Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-09-21

A statement was made late yester-
day afternoon to The Times-Recorder
by Attorney ]. B. Hudson, who will be
one of the attorneys for Maud Chill
%ders in the hearing that is scheduled
to occur at Leesburg this morning ut
o'clock in response to the warrant
recently sworn out, charging Childers
with the murder of his wife, that the
attorneys for the defense will demand
hearing this morning.
The party which carried Maud Chill
ders down to Leesburg yesterday to
place him in the Lee county Jail and
which consisted of the prisoner, his
brother Solicitor Zach Childers, Mr..
w. w. Dykes and Sheriff S. B. Smith,
of Lee county, did not return to Am
ericus until late yesterday afternoon,
after having made the trip with the
prisoner safely.
Mr. Hudson said that as soon as the
party reached Leesburg, he sought out
Messrs. Dudley ]. Ragan and c. H.
Beazley, attorneys for the prosecu-
ton, and asked them to fix upon theI
hour of o'clock today for the hearing
50 that it might occur at once. This.
according Mr.. Hudson, they refused
to do, so that he requested that they
fix some other time for the hearing
and to make it as early as possible.
When no date was fixed by the attor-
neys for the prosecution, Mr.. Hudson
said that he then proceeded to have
Sheriff Smith make out a list of witt
nesses for the defense and to have
them served with subpoenas to appear
~for the hearing at 8 o'clock today,
thus complying with legal require
ments for the trial, so far as the de-
fense was concerned.
1t was further stated by Mr.. Hud~
son that up to the time when the Am
ericus party left Leesburg, no stems
had been taken by the prosecution 'o|
subpoena any witnesses on their side
of the hearing. Request was made OIL
Judge H. L. Long, who presided at the
preliminary trial of Kennedy, to pre-
side at that of Childers, also. Judge
Long declined to do so in view OF the
fact he had presided at the previous
W hHI
counsel for both the prosecution and
the defense to ask Justice of the Peace
John M. Hines, a we'll known magls-
trate of Lee county, to preside. JUS
tiae Hines consented to do so, in event
it is possible for him to be present n
Leesburg today. 1t is very likely,
then, that Justice Hines will preside,
as the attorneys for the defense have
refused to allow the case to be heard
before Justice of the Peace D. G. Ave
ra, of Smithville, before whom the
warrant was sworn out.
The counsel for Childers in the hear
ing will be Attorneys j. B. Hudson
of AmeTicus, and Ware G. Martin, OF
Leesburg. Attorneys c. H. Beazley
and Dudley j. Ragan, of Leesburg'
have been retained by w. H. Kennedy
the father of Robert Kennery, VINO had
the warrant for the arrest of Child
ers sworn out. The preliminary hear
ing, then, if it is held today, win prop
II ably be as hotly contested as the form-
n sr one. Detective Moore, who mas Deeh
4 working on the case for some tlme' -
reported to have gathered the evidence
upon which the prosecution Will base
its case in endeavoring to have Chill
ders bound over for trial in the SUI
pd4Ior court of Lee county, just as
was true in the case of Kennedy. II
will be the effort of the attorneys Tor
Childers to force hearing of the mat
ter today, as they claimed they have
"a endeavored to give the other side due