Hickman's alibi assailed; Cramer in prison at time of murder; tells of criminal career; Hickman's schoolmate, H W Taylor, sought; Hickman's mother wires confidence; pors of Hickman, T Guardane and B Lieullen

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1927Mary Higgins Clark, American author (died 2020)^[†]

Mary Higgins Clark was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remained in print as of 2015, with her debut suspense novel, Where Are the Children?, in its 75th printing.

Headlines from December 24, 1927

Train Kills Three Jersey Girls, Injures Five, As They Drive to Christmas Play Rehearsal

Many Boys Asking Coolidge For Those Yule Jack-Knives

ENRICHES ORPHANAGE THAT SHELTERED HIM; R.R. Fogel, Jeweler, Leaves the Bulk of $2,000,000 to Asylum of His Boyhood. OTHER CHARITIES GET GIFTS Employes Receive Share in His Business and Old Friends Are Remembered in Will. REPAYS ORPHANAGE THATS HELTERED HIM

HICKMAN CONFUSED AS ALIBI OF CRAMER PROVES HE IS LYING; Kidnapper Wavers When Told That Man He Accused as Killer Was in Jail.

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