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 summoned to his rooms in Lowndes Square. He 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 envelope was found bearing a sketch of a coal hammer and a detailed list of Walker’s intentions, with a time-table 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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Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1922, Page 7
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187MURDERER’S MENTALITY. Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1922, Page 7
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