PADUCAH DAILY NEWS Paducah, KY February 7, 1877 ____________________ THE BLYTHE MURDER. __________ A MAN NAMED SIMPSON SUSPECTED OF THE MURDER AND IS ARRESTED. __________ MISSING ARTICLES BELONGING TO BLYTHE ARE FOUND ON HIS PERSON. __________ THE PRISONER IS LOCKED IN JAIL AWAITING PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. We learn from parties who left Calloway County yesterday that a man by the name of Simpson is now under arrest for the murder of Zack Blythe last Thursday night. He had been at the store of Blythe several times during the day, and had been seen there that night. Suspicion pointed to him and he was accordingly arrested and searched. The officers found in his possession $300 in money, a pistol belonging to Mr. Blythe and a suit of clothes that came from Blythe's store. Simpson is reported to be a trifling, drinking kind of a man who professes to farm it about two miles west of Linn Grove, where the murder was committed. He was a man of no means, and the possession of $300, in connection with the articles above named, are considered pretty strong circumstantial evidence against him. It seems to have been known in the neighborhood that Mr. Blythe was making collections in order to increase his stock $4,000 in the bank at Mayfield. He had paid $3,000 the week before, and on Monday before the murder (which occurred on Thursday) Mr. Hale went out to receive from him the other $1,000. Blythe took a roll of money out of one of his pockets and after counting and finding there was but little over $300 in the roll he returned it and took from another pocket a roll, from which he counted and paid to Mr. Hale $1,000. It is supposed that Simpson was under the impression that Blythe had not yet been paid ever the $4,000 to the bank, and that he calculated on getting the whole amount. The $300 found on Simpson was no doubt obtained from the pocket of Mr. B. as his safe had not been opened. Considerable excitement is manifested in this section of country near the scene of the murder. The prisoner at last accounts was in jail awaiting a preliminary examination.