The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, December 30, 1927, Image 8
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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. .
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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),
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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
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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.
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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.
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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." |
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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
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Minimum charge per cvu\o)mt r per rilonth:
%" Meterf 1.00 T v
* "Meter /1.60 ? a a ? *. v ., /
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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.
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. 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. % '
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Residential Lighting Rates: 'kit
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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
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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, ' '
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Inducement residential-rate, one meter ojnly, i'Bll
in addition to lights, electric apparatus; not allowed on^wKs^* 'Wjjt
contracts. > IS
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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
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