Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...songwriting industry has long been the swift jump to record great tragedies and the eager wait for the profits therefrom. A catalog of such news songs would include: The Wreck of the Old 97, The Death of Floyd Collins, The Hall-Mills Case, Little Marion Parker, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, The Sinking of the Vestris. Last month, day after Will Rogers and Wiley Post crashed in Alaska, Songwriter Freddie Rose (Red Hot Mamma) whipped out pieces on that disaster, passed them on to Ray Whitley, a onetime rancher who has a nasal voice, plays his own guitar accompaniments, affects...
...Bradway Brown, supposedly murdered for revenge or blackmail, was killed by robbers who were traced when Detective Parker noted that similar robberies were following the main highways...
...Louis Lively, mulatto brush-maker who had the habit of cutting little girls' throats, was trapped when Detective Parker noted that Lively always used the same type of false tips to mislead police...
...David Paul. Camden, N. J. bank messenger, disappeared with $40.000, was thought to have run away until his lack of preparation for flight seemed suspicious. Detective Parker found that Paul was murdered by old cronies whose crime was almost perfect...
...killed John Brunen, circus-owner, to get his business was suspected by Psychologist Parker because his alibi was so good. Innocent people usually do not remember exactly wrhat they did on the night of a crime...