LOS ANGELES MURDERS
—■» CHLOE DAVIS RELEASED. DESPITE DISBELIEF IN HER STORY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LOS ANGELES, April 7. Chloe Davis, described in the Press as "Angel Face,” has been released, despite psychiatrists’ disbelief in her story. Suspicion was based largely on her unemotional recital of the tragedy and her demands for beer and lemon pile. An earlier message 'from Los Angeles read:— "Abandoning their earlier theory that a mother murdered her three children then committing suicide, the police are holding Chloe Davis, aged 11, on suspicion of beating to death with a claw-hammer her sisters Daphne, aged 10, and Deborah Ann, aged 7. her brother. Mark, aged 3. and her ailing mother, after wrich she attempted to burn her mother's body. "Chloe claims that her mother killed the girls and injured the boy. and then, failing to burn herself, appealed to Chloe to kill her with the hammer, which she did. then killing her brother in the same way.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1940, Page 5
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