i ible With Marked Vers- Vers 28 Sent by Grandmother J LOS ILos i ANGELES ANGELES bee bec 31 31 United ess Edward ess Edward Hickman n ruthless lild iId slayer sayer want wants to live Uve but the tte fens through which he hopes to tove tove ve ve e himself from the gallows was wasing wasing wasing ing jealously guarded by his at at- here her rg tonight t. t Following a conference with Uig tl g Hickman late lae today tOdar Jerome Jerom h l Kansas ansas City ny l lawyer wYer d denied denied- that that- his client chiep would ead ad guilty to the nl murder rd r of ari arlon ll Parker park r antI and throw v himself ion on the ner mer y of the th court ourt Walsh branded brand printed rep reports to at effect as a deliberate f fals iise- iise lse- lse eod e- e od Jod and declared red he had be been n ted d lie continued to evade e n 4 I efforts efforts' 1 wever to learn tire lt iture re of ot the 1 1 JT Hickman HIckm n will willi ak ake wen W h n he ho comes into cour court re next Tuesday It waS ivas Ii S consI considered red highly likely r re tl t H may take a ad ad- S' S hew ie e California pen 1 cod and nd plead allty by re reason son of insanity EW QUESTION RAISED Indications noted l iy by y district orn ys' ys officers that the same ison son irson may not l c t h have ve written all of ofie ofle suicide notes l ie le five fhe purported ken IJ from the body y of or A. A R. R Dds Ill ll grandfather of f Welby Hunt i jung ung confessed accomplice o of Wil- Wil im un 23 E B. B Hicl Hickman man i in iii the holdup and I ital sh shooting of Qt a. a druggist tonight t the t investigation intoe into ie e Cl es surrounding George C ras chief t of the attorneys attorney's olee of- of ce ee placed th five noteS noted in tIe the ands of a handwriting cx expert rt for in C H said saia saia his y yn hasty stY inspection tion of the notes note that ill all were vere not ot written Y y- Driskell f whose whose- b body dy was Vas f found und low elow a Pasadena bridge which has 1138 mc widely known for the for the numer num- num er r of J leaps ap from leg les high pans pans' ans Contreras said that Inie In ir ie le suicide notes note were vere similar to tG iose os-e os made J py y the h hand band nd o of Hick Hick- lan ian th the confessed confess d kidnaper r and layer o of little Marian Parker The sport port of the n expert ill iii be available by T Tuesday s ay PS SEALED Meanwhile le the lips S' S of both bohi hick hick- ia ian and his year old pal in Welby Hunt Hun havo pavo avo been eli by their then counsel counsel and the t c cales ales lies of ot frenzied crime committed ithe pair have haye been temporal temporarily ily alted Hunt named as aco ac- ac o in th the holdup and Playing f tIvy sIvy Thorns Thoms druggist t tO tod today y re revived re- re eved a worn and and- somewhat tatt tat- tat t copy tred re copy of a Bible rom front his step step- Mrs A. A R Wh Whether dl L' L the Bible gad ad d any significance in m ion lh the silent policy R suddenly by the youth w was vas g a m matter bot 01 surmise when certain passages in bOth Mi the Old and New Testament ere re found to be marked The seventh verse of df r. r the sixty sixty- ct thIrd ird chapter of Isaiah was parl park par- par k l Hy lIy underscored in blue pencil surrounded d by b ba a black penciled border it u Tead read rHo was oppressed and afflicted set et et he opened not his mouth he Is is- ought a aa as a lamb to the slaughter pad And as a a. sheep before her M I oI dumb so he ho o opened ned not nis VERSES MA MARKED K D. D I Another m marked rk d verse verse was the the- twelfth from th the second fifty-second chapter chap chap- ter e of f Isaiah which read EOr r ye Yo shall not go out with st v. v nor go by flight for the Lord LordI HI i go out before you and aorl the God GodF I f. f BI t Israel srael F N will be bo your rearward I- I INo No 0 complaint has been Issued F Continued on page 2 toed hed ATTORNEY KEEPS O Tb o oPLA PLAN PLA OF HICKMAN l g D SECRET I s n 1 Continued from page 1 vai va Ve aga against i ns t tH H Hunt a as a yet tet Chief De 1 S y yaga y District DistrIct dared his bus his Attorney Harold Davis d de cared case would bo be b taken he fore the grand gran Jury Tuesday j I stead lanned of Monday as as' I a planned District Attorney leyes c s 's s ala alss i working on information sent seit hers here so from Crom Austin Tex cold blooded killing there of ot otan S t an 18 year old year old girl wh who who w was waa nen pe J identified S v FOUND BODY cula ula Bearing the marks marks' of ot atran lt m. m tion ton the girls girl's gIrls body was wa discovered 1 t V tl ti on a lonely road near Fredericks Lad burg Tex at a time when hen iroll lck Irol man was admittedly in Jn that that ho she sh eaty Deputy Sheriff Sheri J. J E. E Mc Me- Meth t th Lain aln sent the the d report Ii h Chester Pa re police pl e wired local authorities also the description o ofa ot of i I te U a bandit who killed a a service ia ton manager James 0 0 Clare HI is Ml ort ort- ort ort- October r 29 The description Is i si r T rilar liar ilar to Hickmans Hickman's and he e admit amt f r belT in that vicinity at nt the time t Hi police said Its Hs District Attorney ees tO today received a telegram from MiJi Mn n i it I e c Gladys Gadys of Kansas City Chy i 1 mother of young youn Hunt a ak d Z i 6 Sten whether she could come to Los Ls An orid Id to aid in the defense of ot her hr tord tT e j S Authorities wl wired ed back that thit 76 on son tbt b b the matter mater was entirely ly up to her hu f iv o I