Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-20

plished and that the caseknives were
placed in the children's hands while
they were still warm and the little
fingers pressed down on them to
create the impression that they were
preparinf to eat a melon. The incisicn
IN the melon, when was from the
center to one end, WIS as smooth and
straight as if it had been made by a
razor, whereas the knives held in the
little dead hands were dull ones with
blunt ends.
To Implicate Another.
Asked the purpose of such a
plant" the officers declared it was
an effort to create the impression
that T. NJ. Skipper, to whom Hudson
first announced that he had found
the children murdered, had COM
mitted the crime Skipper, who is an
employee of W. C. Holmon, owner Of
the farm on which Glen Hudson was
a share cropper, visited the place ev-
cry morning to get feed for Holmon's
stables in Albany, fact which Hud-
son knew, the officers say. They
point out that Skipper had accused
someone of invading a watermelon
patch on the place, which belonged
to Skipper, and finding the dead
bodies near watermelon, which Mrs.
Hudson has since admitted came
from Shippers patch, would lend col
or to the belief that Skipper came up
on the boys preparing to eat one OF
his watermelons and became so en-
ragged that ne beat them to the point
that it was necessary to finish the
job of killing them. Hudson, the Of
ficers point out, knew that Skipper
would arrive at the place while he
and Mrs. hudson were IN town. This
would lend weight to the belief that
he killed them in the absence of the
mother and the stepfather, the Off
GERS believe.
Evidence of Alleged "Frane-up'
Evidence CT the attempt to carry
out the frame" on Skipper was
found by the officers in the guarded
staten nts alleged to have been made
by both Hudson and his wife soon
after the murder was discovered tend
ing TO cast suspicion on the owner
of the watermelons, which, the eff
GERS say Hudson believed To4$t# be
more effective than direct accasa-
ton.
7t 9'1~nor is ABSOLUTELY limo
officers, who
to Jae his attitude
the fist ---.g -. been ChaJ OF a
guilty man, since he has passed UP
opportunities that were presented
him for lacking the blame on some
body else; straws that any drown
ing man would grasp. They also as
sert that Rich Marie, the negro who
went with Skipper to the Hudson
farm that fateful morning, corrob-
crates Shippers statement to the eff
feet that he did not enter Hudson
house and that neither of them saw
the children untI Hudson calico
Skipper back and showed him the
dead bodies.
Mrs. Hudson is still maintaining
the truthfulness of the statement she
made to Mr.. Black last Friday, and
when seen by reporter at her cell
in the jail this morning asserted that
her husband, who was taken to the
Bibb county jail last Friday for safe
keeping, had lied when he said she
had nothing to fear from him or any
of his people. ~
The reporter carried to the jail
with him a copy of the Macon Tele-
graph Of yesterday containing an
interview with Glen Hudson. He haC
told Mrs. Hudson yesterday of thu
interview and she expressed desire
to hear it read. The reporter read
the statement in detail to her, at her
request, and listened quietly, except
for slight interruptions by way OF
comment on different details, unit