Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-13
PURSE ISCIVEN
FREED MOTHER
OF SLAIN BOYS
Mrs. Hudson Smiles When Ac
quilted And Thanks Her
Attorneys
SEEKS TO START OVER AND
LEAVE OLD LIFE BEHIND
Plans To Disappear In Noun
tains Of North Carolina And
Tread Narrow Path

ALBANY, Oct. 13.-With purse
made up by sympathetic people to
help her start life anew, Mrs. Bennie
Hudson, acquitted late yesterday af
ternoon Of the murder of her owr
children, for which her husband is
under sentence to hang, today pre-
pared to leave here where she is
known for another part of the coun-
try where she is unknown.
Smiles have been foreign to Mrs.
Hudson's face during the days of
her incarceration, last July II. But
when the verdict of mot guilty. was
sounded the pinched and drawn face
took on a new light, a smile illumin-
cd it and hid many of its burrows,
seeming to tell Of a ponderous bur-
den lifted at last, from shoulders
weary of their load.
Smiling, she shook the hand Of
each juror, thanking each briefly for
his part in her freedom. Smiling,
she thanked her attorneys, and smil-
ing, she walked from the courtroom,
apparently a bit conscious for the
first time that the eyes of every spec
tator in that room were riveted on
her in curiosity to see this woman
who had been charged with taking
the life of her own flesh and blood.
Seeks New Life.
In the sheriff's office, a moment
later, she told reporters of her plans
to avoid forever the scarlet pathway
she had once followed. She seeks to
! leave that life of shame and every
Areminder of it, she says. She wants
TO begin her life anew. She wants
a new environment She wants to go
where she is unknown and where fear
Of bodily harm will not obscess her.
She still expresses fear of her hus-
bands family, the husband who one
week age was convicted Of the crime
Of which she was acquitted and who
is sentenced to hang November 18.
To the Mountains of North Car
olina, far from the scenes of her
past iniquities, this woman, moth
er at A years of age and since then
a confessed peddler of her own body
and soul, will attempt to come back
to live the life, she says, she has al
ways wanted to live. She has been
straight as a die, she says, since that
day last fall when she and Glen Hud-
son satisfied law and conscience by
marriage. And the same strict ten
cts by which she began to live on
that day, she continues, will guide her
from now on to her dying day.
She lis going to take the few
pieces Of clothing she has which once
belonged to Robert and Isaiah, she
declares, to remind her of the baby
prattle.
Can N ever Forget.
Hadn't you better leave those
things behind and forget all about
this atlar?" she was asked.
For get it," she replied. 81 can
never forget those children of mine,
and Pm going to take along their
little clothes to look at when |
get lonesome for them.
Il want to get away up in the
mountains somewhere, far away from
anybody that knows me and knows
anything about me. l want to go
TO work and make living and live
straight and upright life. I've sin
ned enough in this old world, / guess,
and I'm going to live as straight as
the oest of them from now on.
Mrs. Hudson says she has rela.
tives in North Carolina who will take
her in and let her find work She
will not name the tcwn for. which
she will start, declaring that she
wants nobody to know about it, espe.
cially the family of Hudson.
Immediately after her release
spectators and officials began to
make up a purse for her, so that
she can buy few needed articles
OF clothing. "No money, no people,
no children, no nothing, is the way
she expresses her situation, but it
was not at her instance the sub
scription was begun.