The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-08

of the police, and that is suspicion O.
another man in the case, based on tbs
Dand and wife. The officers are seek
! ing to run down this possible clev
while locking for loose end to the
skein o. mystery.
Investigation has developed the fac
that the last separation of the Hud-
sons, on Memorial day, was brought
| about. By Hudson's unexpected return
| nome, when he found a photographer
there, taking picture of the house
He rem Cnstrated with Mrs. Hudson
| declaring they coulC not afford the pic
lures, and the photographer went
| away Later in the day Hudson went
! off and did not return home until Sun
day.
The bodies of Hudson and Mrs. Hud-
son were found on the bed, covered
with comforter They had been kill
ed evi7ertly with coal pick-possibly
the sharp point~of an axe or hatchet.
Hudson vas mutilated beyond recog-
milton. tie left side of his face being
torn away and a dozen other blows
having rendered his head nothing
more than a bloody mass. -.5-a1-
Woman's Head Gashed by Blows.
What was perhaps the first blow re-
ceived by Mrs. Hudson and one which
would nave caused instant death, was
over Tie left temple, leaving cash
three inches long and taperlng from
half an inch to an inch in width. A
blow above the eyes had made deep
cash acr.ss the forehead, and another
over the right eye, left cash two and
one-haIf inches long. Another blow
over tn, left eye had ranged down
ward, Souging out the eye.
The HudsonS were last seen alive
about $50 p. m. Wednesday, by Mrs.
William Pryor. They were sitting on
their front porch, when a stranger, of
medium height and wearing a dark
suit ami a straw sailor hat with a
black band, went up to the porch and
said that if they. had no objections he
would like to talk to them for a few
minutes. Hudson uShered the man
into thu mouse.
When Mrs. Pryor retired at 10
o'clock. she had seen no more of the
Hudsons and their house was in dark
ness.
Murderer Carried Away Weapon Used.
Another point of similarity between
the Hudson murder and the crimes at
tributed to the axe murderer, is that
an axe was found in the kitchen of the
Hudson home. This axe was said by
the neighbors to have belonged to the
Hudsons and bore no evidence of hav-
ing been used in the crime.
However, in other crimes of the axe
murderer, the weapon used has been
found in the house, the blood cleaned |
from it and with no indication that it |
had been used. !
From the only traces which the {
murderer left, revealing the plan of |
Inc tie pOllC6 QSCldT6 ne ell
tered the house by an east window,
he screen of which was removed and
had been leaned against the house.
This window led to an unused bed
'oom, through which he must have
1assed to the scantily furnished din
ng room, through the front room and
rom there into the bedroom occupied
w the Hudsons. The shades to both
windows in their room were drawn.
Woman Tells of Family Affairs.
Mrs. Hudson had discussed her mat
imonial affairs with the neighborS
nd it was through what she had told
hem that the only possible clue thus
ar discovered has been found. The
Iudsons came to Paola from Massil-
on, o., where they were married on
Apri1 "a, 1910. Hudson then lived in
North Industry, o.
They came to Paola on April TO-
ince which time he has been employed
S a section hand on the M. K. & I.
Following the separation on Memo
ial day, Mrs. Hudson f3arnisheed her
usband's wages of $4S a month caus-
1g him to lose his place. He worked
fter that tin1+' in the Katy coal chutes.
'ryor Home Robbed Night of Murder.
Another clue to the murderer may
evelop from the robbery of the Pryor
cme on the same night. Pryor, who I
-orks at night, returned from his {
-ork yesterday morning at O'Clock
no IOunQ MIS-. Pryor ana The Two chill |
rem unconscious and detected fumes
E chloroform in the house. The house !
ad been robbed. The robber had en-
red the Pryor house at window ex- :
city opposite that through which the !
murderer is believed to have entered !
lie Hudson home.
F. NJ. Chandler, sheriff of Miami
2unty; w D. Young, his deputy; E. J. =
herrell, coroner, and Thomas Ash
augh, chief of police, worked all night T
] the case. {
Relatives of the dead couple, in Mas +
lion, Ohio, have wired requests that f
le bodies be shipped to them. How f
Fer, the coroner's inquest has been t
definitely continued and it is not t
-obable the bodies can be shipped V
tier it has been concluded. e
Huge Man the Slayer.
Imagine a huge man tn a Swedish Q
laped face and head, loosely built, a
ide brimmed straw hat pulled down
his ears, wearing a lark blue suit =
Id you have imagined a man the au- 9
orities of Paola and Miami county n
y is the murderer of Rollin Hudson .
Id Mrs. Anna Hudson, whose bodies
ere found late Thursday afternoon. t.
The police searched the place of the e
ime for clews and particularly for t.
e instrument of the double murder. 81
leories are advanced by the sheriff's
flee which make it out everything
Om a maui to the original idea-a
al pick. They judge from the wounds &c
the heads of the two victims.
Thursday morning Hudson was to go
work on his first permanent job in
lola, as a section hand. But he did -
t report; and, after season of Curl
8 inquiry by the women of the neigh ~
rhood, a man, Herman Heintz a re- -.
ed contractor, found the bodies. 1t IL
rs certain, the examining physicians ~
id, the crime had been committed =,
the night before-Wednesd A ~
ndred theories were advanced, rob- -
ry, revenge and the like, all doubt 10
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