The Washington times., 1916-10-22


upon them. the constant hunger that
lack OF food entailed, and the black out
look life had for them as compared
with the heroes and heroines OF the
stories the elder girl was constantly
Each Girl Dead With
Bullet in Heart.
The bare facts set before the jury of
Florida men-home lovers, fathers of
families, alive to ordinary human in
.stincts, all Of them-were these:
= The two golden haired daughters of
sFudge. one not quite eleven and the
other seven years OF age, were found
dead In their home, each with ballet
wound In the heart
Il The woman the father had wanted to
9narry had declared she would not
lnarry a man who had children.
& Two notes In the house. signed by the
spldest child. announcing they had COM
she e Gulf fu shore Jus Just afseS the bodies
were found. announcing that the writer
had killed the children, were in the
-seame handwriting, according to an ex-
slriitted writing the first OF these notes.
= The father, a shiftless, constantly out
network carpenter, was proven TO have
Bhamefully illtreated his children for
-iweeks; to have kept them half starved
ard ill-kempt in a small house In the
aeuburbs of Pensacola, where the two
hirls were reported to have been Ill at
least three days before their bodies were
FOUND. :,
CHASTITY Story, Inhuman
IN Its Coldbloodness.
:, A CHASTITY story, inhuman in its cold
Blooded tragedy. intensely human In
as recital Of selfishness and sheer in
difference to human obstacles in the
way OF accomplishing a desire OF the
xioment, has built this Srinning, skel-
eton into a rounded, perfect semblance
y fact ,hs fitting OF Ss
States Attorney John a. Stokes. assist.
ed by Coroner VIII l.. Johnson. Chief
81 Police Frank d. Sanders and County
P5obation Officer Sam c; r, pdhnney; In
bis cell in the county jail. In his chair
In the prisoners dock in the country
room. lean, contended and-indiffereTt
with the kind of indifference that APP
psiied the spectators. and only lost his
acomposure when a handwriting expert
convinced the jury that the suicide notes
by which he had expected to prove his
were n in 5sSIty fSrg ,wH nth.
4iris, Tennie. and Ethel. and his son,
58ascom. aged nine years, bright eyed.
precocious boy who was the constant
companion Of his father came to Flor
after the death of his second wife, the
Hnother Of his children. Strychnine
poisoninG was the cause OF the death
of Mrs. Fudge on January 1G. The hus-
hand collected insurance in the amount
If $40 on the death OF his wife and
Gust prior to leaving their old home In
Nashville Tenn. also collected S,0oO
Tor the destruction OF his barn by
Moved to Florida
After Death of Wife.
= Fudge was a carpenter by trade and
claims also to have served an enlist
Shent in the U. 8. army. His first wife
1livorced him. he stated and on the
Heath of his second wife he brought
bis family to Florida, settling at first
at Olive, a village seven miles from
Pensacola, where Mrs. Patrick Herring
Hon. a sister Of the late Mrs Fudge.
has been living. Fudge and his little
ones lived with the Herrinstons in
two families moved to this city and
vented a house In a remote and sparse
" section Of the city. The Herrington'
Remained. here until about the first
Ebopt thirty miles north OF Pensacola.
4 Fudge is not bad looking man, about
thirty,,eight years Of age. and very much
IF ladies man." His neighbors say
there was plenty of work to be done and
many Jobs had been offered the man.
Fudge claimed his idleness was caused
by the lack OF opportunity for employ
on his trade. although he sold his tools
One at a time as he needed money.
The two little girls were we'll known in
The neighborhood. Both were golden
haired. bright-eyed. and both were ia
snllisr sights In the neighborhood. Ten
ME, the older. was very fond of reading,
and especially OF stories by Jack Lon
Son; She borrowed az the books she
credited with having a sharp little mind.
and what little housekeeping was done
r. the Fudge home was done under her
direction.
Boy, Bascom, Was His e.
Gathers Constant Companion. -.
The boy Bascom, was a sturdy young
eter who was his fathers constant
shadow. Where the man was, there
would the boy always be found, fishing,
loAfing in saloons or around the docks.
lie was sharp-eyed. precocious child.
The baby of the family was Ethel, Just
seven years old, and pet OF her older
aiBecause Of the fact that Fudge was
Constantly out OF work there Is said to
have been very little food in the larder
Eent to bs ead the sn
man went TO the city every day ostensi-
hly TO hunt work. He took Bascom
aWltn MIN, ana LETT the two little girls
at home. Sometimes they would return
ut nightfall. Sometimes not until late
n the night, and once or twice not until
The early hours of the morning.
sSFudge Is reported to have spent much
of his time in the evenings with wom-
IN; and he Is said to have met one wom-
an. who was introduced as a witness
at the trial as BERTHE Munday. whom he
besought to marry him. The woman, II
- said. would have done so had It not
been for the children. She had beer
heard TO tell Fudge she would not marry
a man with children for her to- bring
= The Munday woman ,herself proved a
most damaging witness. She admitted
authorship of note found in a bottle
floating In Pensacola bay. reading, ~
nm the onS that killed them two little
Children. ] live at Red Bluff. Cues.
Ighat." DR.. Schullhuffer identified the
handwriting with that OF the notes tell
ms of the Suicide" of the two girls.
: She also testified Fudge proposed mar
siage. saying he wanted some one Il
take care OF the children. She said sh,
fefused to marry him on account of thu
children. Fudge's nine-year-old son
ssescom. also proved damaging wit
ness.
While Fudge and his son were ava!
on their excursions to the city tn,