Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-20
ACCUSATION BY
HUSBAND A lie,
MRS. HUDSON
Wife Saws 1t Shows He Is
Weakening And Will
Confess


Tarver, sheriff of Dougherty coun-
ty, charging his wife, Mrs. Bennie
Hudson, who is held in the Dough
erty county Jail here, with the muir
der of Robert and Isaiah Temple,
her children was characterized as a
lie by Mrs. Hudson when she was
confronted with it today.
Hudson made a statement yester
day in Macon, where he was Nshad
for safety after his wife told the al
legged details of the killing to L. E.
LACK here last Friday charging Hud-
son with the crime Tuesday morning
of last week, in which he SAID s1ac
Mrs. Hudson killed the children and
confessed it to him on their way to
Albany.
Mrs. Hudson declared that her
husbands statement was evidence to
her that he is weakening and that
he will finally make a tull confes-
sion Of the crime she says he COM
mitted She admitted that Hudson did
go to i pasture on the place the
morning of the ki..ng and that ne
took the older boy with him, but she
asserted that he returned to the house
and entered it before they made
preparations to leave for Albany.
After Hudsonss return from the
pasture she declared they went to
the front of the house to get into the
wagon in which they were coming to
Albany Hudson, however, ordered
her to go to the barn across the
street from the house and he him
self returned to the house and com
mitted the crime while she was across
the road at the barn in fear of her
life because of violent threats Hud-
son had made if she did not go, she
sad.
Story Unswerved
Officers and others who have talk
ed with Mrs. Hudson since she was
informed of her husbands accusa-
ton declare that she has not swerved
on particle from the essential details
of the story she told Mr.. Black last
Friday. She told Sheriff Tarver this
morning, he said, that she had told
the story to Mr.. Black just as tt hap
pened and did not propose to lie
about it, although she admitted that
she lied when she was first arrest
ed. She said, however, that this was
because she knew none of the Of
ficers and was practically stranger
in Albany, but that just as soon as
she got an opportunity to talk with
Mr.. Black whom she had known
since she was child she decided to
tell it all. She talked with Mr..
Black several times, however, be-
fore she finally told him that Hud-
son killed the children.
Sheriff Tarver expressed conf
dence this morning that Hudson will
finally make full confession of the
crime with which he is charged. He
declared that the prisoner exhibit
ed signs C. great nervousness when
he was talking yesterday and became
so upset at time that he would find
difficulty n making replies to ques-
tions that sere put to him.
Hudson, however, did not tell that
he was afraid of his wife as he was
quoted as saying, Sheriff Tarver as
serted today. He said that Hudson
told him that his wife declared she
would kill him or have him killed if
he told of the mSrder and that they
agreed on the way to town that they
would both keep quiet about it. He
said, too, the sheriff stated, that he
was afraid if he told the officers or
anyone else about the killing that
he would be charged with the crime
and lynched. Hudson declared in
Macon Sunday that he was not afraid
of being lynched
Wife Little Disturbed
Neither he nor his wife knew if the
children We're dead from the pistol
wounds when they left the house, ac-
cording to Hudson's alleged accusa-
ton and even after he returned to
the place, which he said he reached
before the arrival of T. M. Skipper,
who had previously been represented
as reaching there first, he did not go
into the house to investigate, waiting
until Skipper had left the place.
Mrs. Hudson this morning was ap-
parently little disturbed about her
husbands accusation and seemed to
worry little about her own fate. She
was still speaking of the time when
get out of here" and making plans
for preserving the memory of her
murdered children. She was seeking
to locate photograph of her young
est child with view to having sew
eral copies of it made, but declared
that she did not want to see it until
she is freed from Jail, as she did not
want to associate his memory with
her own experience in jail.
She had letters written to friends
who possibly had copies of the photo
graph, but asked Deputy Sheriff A. J..
benson not to give them to her if
| they come until she is out Of jail.
Tried To Kill Boy Before
That her husband tried to her eld-
est boy, Robert, about two months
Iago, is additional charge made by
| Mrs. Hudson following her recent ac.
cusation that he was the oIia whc
| killed both boys, Robert and Isaiah