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fMOMWlNMMBNMRftRHBBMVHNNpaMRI v <J?ptun*d Car and Liquor. A new Hudson coach containing 72 gallon# of corn Whiskey wa? seised about 3 o'clock Saturday morning atl the Wuterce River toll JnidK" by Deputy <j. F. Cooley, rural policeman , C. P. Hilton and special officer J, W. Cole. Two white men giving their names as C. E. Johnson and Joe, Thompson and their home address a# Charlotte were placed in jail. Both men were later released on $500 bond, Saturday morning the liquor was poured into the sewers at the Court house in the presence of J. JB. Curqton. foreman of the grand Jury and several other witnesses. . r.Tj-r" ? ' ' K/' *,Sf Holiday Marriage License*. Marriage licenses Issued through the office of Judge W. L., McDowell of the jtfobate court for Kershaw County during the Christmas holidays * are as follows; I Kollfns Womack of Carrtdcn and Iftsa Alice Campbell of Cassatt. Plato Durham MdCord, Rock Hill, hnd tMiss Ethel Turner MgCpnnel), f Wh - :W-- . John David Hicks and Miss Jeanie Arnold, both of Dawson, Ga. William Atley Brown, Harmony, N. C., and Misa Bin a Tutherraw, High Point, N. C. Dick Napper and Miss May Belle Ray, both oi Westvllle. Will Barrett and Miss Mary Roberts, both ot Jefferson. ? .. Two bandits robbed the bank at Chetser, Va., Wednesday afternoon of mora than $3,000 after locking several bank employes in the vault. HICKMAN IB NOW IN JAIL ?Continued from First Page ing told that Walsh will arrive Thursday morning, Judge Hardy set % o'clock that afterpoon us the time of Hickman's plea. This over, and there being nothing to do but wait for Attorney Walsh's arrival, the priaoner was returned to the jail and turned over to a brigade of photographers who kept him busy most of the day, while the score of officers, detectives and newspaper men comprising the official party went home for their first feal rest in a week. Hickman's complete confession, made public this morning, reveals a story most beyond of belief in modern times. "I arrived in Los Angeles November 23, and set out to look for a girl to kidnap," is the calm way it begins. "At first, I decided to kidnap another child but she was too young and 1 decided to take one of the Parker girlg, 1 sfcleetpd Marian because she seemed to be her father's favorite." Hickman then relates how he took the child at the Mount Vernon school and drove about the city with her. She promised to make no outcry, so he did not bind or gag her. That night the abductor and hi* victim attended a picture show in Alhambra and than returned to Hick man's apartment in the Believe Arms. Thagj remained outside for an hour until it, was safe to enter. ' i "Marian slept on a couth that night arid I slept in the bed," the confession continue*. "Next morning 1 wrote a letter to Parker and Marian wrote ode, too. I tied her to a kitchen cHair and went out And mnilW the letter and bought some papers. j Marian waa intereated in aeeing her picture in them. v"Thefi we went for another ride, going down the coaat half way to! Han Diego. A gasoline /station attendant looked cloaely at hef and we came back, Marian aat in the car at Sixth and Main atreeta while,! tried tA telephone her father but the line waa busy." Sixth and Main atreeta is one of the city's busiest downtown corner a. The child would have had but > to step into, the passing Christmas shopping crowd to be safe. "Then we went out by Angelu* Temple and I phoned again and made an arrangement to meet Parser. We drove out to Tenth and Grumercy but he was followed by two police cars and we drove away. "That night, we alept the same as before and next morning we wrote letters to Parker again. I tied Marian to the chair and blindfolded her, ' / "Just us 1 was going out 1 waa seized with an uncontrollable desire to kill her. 1 wrapped a dish towel around her neck, telling her I vyas going to make <h?r more comfortable. I twisted it tight before she could scream, in two or three minutes she was dead." A revolting story of. the dissection of the body follows. {Jeing a large knife, Hickman dissected the body, drained the blood In the bath tub gnd wrapped the pieces cgrefully. Then he powdered the girl's face, combed her hair, and sewed the eyelids open, so they would appear natural when her father saw her. Then Hickman went to a show which he did not enjoy and wept home and got all the parte of the body except the torso, driving out to Elyaian Park and throwing them away, "then he returned and made an appointment by phone with Parker, followed by the now familiar exchange of the torso for $1,500 ransom money. Hickman then drove down town, parked his car and went to dinner, paying for the repast with one of the* marked ransom bills. He slept in the apartment that night. Next day, Sunday, he went to a show in the afternoon, then took a street car to Hollywood and held up Prank Peck taking the latter* ! Hudson car. His flight and final apprehension in Oregon followed. r Captured in Oregon. ' 4 Pendleton, Ore., Dec. 22.?ClimaxJng the most spectacular man hunt the west has/known In years, YVilliatn Edward Hickman, youthful fugitive wanted as kidnaper arid slayer of Marian < Parker, 12-year-old <L?? Angeles girl, was captured at febho, Ore,, near here this afternoon. * Hickman, trailed closely by reports | of his progress from Seattle, where last night he had spent one of the $20 bills he took from the girl's father in Los Angeles, was found by two I Pendleton officers on the old Oregon trail as he sped in a large car yphich had been stolen, at Los Angelet, He was taken without resistance. A sawed-off shotgun was ffrnnd in the car beside him. Hickman laughed hysterically when he was told at the Pendleton 'city jail that he was the rnurdererv.of Mo rian ! Parker, He. at first refused to admit his own name but later broke down and confessed his identity. He said the girt was killed last Friday, but in his first statement declined to take the responsibility, for the slaying. He said it was the work of a "friend." The girl, he said, was strangled with a wire. Later he confessed that he wanted the money obtained in the kidnaping to go to college. A great crowd gatnered about the city jail when the news of Hickman's capture spread through the city. ' There was no indication of vengeful spirit, however. Reports telling of Hickman's flight 1 east on the Golumbia River highway from Portland, where Hickman was seen early today, apprised officers here on his approach to this section. Chipf of Police Tom Gurdane, of Pendleton, and State Officer Buck Ueuallen saw a big green car approaching as they stopjK'd at a curve in the highway to light their pipes. g' -LigJ-ll l'_ ' L IL.J. 1 II! ... .I1.1"1.'! Ml They observed that the license plates of the car were switched, and that the car corresponded, to the description of the one used by the fugitive. They hailed the driver. The ear did not stop, and the officers gave chase, drawing up alongside covering the driver and ordering film to stop. Hickman was immediately brought to Pendleton, where I search revealed bills of the denomination he received ffbm Perry Parker, father ! of the girl, last Saturday night just before the dismembered body of the ; child was placed on the curb. Officers roped off an area around ' the city jail. The crowd, though milling about to get a glimpse of the prisoner, was orderly and restrained. Subjected to a grilling at police headquarters, Hickman broke down and sobbed out the name of Andrew Cramer, of Los Angeles, as an accomplice in the crime. Hickman said , he himself had rro part in the killing and did not know the KiH fed tees fl slain until her body was delivered to I I him in the Bellevue apartment list ? Saturday night* -^r1 Injection of Cramer's name I new mystery to the case and pottte I i in I>os Angeles, apprised'of Hick- 1 : man's statement, launched a new 1 ^ I search.' Little Marian was Thursday and Hickman related that I he took her to a show Thursday night | Aftei^ that, be said he turn^dAter afar ?| to Cramer and did not know where cte I had been kept until the body, wm i*> 1-4 turned to his apartment Saturday I I night. In giving his version ot tb$ crim*M'i young Hickman remained calm until I he mentioned the name of-the slate 1 ; girl. "Marian and I were good ? friends," he sobbed, "and we had a good time when we were together and fl I really liked her. 1 am jerry that she was killed." | 4?am it.-T ? . mmmmT*mmmmm?mmm'mi " ' i ? , i ! j HI i 11 ^ Municipal Water and Light Department^^^H CITY OF CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA Water Kates ah Approved December I, 1927, by City Council First .... .. . 1,338 .cubic feet 29.25 ctnta per 100 cubic feet Next. .. .. f ,83*1 cupI'.* feet 22.50 cents per 100 cubic feet Next .. .. <. .. 2,007 cubic feet 1H.75 cents per 100 cubic feet Next 4,000 cubic feet 16.00 cents per 100 cubie feet Next ., ., ,. . 17,333 cubic feet 11.26 cents per 100 cubic feet .. N*Xt ... , 26,007 cubic feet 4 9.88 cents, per 100 cubic feet Balance at 7,50 cents per 100 cubic feet ' f, ' ' . r <j Minimum charge per cvu\o)mt r per rilonth: %" Meterf 1.00 T v * "Meter /1.60 ? a a ? *. v ., / imSs IP* 1 . 2 "Meter 6.00 '3 "Meter 16.00 * 4 "Meter 26.00 4 Mdtorfower Rates* '.firvt :v 300 K.W.H. 7 cenl* per K.W.ll. : :ti Next 300 K.W.H. 6 cent* per K.W.H. Next 1,000 K.W.H. 4 cents per K.W.H. Balance 3 cents per K.W.H. * , ?.. . Minimum charge per (^intbmer per month $1.00 per connected horsepower. Heating Kates; t+' First 100 K.W.tl. 4 P.tepta per K.W.H. Next 1,900 K.W.H. 3% cents per K.W.H. Next 2,000 K.W,H. 3 ?cents per K.W.H. ' NeM 6,000 K.W.H. 2% cents per K.W.H. .Balance,at ' 2 cents pe^K.W.H. ? Minimum $1.60 up to 2 K.W. connected load; $3.00 above. Commercial Lighting Rate: First , 12!K.W.H, at 12'/* cents per K.W.H. Next 100 K.W?H. at 10 cents per K.W.H. Balance at 8 cents per K.W.H. Minimum $j.60. % ' 7 , ; ' ' | . . 3 . Residential Lighting Rates: 'kit . j i m Houae containing up through 7 rooms, Block 1, first 26 KWu 1 ISat 12V* cents !>? ! K.W.H.; balance at <; cents per k.w.ij. ?| House containing 8 through 11 rooms, Block 2, first 34 KWn ?li at 12% centiTper K.Vf.H.; balance at.Grants par K.W.H ?'---Mlf " , " * f. > T - ^ J . | v V. . . House containing more than 11 rooms, Block 3, first 46 4? W M J*lt at 12% cents per K.W.H.; balance at 3 cents per K.W.H, ' ' ' 'I* T ! > ***'" I Inducement residential-rate, one meter ojnly, i'Bll in addition to lights, electric apparatus; not allowed on^wKs^* 'Wjjt contracts. > IS " /" . Block 1?First 26 K.W.H. at 12% cents; next 14 K.W.H. at -fil cental balance at heating < ?t| ||| Block 2?First 34 K.W.H. at 12% cents; next 26 K.W.H. at f'lB? cents; balance at heating rate. * If ? Block 8?-First 46 K.W.H. at 12% cents; next 45 K.W.H. at cents; balance at heating rate. \ |i| If water heating is done with small heater limited to 660 w&tfS*!! jlj on 40<ga))on tank and not larger than 1,000 watts on any sixe tank !| K the above inducement rates will be extended as follows: | Mf Block 1?All above 800 K.W.H. at 2 cents. | ;|J| Block 2?All above 400 K.W.H. at 2 cents. j |8 Block 3?All above 500 K.W.H. at 2 cents. '* jS Everybody Jkt Xfmimltil n-mhifi tmtfm Welcome! You Are Cordially Invited to Attend The First Showm|g&|||l The New CHEVROLET These Impressive Masterpieces of DistinctLe Automobile III Craftsmanship will be on Display in our mowroom HI Monday, January 2nd, 1928 p WELSH MOTOR COMPANY, Lmden, S. C. i 1 'Marvelous New Bodies by hsher~a host of Mechanical ImpiJBients