Show CHilD MURDER IS INCREASING Degenerates Blamed for Remarkable Growth of Crime BY BOB nOB DORM DORM iN XEA Service Staff Mart V Writer riter MT HOLLY N J Oct G- G 6 Childhood bogies bogles the tao scaring once a a device o of ot parents hove have changed Into mod modern rn terror of reality crime reality crime that menaces in- in innocence innocence In Innocence and costs loung oung lives That Is the warning In succinct and homely language risen given hi by Detective Ellis Parker whose tame fame as tho the Sherlock Holmes of New Jersey has spread tar tar fai from Bur Bun Burlington Burlington lington county Child murder has told three told In 10 years says the famous detective Crime and aDd death have replaced childhood bo- bo begies bo bogles gies of mere fright Young girls are victims they are not safe sate even evenIn evenin evenIn In their homes or on public high high- high v s a w a av s Is the death of Emma Dickson 1 15 old lear old ear high school girl ouch Duch cucha a crime The question remains unanswered unanswered unanswered ed but the possibility of It gave Detective Parker larker a theme not here here- heretofore pu put into significant words As a 0 death mister ho he compared the caa case of at Emma Emm Imma Dickson found dead by the tho roadside near Port Elizabeth N J Sept 2 22 with these famous child murders which re- re remain remain re remain main unsolved m RECALLS MANY Y CRIMES Janet Lawrence 11 killed Oct G 6 1921 by 30 knife 1 wounds and anda anda a handkerchief twisted led around her neck In a woods near her home In Madison N J 1 two suspects acquitted Ream Constance Hoxie 17 beat beat- beaten beaten beaten en to death Feb 2 1920 In a bed bed- bedroom bedroom bed bedroom room of at her fathers father's apartment In New York City murderer never caught Causes of the Increase In child murder says say Detective Parker are thelo thesel Lack of ot parental care and that Ignore physical and mental watchfulness Lax marriage laws that Ignore lImore physical and mental unfitness Growing Grossing sentimentality ty In murder cases casu Degeneracy has Increased enormously Unless something Is done to check cheek unfit pO population It will eventually destroy us POINTS TO MURDERS l Parker pointed 1 silently to a 11 family ly Iy blight where tour four cousins In New Jer Jersey Jy all committed murder What hat makes the menace to childhood e even eien en wor worse e he says Is the failure allure of justice which Is Isto isto isto to bo ho condemned as much as the neglect i la In correcting the cause We have murder for tor three reasons Tardiness ot of o au- au authorities au authorities In reaching re crime scones scenes lack of thoroughness In examining the scenes absence ot of cooperation between the tha Investigating officials Curious sightseers often otten destroy detroy evidence Careless exam exam- examInation examination examination of a a body or locality ma may forever cloud a casei case eyen even a seeming trivial thing as the wath w weather ath- ath ather er en may be Important Mistakes arc are too frequently made In hasty autopsies 01 oi none nono at all and In speedy burial lo ToG Too many ninny many bodies are exhumed in conse- conse conse qu nce neglect notably of neglect notably the Halt HaIl Mills case at New Kew Brunswick the recent case casa at Windham NY N Y and the pr present sent case of ot Emma Dickson MAHRI GE GD CONTROL Detective Parker belle belies believes es reme reme- remedy remedy remedy dy of the evil e of Increasing murder particularly crimes against child child- childhood childhood childhood hood lies In In checking marriage among the tho unfit Next he make Investigating efficient And he would remove political control from the tho police ho lie Is Js the theone theone theone Experience Ie sas s one thing that solves murder m ms tories A new man who ho is ho doesn't know his business i is helpless And Parker Porker speaks as a man of experience In hI the business of crime In 30 years of chief detective ot of BUrlington county he lie has failed alle to solve only one case Jn Out ot of o n 99 In which ho he there thero theroa were a ere 93 convictions |