Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-16
TWOBOYSSLAIN
BY STEP-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
4 years respectively, following the
confession of their mother, who i
his wife, in Jail here yesterday, that
he killed them, is hourly expected.
Hudson was taken to Macon yester-
day for safekeeping following her
confession and before news of the
! development 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 stiq 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.
How to proceed with the prosecu-
ton of Hudson unless he confesses
is a problem for Dougherty county
| officers, inasmuch as wife is not
permitted to testify against her hus-
band in a capital offense in Georgia,
| and vice versa, and she is the only
| witness connecting him with the
| crime.
Feared to Confess.
| M,rr IJ,rJcOn rnaJa hot. nndf
to former Sheriff l.. E. Black, of
Early county, who now makes his
home in Albany. Mr.. Black knew
the women while they both lived at
Blakely, and has know 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 else
kill her if he were placed where he
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
i two little children at about o'clock
Tuesday morning, which comedies
with the testimony of several wit
nesses in the neighborhood who said
they heard pistol shots in the direc-
tion 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
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
4 it was necessary for her to go to the
slot, 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 III kill you,
and if they put me where | can't kill
you, III have you killed"
All the way on the two-mile drive
to town, Mrs. Hudson says, hes hus-
I band repeated his threats to kill her
or have some one else kill her of she
| opened her mouth against i1im, and
after he was placed in Jail she fear
ed that his brother would kill her if
she told what she knew, she Il alleg-
cd to have said. Mrs. Hudson said
she was 50 nervous when she went to
work she could not understand in
structions gwen her by. her new en-
polyers, and actually forgot to count
This statement Of the woman was
corroborated by r. E. Mccormack,
of the Mills-MeCormack Candy conn
pany, who says he thought her in
| ability to count was due to illiteracy,
but that he did not observe any evi-
dence of nervousness otherwise on
her part.
Mrs. Hudson said that before she
and her husband left the house OH
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 led.
Those who hold to the theory that
the woman's story is true, in sub
stance, and that Hudson killed tho
boys in a fit of anger. believe he took
last look before leaving for sosIi
and found that the two boys had dis
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