THREE MURDERS ALLEGED

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 7

THREE MURDERS ALLEGED

“MEEK LITTLE MAN” ARRESTED (TiJZ. Press Association—Copyright) ' (Rec. 10 p m.) CHATTANOOGA (Tennessee), * June 4. I police today arrested David SimpI jcn. “a meek down-trodden little | man,” as he was ploughing a corn- ' field- They said he readily confessed ( to a inass murder. # Simpson, aged 50, had been sought throughout the South after three of jus relatives- were hammered and hacked to death last week near Rock- ; wood. Tennessee. He was picked up I scarcely 75 miles from the scene of i the slayings, working as a farm la- | tourer. The bodies of Lawrence Walker, | aged 37. his wife, Florence, aged 26 and Mrs Walker’s mother. Willie Mae Davis, aged 52, were found near Walker’s farm home on Saturday. Mrs Davis was Simpson’s half-sister. Police said Simpson described how . he had killed his victims and buried them in shallow graves near a tenant ' house. They quoted him as saying; “I must have went crazy.** Police said Simpson began to act ■ moodily when his relatives accused him of molesting a small girl member of the family. Simpson told the police that he killed the younger woman first in a Sitato patch. He said he lured Mrs avis off after dragging the first body into the woods. Simpson was alleged to have said he cooked supper for Walker, and murdered him with a . hatchet while he was eating the meal “Simpson seems to be a meek downtrodden. weather-beaten little’ man, who appears rather inoffensive ’’ the police said. “He’s got a dreamv look in his eyes and is sort of vague about what happened, as if nothing I aeemed to be very important.” =