The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-30

lying on her fathers Bed, when he
went cut. The door was open. When
he got back he went up on the gal
lery and gave the father the quarter. |
The father had no coat on. Tae doors !
were open, and he
Did Not See His Sisters.
His father then told him to go on,
saying he would come when he put
his coat on. Bascom did not enter
the house at all. he said, but the door
was open, and the cot where he had
seen Tennie was near the door.
When he and his father got back
in the afternoon at about 8 o'clock,
his father pulled his coat off, hung
it. on the banisters, and sat on the
steps without trying to open the door.
He then sent Bascom over to Mrs
Herrington's to look for his sisters.
When Bascom came back, his father
met him little way down the road,
and sent him to Bayview to hunt for
the girls. 81 came back" said Bas-
com, "and he met me down the road
/ again. We came in the yard. He
pulled the screen down and put me
in the window, and opened the door,
and he went in and opened the other
door. Both doors were
Locked on the Inside.
! And the key was on the inside. I
stayed at the door and papa went
back and found them. He said,
Come here, Bascom.' Then he said,
Now, what are we going to do and
l said, 4 don't know"
Bascom on cross examination,
stated that his sisters had never han
died the gun. He also said that his
father had
Loaded the Gun Sunday.
Bascom said also that when his
father came out of the house in the
morning he did not lock the door,
and the door was never locked.
Insurance Paid Up.
James Geralds, for the Metropoli-
tan Insurance company, stated that
the policies of both the children were
paid up to July 8. They were trans
ferred from the Nashville Office. The
policy of the younger girl was for
$S5, of the older for S240, being a
straight life industrial policy, which
increased in value every year.
r. FL. Ray,
Employed in a service club, stated
that Fudge drank. He also said that
he got Fudge a Job, which he seemed
badly in need of, on the morning of
the killing. He asked Fudge why
he did not go out to the yard right
away, and Fudge replied that he
would wait until after dinner, because
he couldn't make but half day any
way. After dinner when Fudge did
) not go, Ray stated that Fudge did
not give definite answer when he
asked the man why he did not go and
take the position offered.
Gnn Not Kept Loaded.
, Clinton Mcconnell, q young boy,
stated that he was a playmate of
the Fudge children, and often was
. at their house. He had handled the
gun, which stood against the wall in
the fathers room. The gun was not
kept loaded, he stated.
In view of Baseom Judges testi-
i mony that he saw his father load the
gun Sunday, Clinton was asked par
ticularly on this point, and he in
J sisted that when he unbreached the
! gun, in the past, Fudge being pres
, ent, it was not loaded.
j Fudge Refuses to Talk.
: As the jury wished to question
t Fudge, the prisoner, Judge johnson
/ conducted them to the county Jail
. Fudge was brought out, and after
} being warned that anything he said
: might be used against him, he said
: Il prefer not to make any state.
+ ment until the trial"
Several jurymen tried to get him