The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-29
Murdered BY Their
Father to Get Insurance.
IS Charge Against Fudge
The Son Tells How He
Was Sent Away on
Long Errands.
CHILDREN LIKED
BY EVERYBODY
Neglected and Beaten by the
Father, Who Drank,
is Statement.

Bascom Fudge, the eight-year-old
son, told the reporter how he had
been kept away from the house. His
story is corroborated by what Mrs.
F. E. Harrington, 1914 Jordan street,
said. Bascom is a manly little
fellow, fair-haired as a Morse god,
and his blue eyes look one fearlessly
in the face. .~.
Was the deed done in the morning?
And did Fudge send the boy away in
the afternoon so he could find out
for sure if his babies were dead, and
if it was necessary finish the job?
"Paw, he sent me to sell a plane
and Bit" said Bascom, "and l went
down to Aunt Etta's, and it. was early
in the morning. Paw he stayed to the
house, and it was after breakfast and
Tennie had made the breakfast N her
nightgown.
'Paw he met me down the road a
little piece, and him and me we walk
ed on to town a little ways, and Paw
says to me, You wait here, Bascom,
cause I'm going back to put the dog
up
"He got back in little while, and
we went to town.
eve came back in the evening and
Paw told me to go to Aunt Etta's.
didn't go in our house yard and
Paw was standing near the gate. I
went to Aunt Etta's, but Tennie and
Tootsie weren't there, and 1 played
around a little and came back
and Paw was setting on the steps, and
he told me to 30 to Bayview, but
they wasn't there; and when got
back Paw put me through the win
dow and we found Tootsie and Ten
ME. And I went and told Aunt Fits. !"
| The Aunt Eta referred to is Mrs.
F. E. Harrington, of 1914 Jordan
street. She is no relation to the
children; her husband and the hus-
band of Mrs. Beatrice Harrington, the
children's maternal aunt, are broth
els Mrs. Beatrice Harrington re-
Gently left the Fudge home and went
to McDavid 10 live.
Had Never Handled the Gun.
The gun that shattered the tender
lives was a present to Bascom from
former employer of his fathers in
Nashville, the little fellow said. Nei-
Their of his sisters had ever fired the
weapon or handled it, he said.
The Mothers Death.
Photographs show that Bascom's
mother was a very handsome woman
She died in Nashville last January
from poison, and the theory was that
she suicided. Her life was insured
in one thousand dollars to her hus-
band, who is now charged with the
: murder of his two beautiful CIR
babies. Bascom told of his mothers
death as follows:
) "Maw was standing at the kitchen
stove getting breakfast. Paw anC
/ me went down the street. Paw haC
some business. When he got back HI
! stayed down In the yard little while
] and when we come upstairs Nav wa
{ lying acrost the bed screaming ant
; rolling. Nav died in a little while.
A Heavy Drinker.
1t was Mrs. f. E. Harrington VIII
told of Judges drinking. 'He dranI
up everything he had," was the wa,
she expressed it. She also said tina
Mrs. Beatrice Herrington-the chill
dren's Aunt Be on the mothers side
who is so bitterly arraigned in IN
three notes, had neglected and mis-
treated the poor little girls.
Mean Treatment.
Bascom tells how he was felled wit
blow of the fist not very long age
and grim cat-o-nine tails, brough
! from Nashville by the children
: father, is eloquent suggestion of beat
ings and lashings such as one read
? of in nihilistic books about Russia.
"Bascom came over Tuesday morn
: ing before six o'clock" said Mrs. Hel
}. rington, "to sell some tools, a brac
n and bit, believe. Mr.. Herringto
5 leaves for work at six. Well, he Civ
). him the quarter, and Bascom wer
+ away.
= THAT evening Bascom came bac
at little after 8 o'clock and said hi
S Paw wanted to know If Tennie an
It Tootsie was here. Tootsie is what /
v called the youngest one, Ethel.
. said no, and he played around a lit
: while and went on back. SomewheI
! about o'clock he come to the BAG
! fence and said, Aunt Eta, Aul
Eta calling me.
Il didn't pay much attention. b