The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-04-21
AGAINST FUDGE
Legal Tits Featured Third
Day of Life-Fight of Man
Charged With Murder.
SUICIDE, THEORY
| APPEARS SHAKEN
Bascom on the Stand Three
Hours-Mrs. Herrington's
Testimony Sensational.

For ten hours yesterday the attor-
neys for the state and for the de-
Tense in the Fudge murder trial
toiled and sweated with witnesses
while a crowded court room listened
with intense interest that was even
straining at times, smiling at hui
Eorous remarks and occurrences or
keeping dead quiet as witnesses gave
testimony that may send E. j. Fudge
to the gallows.
BascOm On Stand.
Bascom Fudge, brave, plucky little
lad that he is, sat in the witness chair
for two hours answering with a frank
mo sir" or Eyes sir" to the questions
fired thick and fast at him by the
lawyers. Though cross examined
closely and at great length little Bas-
com never faltered in his testimony,
sometimes he would slip little on
the time of day that certain things
happened on the fateful June 81 of a
year ago, he never confused the
main facts, and gave them out, look
ing square at the attorney with his
frank blue. eyes. At the request of
the attorney for the defense, Bas-
com got down on the floor in front of
the Jury and assumed the position
that he saw his little sister Ethel in
when she was found dead. Finally at
the end of strenuous two hours,
Bascom was told he could go for the
, day and he snatched up his cap and
away he went-free-to play.
The states attorney read the notes
| or letters that little Tenney and
Ethel are said to have left behind
| them and on which the defense will
| attempt to prove the suicide theory
| The notes were passed over to the
men on the jury, who gave them a
critical examination with a magnify
ing glass.
Dead Girls Letters.
Mrs. Eta Harrington was prob.
! ably the most sensational witness oil
/ the day. Mrs. Harrington freely adj
mitted that she had feeling" against
| Fudge and that she wanted to see
him punished. When questioned by
| Mr.. Stokes if she had had any feel
ing against Fudge before the killing
Of the two little girls, she said no
that her feeling against him came
only after the murder. When asked
if Fudge showed any signs of grie!
at the death of his daughters iIrs
Harrington said, "He made fuss like
he was trying to cry, but he didn'
succeed and he didn't act like a mar
that was really hurt"
! Say Fudge Didn't Grieve.
| J. M. Weaver was another sta
!.witness for the state. The theor!
Of the defense that Tenney, the eide,
of the two, first killed Ethel ant
then suicided was shaken by Mr.
Weaver when he stated that he ex
| amined the bodies of the girls shortl,
after they were found dead and tina
Ethel, the younger sister, was warn
and limp, and that Tenney, the eide
sister, was cold and stiff. Mr.. Wea
yer also stated that what grief Fudg
showed at the death of his daughter
was not real grief, but very imper
feet imitation. The notes left by tn
little girls were brought into tn
testimony by Mr.. Weaver very niue
! against Mr.. Fudge, stating tina
Fudge seemed over anxious to sho1
the book containing the notes to ev
, erybody that came into the house.
Lawyers Warm to Work.
Questioning and discussion by tn
lawyers got very warm, if not no
, while Mr.. Weaver was on the stant
: The defense objected strenuously t
several questions put to the witnes
by the prosecution and Judge Camp
bell acted as mediator frequently, tn
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