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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25th, 1928.

"THE FOX" BOASTS MADRID CHRISTMAS

OF HIS CRIME.

"I AM SURE TO GET THE CHAIR."

WOMAN ACCOMPLICE

MYSTERY.

LOTTERY.

£3,000,000 IN PRIZES.

NEARLY EVERY SPANIARD

The

HAS A SHARE.

Manaro, Dec, 22nd. NEW YORK, Dec., Bard,

ansund Christions lottery A snowstorm, which prevented was drawn here to-day. There was him from reaching the Canadian the usdal excitement over the re frontier, was the final link in' the sult, for almost every second per. chain which led to the arrest of son du Spain how some part, large William Edward Hickman, “The or small in the drawing. There Fox," who is accused of kidnap were prisp of 13, tru, five, three, ying and murdering Marian Pars) and one million pesetas, besides ker, a twelve-year-old schoolgirl, of many smaller) amuants. The total Los Angeles

Hickmupn, who was arrested in the village of Echo, Oregon, was trailed by a- twenty-dollar note which he spent on his journey. north and which formed part of the ransch money paid by Mr. Parker, the father of the girl

Fear Of Lynching.

The capture was effected by Mr. Tommy Gurdane, chief of police, a typical plainsman, assisted by Buck" Llewellyn, a Staig träthe officer, who picked up "The Fox's" seert a number of hours before the arrest and followed him isto, Echo. The man was removed immediately to the county gao at Pendleton to prevent possible lynching. He confessed to the kidnapping, "but

denied the murder, which he attri Iated to Mir named Andrew Cramer and a woman named June Dunning. His description of these prople is vague.

The Los Angeles' police, however, have located a man named Oliver Andrew Cramer in prisas, where the has been since July. They have also discovered that Cramer and brother, who is also in gnol, were friends of June and Rose Bunning, TWO SUSHITS The police believe that Hickman knew these people and concocted a story of their

assistance.

Hickasin is reported to have said to warder this morning, How do you out when you are crazy! want to plead insanity and handle my own cas like Remus (the bootlegger king) did in Cincinnati. He got

Not relty verdict for himself

showed amazing vanity con ying the crime. He talked with Parker, the warder, by his cell, and asked whether he was obtain

as much international licity as Leopold and bort trend following their murder of Robby Franks in Chicago.

It is stated that Hickman was infitenced by the Leopold Loen

erine.

Hickman informed his warder that he had only one fear-that

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value of the prizes approached £3,000,000. The firet person in the quene formed outside the Mint to secure seats to witness the draw- ing was awongng, who took up her position on Tuesday evening in | hopes of siling her place. Persis

ter rain made the life of those waiting in the queue miserable, al though the nothorities—as is tradi- tional did their best to soften

The Chief of their hardships. Police

coffer, sandwiches, cigars and cigarettes, and the Municipality supplied breakfast this morning.

Results Broadcasted.

The result of the drawing was teners-in could hear the rattling broadense, and thousands of li

of the fateful fute balls bewering the numbers of the tickets and of the prizes as the metal wire spheres in which they are kept were spu round.

The wonders of wireless enabled prize-winners miles away actually to hear the balls being picked and their fortune proebuined in, shrill voices by the litole, orphan bogs who are employed to pick the balls. The "big prize. Et Gordo (the fat one), fall to Madrid, where it is divided among a munier of people, the person who gets the fizzóst share being the sort di a barber in the poorer quarter of the enpital. Railwayren who had formed a pool, each man paying one pereta, secured another large portion. The second prize fell to Vigo. Many emigrants whe embarked, an December that that pors "hold parts in de winning number. — Tinies.

OLD WINCHESTER TO BE SAVED.

SCHEME TO PRÉSERVE,

ANCIENT,BUHİDINGS,

"A scheme to preserve the diarär ter of the historic central aren

Winchester has revived the sing sion of the Minister of Health.

Many of the most interesting features in Winchester have been

perple will try to fore religion destroyed by the vandalism of past

ויי! תנ

He added, do not ages. A amber of interesting

Nothing Like It Ever Before-

Perhaps Never Again!

A devastating sea wreck-caught in the whirlpool of the mad infuriated waters-Ben-Hur to the rescue--- the breath-taking struggle and you'll shout with exul- tation while the theatre re-echoes with thundering ap plause. This is just one of the superlative thrills in this mightiest of all spectacular screen masterpieces. You can't afford to miss it.

FROM THE IMMORTAL NOVEL BY GEN, LEW WALLACE

Directed by

FRED NIBLO

with a cast of iliowandi headed by RAMON NOVARRO

BETTY BRONSON

MAY MƐAVOY

CARMEL MYERS FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN

Proin the naval copyrighted by Harper Prom. Titles by Katharine 100lker and K. H. Cudwal, Contamer by Theatrekurit Hermann J. Kaufmann, "Berlin, N34. Alapsmium by JUNE MATHIS.. Szomario “by CARRY WILSON, Passomed by METROGOLDWYNMAYER

in miragement with Abraham for Triangers Ch

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The Mightiest of All Epic

Spectacular Romances!

BEN-HUR

what day religion.' Ite said that after, th ensure timber building A METRO GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE

he was convinced that he will he viled of the murder, despite his enim that he did not kill the girl, and declared: I am sufe

"get the chair.""

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prisoner showed much in- terest when it was explained to him that in California criminals are executed by hanging, and nos by the electric chair..

Hickman readily told what he described as his part in the crime. He explained that he kidnapped Marion Parker, not because of any desire for FNVELLE against her father, toto obtain money to pay for bis tuition at university.

I intended," he said, to ob tain the ransom and then go to

college and live, straight for the test of my life."

He stated that on the night of the same day in which he kidnap jwd the girl he took her to cinema performance at the Alham- bra, and then, because, he did as: knew what to do with her, he turn, ed her over to Cramer and Dun ning

were some ngen

The town ounce campot preserve ancient buildings which spol remain private property, but they will hos be able to prevent altera-) tions to old buildings ad control. new buildings.

One of the present probleins s the building along the road to Southampton.

If no action is biken, there will probably in few years' time a contiguous In of houses between, Windiester and SouthAmpan

It is proposed,, in the New Year, to take steps to secure for the nation a stretch of Comish cliff. known as Church Cliff, out fifty acres in extent, which is part of

COMING TO THE

1

MONDAY,

QUEEN'S JANUARY 30th

PARTY.

the glebe land attached to the WOMAN KILLED AFTER A vicarage of Tintagel. It overlooks the precipitous island rock, owned by the Frison of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, upon which stand the romantic ruins of King Arthur's Castle.

cliff

The rugged, windswept mands magnifier marine views, And the whale district is closely connected with the legendary ex- ploits of King Arthur and his Hickman, "that Cramer and Dunning strangled Knights of the Round Table. her with wine, dissected the body.

"it. "She cried so much the next

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and brought it to my apartment

in a suit case."

Hickman then deserited now he put the body together, propped it in a seat in the motor-car, and drove to meet the girl's father.

1,500 Dollars.

one is at home eating their Christ- snas .diumr. They will use armoured motor-car to carry him through the streets..

"THE FOX BREAKS DOWN.

Hickman took an obvious prida in telling how the police watched his apartment while he was present

NEW YORK, Dec. 26th. and played the gramophoar, and William Edward Hickman, innde how he baffled them in their first

two attempts at suicider yesterday suspicions, Inter escaping, undetectefore he gan-bis journey to Loy

ed.

GAMBLING TILL & A.M. 1

ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

LONDON, Dec. 20th. A tragedy in which a woman who was returning from a party with two meh friends fell froin a taxicab in Hamikon-plaw and res reived A fractured skull was the subject of an inquest of West- minster yesterday on JEM. Vivien Watson, aged forty, the wife of dan Government Political Service, Captain H. B. Watson, of the In-

Mrs. Rosalie Gibbons, the wife of a tea planter in India, said that on Deccinber 10th she was with Fra: Watson and a Mrs Malan at

house in Sloané-street, S. W. The coroner, Mr. Ingleby Oddie: Were you dancing No, I was playing cards,

Mrs. Gibbons said that she left

"He also jubilantly gave details Angeles, from Pendleton, Oregon, the house as a quarter past five

where he was arrested.

On one occasion his keepers

of how he was stopped three times by policr on his northward found him in his cell bunk-with journity, and told lies so Quently a handkerchief tied tightly, round That they were deceived.

Mrs. Eva Hickman (Hickman'self.

his neck, trying to strangle him-

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BURNT FROM HEAD TO FOOT.

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mean to say that you were there a that time playing bridge 1–No, it was not bridge. when informed of her, son's arrest, threw himself out of his bunk head The coroner: Oh you were gam- declared her belief in his innocence first to the floor, but only slightly bling. Was it voulette and immediately prepared to leave injured himself. He was

Mrs. Gibbons: "Must I say? for. California in order to be with managed to guards, and parted The coroner There is no harming catch of the door shen she ed sores, ringworm, cuts, burns,

to the train for Los Angeles, where is saying.

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The coroner said that he was from animal fat, is obtainable in Then why don't you -It might possible lynching when Hickman is have all gone, In contrast with get the peoplo in the house into satiated that the lock of the cab handy size boxes of all English brought back. It is reported that his former delant attitude he is trouble.

was in good order and that the and Chinese dispensaries Agents: they intend to bring him to gaol now constantly pleading with the

Mrs. Gabbana said that there was on Christmas afternoon when every

women were sot drunk. He re Messrs. A. B. Moulder & Co., Ltd., detectives for help to save him in drinking so far as the knew, corded a verdict of Accidental Queen's Road, Central, Hoog (Continued in next Column.) from the scaffold.

(Continued at foot of neri column.) ; death.”

Kong.