European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . Simpsons perilous run from the cover carrying enough candlepower to Light a Village. Near the truck a dog stretched lazily beside a Garden As Beautiful As a Rainbow. And then . Emerged turned himself Over to the police used his bathroom accepted a Glass of juice and like sons everywhere caught in trouble asked for Lime to Call his Mother. It was a peaceful end a surprisingly peaceful end to a week that was drenched in trauma tension and blood. On june 12, .�?Ts sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her Friend a Young waiter Model named Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death outside her $650,000 town House. Almost from the moment their bodies were found less than two hours later As crumpled and porous As Caesars suspicion focused on . With the help of his Star Quality dignity and heavy doses of sedatives he led his two Young children through Nicole s funeral service holding each by hand his eyes shielded by sunglasses. By june 17 after collecting piles of evidence and leaking much of it to the press los Angeles police officials were ready to arrest him .�?Ts lawyer was going to bring him in. _ Only . Fled accompanied by his lifelong Friend and All purpose aide a1 Cowlings who was doing Simpson one last service. The cops already reeling from the High profile blunders named Rodney King and the . Riots were beside themselves. Haw could they have lost one of the most famous men in America cmdr David Gascon his Stern face Frozen in anger came to a press conference and announced a emr. Simpson has not  the gathered re porters already in a lather of competitive Zeal gasped. Gascon added ominously a and we will find  few hours later the manhunt played out on millions of television screens a in equal parts police Chase vip motorcade and demented Victory Lap. A White Ford Bronco driven by Cowlings rolled at leisurely Speed across 60 Miles of sprawling freeway mostly cleared of Rush hour traffic. More than a dozen news and police helicopters flying in formation like some urbanized apocalypse now and a Phalanx of patrol cars followed at a cautious distance. Inside the truck Simpson held a gun to his head and told authorities on his cellular phone that head kill himself unless he got to see his Mother. Spectators jammed the overpasses and frontage roads. A go .�?� signs popped up a grotesque parody of his Airport dashes for Hertz. Old football friends horrified by what they were watching called la. Television and radio stations beseeching him to give up. A i love you my Mother loves you a said a weeping Vince Evans a former University of Southern California quarterback. There was Good reason to think . Was preparing to die. His lawyer said he was suicidal. And a note he left behind read to reporters earlier that Day by an old College buddy sounded like nothing so much As a sad Farewell. 1 in a scant Handwritten 550 words Simpson professed love for the dead sex Wile he d once battered insisted he Hadnot killed her and hinted broadly that he planned to kill himself. A Don t fed Sony for me a it said. Quot in be had a great life great friends. Please think of the real , and not   the end of his run was the cursed driveway of his $5 million Tudor style mansion in Brentwood. His surrender put an end to 7he  of the  atmosphere building in the streets. And it set the stage for a Long and difficult Odyssey through the California court system one that May be played for mortal stakes Simpson was charged with a double murder under special circumstances a a Legal code phrase that allows prosecutors to ask for the death penalty. Simpson was More than another storybook american Success a kid with his legs bowed by rickets who ascended from poverty in a raw san Francisco neighbourhood to a legendary football career and a Fortune in show business orenthal James Simpson was the prototype of the modern athlete As total package a a record shattering running Back with a Luminous personal Charm that attracted advertisers and film producers by the limousine full. Before magic before to before Michael and the Shaw there was the juice. While other great players faded from View As memories of their competitive feats slipped into the past. . Simpson sustained a lasting Bond with his Public. A a in the 1900s and 70s, when african american athletes were cheered on the Field but were largely invisible in the work of big Money commercial in of. Simpson and i s sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson help celebrate the opening of new York s Varicy Davidson cafe last october. Left Ronald Goldman in a 1991 California department of motor vehicles photo. Do sements Simpson was the trailblazing exception. His genial race Neutral style went Down easily with White audiences As he sprinted for Hertz and finessed his Way through a string of lightweight movie comedies and ave nut r is. A Hertz told me in All their surveys that i was col Orles Simpson told an interviewer in 1992. He was aging with an uncommon Grace that seemed destined to place him in an elite Circle of sports figures like Palmer and Dimaggio but he was a polished hero with oddly jagged edges not in Plain View. Simpsons enduring celebrity and ingratiating personal style diverted attention from two failed marriages the accidental drowning of an infant daughter and a wife beating charge that ended in a 1989 Misdemeanour plea. Said one colleague at Abc where Simpson worked As an nil and College analyst a i Only see juice with a big smile on his  but that illusion slipped away in stunning fashion the week before last. Even in a country grown accustomed to witnessing a and reveling in a the deluding of its heroes Simpsons six Day descent from sports myth to murder suspect to fugitive was a bewildering National drama. In what seemed like a heartbeat a figure millions of africans thought they somehow knew on a personal level metamorphosed into a stranger whose Fame obscured a sometimes violent and obsessive personal life. His Story is certain to kindle a new National debate about Domestic violence and the Legal systems failure to protect battered spouses. The june 12 murders brought a brutal end to a turbulent relationship. Nicole Brown was 18 years old when she met Simpson in 1977. Homecoming Queen at Dana Hills High school in Dana Point she worked part time after graduation As a waitress at the Daisy a Beverly Hills nightclub. Within a year they were living together. Simpson then 30, had hit a Low ebb. Injuries were beginning to Dull the skills that had allowed him to gain 2,003 Yards Rushing in 1973, then a single season record. The Buffalo Bills his professional Home since 1969, were about to Trade him to the san Francisco Page 4 sunday june 26, 1934