The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-09-16
man OF MYSTERY
WAS TOBIAS HUDSON
Mrs. Hudson Tells Why She Kill
ed Her Husband.
SAYS he THREATENED her LIFE.
Says That When She Married Him
She Knew Nothing About Him
Eva Workman, Who Aroused the
Jealousy Of Mrs. Hudson, Declares
That She Married Hudson at Ocean
City.

I Salisbury, Nd. Especially Mrs. Eliza
beth Ann Hudson, who shot and killed
her husband, Tobias Hudson, in the Office
of the States Attorney here, is not now
the cool and self-possessed woman she
was shortly after the tragedy. The deep
circles about her eyes and the nervous
witch of her mouth as she speaks betray
the great nervous strain under which she
is laboring.
Eyes, of course, / am sorry killed my
husband" she said when interviewed in
the Jail. II loved him. How would you
like to see one you loved better than your
fife, one for whom you would willingly
lay down your own life, dead and at your
own hands?" Walking up to the bars of
her narrow cell, Mrs. Hudson grasped
them in her nervousness as she talked.
When I married Tobias Hudson l had
already been married twice before, and
for the first time in my life real hap
piness came to me. j was 80 years Of
age and Mr.. Hudson was 10 years older
when we were married. He came to
Cambridge from Baltimore, he told me.
Whether he has any relatives / don't
know, and he would never talk to me
along that line. When we were first
married we lived happily for time, but
soon stories came to my ears Of his at
tention to other women. And then he
commenced leaving me for weeks at a
time, and, returning, would give me no
satisfaction as to where he had been.
About a year ago he left and did not
return. He brought suit for divorce in
the Circuit Court of Dorchester county,
but lost his case.
Says He Threatened Her Life.
Last Wednesday, when l came to
Salisbury, / purposely disguised myself
|. in deep mourning. did this because
Mr.. Hudson had threatened to kill me,
and l feared he would do SO if he met
me on the street. After he was arrested
and held under bond he promised me to
return to me again, and this was what /
most ardently desired was longing
for him and ready to receive him back
with open arms. But much as / loved
him could not trust him, and when
saw him Thursday night riding with
that woman / knew his promise would
mot be kept.
II wanted to see him again and try
to persuade him back to me and / asked
Mr.. Bailey to get him for me. When
he came and we were talking / realized
that had lost him. He told me the
Workman woman had left town, and /
told him of seeing them riding together
the night before. | asked him to let me
have some money and he said he had
none. I reminded him of the $3.50 bond
which had been returned to him and he
got up and said:
"'Well, if that's all you wanted with
me, | will go. There are not enough
police in Salisbury to arrest me again.
He arose and reached for his hat and
cane, which were lying on top of the
iron safe. / saw him getting ready to
go and leave me and knew it was for
good. My grief and my loneliness over
came me. drew the revolver and fred.
Sorrow and sadness are the lot of man
kind and l have had my share. My hus-
band told me once that he had killed
man up in Western Maryland"
The whereabouts of Eva Workman are
still unknown. It was reported here that
Hudson's life was insured in her favor
for $4,000, but no veriication of this
could be obtained.
The case against Mrs Hudson will be
tried at the September term of court, be-
ginning on September 20. 1t is expected
that the court will assign counsel to con-
duct the prosecution, Mr.. Bailey being
an important witness.