Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-16
TWOBOYSHAlN
BY P-FATHER,
MOTHER ADMITS
Accused Man Now Held
In Macon Jail For
Safety

Glen Moore hudson TO the murder
this week of his two step-sons Rob
ert and Isaiah Temple, aged 10 and
years respectively, following the
confession of their mother, who il
his wife, in Jail here yesterday, that
he killed them, is hourly expected.
Hudson was taken to Macon yester
day for safekeeping followln her con-
fession and before news of the de-
! velopment became publicly known.
Hudson was reported from Macon
as having acted nervously and queer
when told of the confession, but per-
sisted in denying his guilt. While
still held here Hudson spent Thurs
| day afternoon reading from the Bible,
and was still very nervous and very
| unwilling to discuss the case with the
officers. When an acquaintance
from Alabama visited him at the Jail
Thursday and asked him what he
was charged with, it is said that he
was barely able to answer, his throat
filling up and almost choking him.
Feared to Confess
Mrs. Hudson made her confession
to former Sheriff L. E. Black, of
Marty county, who now makes his
home in Albany. Mr.. Black knew
| the women while they both lived at
Blakely, and has known her and her
| family since she was child. She told
Mr.. Black, he says, that she would
have made a clean statement of the
whole tragic story as soon as the
| murders occurred had she not been
afraid of death at the hands of her
husband, and remained silent after
| both had been placed in jail for fear
that he would succeed in carrying
out his threat to have some one els4
| kill her if he were placed where ne
| could not do it.
The confession Mrs. Hudson is al
legged to have made to Mr.. Black fix
ed the time of the murder of the
two little children at about O'clock
Tuesday morning, which comedies
with the testimony of several witt
nesses in the neighborhood who said
they heard pistol shots in the direc-
ton of the Hudson home about that
hour.
Mrs hudson, according to the
story, had left the house with her
husband to drive to town, where she
| had secured a position with a local
candy factory. 1t was to be her first
| day of work in this new job. The
wagon stood outside, hitched to a
mule ready to take them to town,
when Hudson, she says, told her that
/ he had to go back into the house for
something and for her to go across
the road to the stable lot and wait
for him there. She asked HIM why
it was necessary for her to go to the
lot, and he replied, she says, by
threatening to kill her if she did not
shut her mouth and do as he told her.
When she reached the lot, the wo-
mans story goes, she heard the little
boys screaming, indicating to her
mothers intuition that they were be-
ing beaten. She ran in the direction
Of the house, and before she reached
| there she heard three shots and the
| screams ceased.
Threatened Her Life.
| Her husband came out of the
| house, she says, and she frantically
accused him of killing her little boys.
TO her queries as to what had hap
pened to the boys she said he re-
piled: IT'S all right about what hap
pened to them; if you don't keep
/ your d mouth shut I'll kill you,
and if they put me where | can't kill
you, I'll have you killed"
All the way on the two-nile drive
to town, Mrs. Hudson says, her nus
| band repeated his threats to kill her
or have some one else kill her of she
opened her mouth against him, and
after he was placed in jail she fear
ed that his brother would kill her if
| she told what she knew, she IS alleg-
| ed to have said. Mrs. Hudson said
| she was so nervous when she went to
| work she could not understand in
structicns given her by her new en-
polyers, and actually forgot to count
This statement Of the woman was
corroborated by R. f. Mccormack,
of the Mills-Mc Cormack Candy COM
pany, who says he thought her in
ability to count was due to illiteracy,
but that he did not observe any evil
dence of nervousness otherwise on
her part.
Mrs. Hudson said that before she
and her husband left the house on
the tragic morning, both of them had
cautioned the little boys not to touch
| either of the two watermelons that
were in the house under the ted.
Those who hold to the theory that
the woman's story is true, in sub
stance, and that Hudson killed the
boys in fit of anger, believe he took
last look before leaving for Gown
and found that the two boys had dis
obeyed their orders and were cut
ting one of the melons on the back
/ porch.
He then ordered his wife to 80 to
the lot, according to this theory, and
went into the house to beat the chill
dren for cutting the melons, and his
anger becoming uncomfortable, .gou
his pistol from between the mattress