Word: chloe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning was well along when Davis, busy at the grocery store where he was manager, had a telephone call from his oldest daughter, Chloe. All she said was, "Daddy, you better come home." and hung up. Puzzled, a little anxious, Davis hurried back, found eleven-year-old Chloe sitting quietly on the front steps. All she said to him was: "You better go in the house...
...wife, Lolita, in a welter of blood. Beside her was a broken hammer. In the bathtub lay the body of Deborah Ann, 7; in the kitchen were the bodies of Daphne and Marquis. In the oven were two burned pieces of toast. Only survivor of whatever had happened was Chloe, who, neat in a clean dress, her flaxen hair in pigtails, gazed at him with appraising eyes as he stumbled out of the house...
Summoned by a neighbor, Los Angeles police came. Daphne and Deborah, still faintly breathing, were rushed to the hospital, where they died from fractured skulls. Chloe herself had a slight scalp wound which had to be treated. Her head swathed in a bandage, blue eyes wide and unblinking, she told her story...
...Chloe wrested the hammer away from her mother. Her mother tried to set Chloe's hair on fire, then tried to set fire to her own hair, and her nightgown, which flared up, burned away and left her naked. Then she made Chloe help her drag a mattress into the hallway, and lay down on it. "She told me to hit her over the head and to keep on hitting her until she couldn't talk." Chloe obeyed, struck her mother "about 20 times before the head of the hammer came off, then about 30 more times with...
Four times Chloe fetched her mother a drink, each time drank a little water herself. On one trip to the sink she heard a whimper from Marquis, who was lying on the kitchen floor. "I went back and asked mother if I shouldn't put Marquis out of his misery. She nodded, so I went and hit him about three times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father...