| Show Examines Hammer Use Used d in Quadruple Killing si 41 4 v UI ti r J k t r W WaI aI y rY z sY 4 Y YA 8 4 A YEAR OLD GIRL QUESTIONED BY LOS ANGELES DETECTIVE Chloe Chloc Davis looks at head of hammer while Detective B G. G Anderson holds broken handle I l. l Ae Police Detain Child In Mass Murders LOS ANGELES April 5 UP Police UP-Police Police Friday booked Chloe Davis an year old child with blue eyes and two blond pigtails on on a charge harge of suspicion of murder The suspicion was that she had murdered her mother two sisters and a brother Chloe had been ques questioned i ned for for I hours and she had i insisted over and over again that nether had killed her sisters Daphne 10 and Ann 7 and and- had frightfully wounded wound wound- ed her brother Mark 3 3 She I I I acknowledged having killed her mother and killing Mark to put him out of his misery but only because her mother had so commanded com com- Alienist Participates Dr Paul de deRiver River police alienist participated in the questioning and examined the child He said Her physical development is astounding in one so young She is cool has no depth of feeling has great powers of imagination imagination imagination nation for fantasy and is distinctly capable of planning and committing committing committing commit commit- ting the murders But so far I believe her story more more than I disbelieve disbelieve dis dis- disbelieve believe it We must take into consideration the fact that Chloe might have had hadan hadan hadan an Ele Electra ra complex This would lead us to to believe lieve her capable of such a deed She has s read a great deal She Is a brilliant scholar Her physical development may be laid to her great activities in sports Her mind is clear as a bell very quick I She is an extremely well disciplined disciplined disciplined child and could very easily have followed her mothers mother's orders or or- ders From Greek Mythology The tragedy of Electra Is recounted recounted recounted re re- counted in in Greek mythology She drove her het brother to take v vengeance vengeance ven ven- n- n upon their m mother ther bec because se she thought the mother had not been faithful to their father In Freudian psychology the term Electra complex is used to describe describe describe de de- scribe a person who is jealous of one parent for the love and attention attention attention atten atten- tion of the other parent Chloe was questioned for nearly 12 hours in a room In the Georgia street police hospital with but brief respites The questioning was conducted by Captain Edgar Edwalds Edwards Edwards Ed Ed- wards several detectives and Dr De River At no time they said did the child lose her placidity of disposition They will question her further Friday Chloe Only Survivor Chloe was the only survivor of the tragedy which occurred in the home of her father F F. Barton Davis 42 42 a butcher Police went there Thurs Thursday ay and found Mrs Lolita Davis 36 dead of heavy blows and burns Mark dead of a crushed skull and Daphne and Ann dying of id identical head wounds year old Chloe had gone to a neighbors neighbor's house to report to her father by telephone She told police that her mother had been afraid of demons had flailed her children with a claw hammer then had given her the hammer hammerand hammerand I and Instructed her to beat her head Chloe changed her story only once once to to acknowledge that she had killed her brother Chloes Chloe's story was Her mother and her sisters and brothers were all still in bed when her father went to work Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day morning Her mother then got up and began dressing Meanwhile the older girls had taken Mark from his bed and Mark and Ann were in the kitchen Her mother appeared partly dressed in the kitchen grabbed up the claw hammer hammer ham ham- mer and beat Mark and Ann on the head She went to the bathroom bathroom bathroom bath bath- room and found Daphne in the tub With a few blows she crushed her skull and Daphne collapsed face down in the te water Swung With Hammer Chloe heard heard a disturbance disturbance and in pajamas ran Into the hal hallway way where she met her mother Her mother swung at her with the hammer but she moved and the hammer only grazed her head Mrs Davis then handed her the hammer and ordered her to help drag a mattress the hall Mrs Davis lay on the mattress set fire to her hair and nightdress and shouted at Chloe to beat her until she breathed no more I C F A yil i iiA v iA 1 i i t |
