Show TORCH SLAYER sue MEETS DOOM DOOMUN UN ON G GALLOS Pays With Life for Burning Aged Woman to Death in Store Robbery TREMBLES ON GALLOWS I Second Murderer Also Dies Patricide Faces Hanging By CARLE CATtLE H. H BENNETT I ISAN United Press Staff start Correspondent SAN QUENTIN PRISON FRISON Calif July 17 The Thc The hand that touched a match t to the soaked oil-soaked clothing clothing- of an elderly woman so she would burn bum to death trembled today as the gallows gallows gal gal- lows of San Quentin was sprung sprung- and Charles Simpson 18 was hanged Simpson plunged through the trap at 1003 a. a m. m He Be was pronounced dead at 1015 Simpson walked up the 13 steps unassisted and firm of tread He was accompanied only by his guards Arthur Fernley and Fred Hogoboom He declined to permit a priest to accompany accompany accompany ac ac- ac- ac company him i At the gallows platform he turned a thoughtful gaze at the ceiling He was silent and white He re remained remained re- re looking upward until the noose was af affixed ILE FRIEND D' D Sim Simpson Son was WM the slayer of ot Mrs Albina Voorhies 73 73 San Francisco grocery store proprietor who had been a long life-long friend of his parents The murder In which Mrs Voorhies Wes hies was tortured was wilful deliberate erate crate and premeditated and perpetrated perpetrated perpetrated in inthe the comission of a robbery Superior Judge Louis H. H Ward said when he p passed ed sentence on Simp Simp- son The atrocity of the crime wasso was wasso wasso so great that Governor Go James Rolph Jr of California refused to intervene intervene intervene inter inter- vene vene- and it was the first execution in this prison for more than six it months Simpsons Simpson's attitude caused some to believe ho was seriously delinquent mentally Judge Ward Yard ruled however however however how how- ever that In intelligence Simpson was Just below normal and he was abnormal only In the sense that he was antisocial and he was non responsible but only to the extent that he disregarded the interest ol ot of others when it suited his own The body of ot Mrs Voorhies was found in the bathroom of her living quarters behind the store five months ago today She had crawled there to escape the intense pain pala of her burns Simpson confessed he struck her Continued on Pare Page Three YOUTH WAlKS ALKS Ct TO TOI 0 U UL L I r L OOM NOOSE 1 Continued from om ran Page One over the head twice with a police club took 2 and some cigarettes Knowing that she would cause his hI 4 immediate capture if she lived lI he admitted he then poured coal oil OnS on onh S h tier her r clothing and set fire to It He ne fed led the flumes flames Simpson said with witha a U hAlt hail gallon container that he filled 4 WIth CO coal oil three times He lie ran awa away in such fright that he forgot his cap An n overcoat i t I wore and arId the thC club were burled in a 1 park nearby J CAP PROVES UNDOING t The next day Simpson went to the store with his parents and looked I t casually at the havoc he had wrought 1 t That night he lie took the girl Irl he called his sweetheart Anna Annn to a af ashow f show how with the money he had stolen I t On February 19 he was arraigned I in municipal court on an automobile theft charge and aud as he left len the room two detectives arrested him They 1 1 were ere convinced that an acquaintance I of Mrs Voorhies committed d the I crime and the cap fitted Simpson on I I He confessed p Slayer of Salesman Dies Dle's on Gallows SACRAMENTO July 17 Fred TV Mott convicted of or the murder of Jay Douglas Thomas San Francisco I radio salesman was hanged at Folsom Fol- Fol Fol 1 som sont prison near here today The trap was sprung at 1001 and he was j pronounced dead at 1015 Youth Faces Death I For Killing Father pINEVILLE Mo July 17 Up WV-Up 1 on his plea of guilty Joe oe Morgan 24 4 tod today was sent sentenced t to be hanged I I August 3 i for the murder of or his father fathI fath Lath I er Cr Floyd Morgan a De farmer near Goodman Mo I Circuit Judge Emory Smith pronounced pronounced pro pro- sentence upon the youth Morgan was slain at his supper ta table table ta- ta 1 ble after an argument with his son James Tatum prosecuting attorney aUr- aUr j ney advised the court that members of or the family had told him the death sentence was satisfactory to them j since they would fear for their lives if It Morgan were given a De life ILfe sentence and later freed |