MURDERER'S MENTALITY.
Time-table of a crime.
SUICIDE ABANDONED. LONDON. May 3. " I didn't half give it. to the d — boy. It made him squeak," was the callous avowal of Ernest Walker, a 17-year-old footman, in explaining his intentions in a farewell letter to a friend after murdering Raymond Davis, a district messenger, whom he had summoned for the purpose to his rooms in Lowndes Square. Ho related how he took the boy to the pantry and hit him on the head. "It was so simple, I sat down and turned on the gas and passed over the border." Apparently Walker's nerve failed and he quitted the house. The letter mentioned a previous attempt at suicide by shooting, after Walker's mother died, but his nerve failed him. " I'm sane," it ran, " but I cannot live without dear mother."
An envelop© was found bearing a sketch of a coal hammer and a detailed list of Walker's intentions, with a timetable with such indications as : " Summon boy. . . . Hit him hard on the head. ..."". Torture him . . Prepare myself for death by gas poisoning." The coroner described the books found in Walker's room as " sensational detective trash."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18087, 11 May 1922, Page 7
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192MURDERER'S MENTALITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18087, 11 May 1922, Page 7
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