The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-10-21
Evidence All In. Argument
This Morning, Decision
Tonight, Maybe.
MANS NAILPRINT
ON GIRLS NOSE
Woman in Case Wrote
Note Found in Bottle,
Established.


Established.
A little black book may send e. j.
Fudge to the gallows. It doesn't look
like book of doom, this little thing
IF morocco, filed with figures and adj
dresses. 1t would cost about a quar-
ter, new, but it may be the price Of
human life. 1t has no value now,
being all written up, but it may be
the clue to hideous guilt.
THE BOOK OF FATE.
/, is Fudge's book-his old account
hook, used, he says, three years ago
when he was in the transfer business.
in Nashville. In it there are lot of
figures-among them, As; and these
as, says the prosecution, are identical
with the as in the "June "a" of the
notes found in the book after the chill
dren's death.
I THE CHANGED DATE.
The Us in the Jur.e "a were written
over an erasure by a different hand.
according to handwriting expert.
If Fudge changed the dates of the
note, he killed his children, is the
theory.
SENSATION DEVELOPS.
For nearly ten hours the trial
which has come TO occupy public at
tention almost to the exclusion of
4 everything else, proceeded yesterday,
after eight hours the day before. Not
until twenty minutes after eleven did
the judge finally cal an adjourn
men until the morning. Yet so In
terested was everybody that they
hardly noted the fight Of time, nor
felt fatigue. The court was crowded
throughout the day
i THE NOTE IN THE BOTTLE.
The promised sensation was sprung
when the Munday woman was identi-
fed as having written the note found
in bottle a couple of days after the
tragedy, by which it was attempted to
divert suspicion from Fudge. Later
testimony brought out intimate rela-
tons between Fudge and the woman
IN the case, whom, it was stated, he
had wanted to marry.
SUICIDE IMPOSSIBLE.
+ Another sensation was when med.
cal testimony established beyond per-
adventure the impossibility of the
| suicide theory, and described a scar
On Tennie's nose as having been un-
rnistakably made by the finger nail
of an adult--probably man.
Fudge seemed shaken at two points
during the testimony. but the rest of
the time was perfectly calm, and
when he was on the stand. was entire
ly self possessed.
i The evidence is all in. One attornev
for the defense has spoken. Argu-
ment for the prosecution will con-
tinue this morning at $3.50, and the
defense win reply, after which the
ease viii be given to the jury.
A decision will probably be reached
this afternoon.
The testimony follows:
THE DAY IN DETAIL.
Picture in the Trunk.
Seeking to establish still stronger
the relations between z. j. Fudge
and BERTHE Monday, the state, by the
testimony of Coroner johnson, sum
moned again, and Pat Harrington,
husband of Mrs. Beatrice Harrington,
proved that the trunk--in which the
picture of the Monday woman was
| f~nr,d had 49, I,a-x. 4nx..x.<..ol ..-s21.
until after Coroner Johnson opened it
with Judges own keys the next morn
ing. The Monday woman later in the
day admitted having given Fudge the
| said picture; Fudge admitted having
received it, but did not remember hav-
ing put it in his trunk.
Tennie Died First.
Alvin Largue and James Kelly, en-
ployes at Pou's undertaking parlor,
testified where the bodies of the dead
children were embalmed, testified to
the condition of the body. Mr.. Largue
4 described Tennie's body as being in
! pretty bad fix" it looked like it
had been dead quite while, and NOR
q tification had set in. Death had taken
place in the morning, apparently
: Ethel looked like she hadn't been
dead quite go long" She was cold, but
P Ember
1t was Mr.. Largue who found the
box of % calibre cartridges on a sill
in the surface closet, when he visited
: the premises the Sunday following
q the tragedy. These cartridges, Fudge
later identified as having purchased.