Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
HUDSON SAYS HIS WIFE
KILLED TWO CHILDREN

MACON. Ga. July 20-"My wife
was angry because the two boys had
taken a melon she had forbidden
them to have, and she shot them tcN
DEATH is the manner in which Glenn
Moore Hudson shifts the charge that
he murdered Isaiah and Robert Tenn
pie, her two sons by former hus-5
band, fastened upon him by his wife's \
confession, to her shoulders, in an in-S
terview in the Bibb county jail Tues-E
day with Sheriff o. C. Tarver, Of ALI
bany, and r. r. Hall, clerk of tho
superior court, of Dougherty county
as the recipients of his first detaiIedA
statement of the crime.
According to the story, which Hud1
son told to the two visitors, neu'
whom he has known for some time
he rose on the morning of the MUIR
der and while he was making ready
with his wife to go to Albany, he
said he overheard his wife tell the
boys that "She would kill the ono
who touched any of the watermelons
while they were away"
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went down to the pasture and was
gone about half an hour. Upon
his return to the house he worked
about the barn awhile, and then went
to get his wife and start for town.
he said.
He stated that upon his wife's app
pearance, coming from the housed
which she locked carefully, he MOI
ticed that she was extremely nervous,
and as she went to get into the tean1
she pushed at the reins and urges
the mule to move ia ster, he declared
after we had driven for a spens
said Hudson, 81 asked my wife what
had caused her excitement, and shaI
replied: I have killed the kids.
found them with a watermelon
Asked if he then turned about on
in any way indicated that they Should
return to the house upon receivinaI
such a message, Hudson said THAI
he did not, but continued to drivcf
his wife to town.
Story Conflicts
According to Hudson's story, hez
took the gun, which belonged to him.
and which he found BESIDE the dead.
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them into the yard.
Sheriff Tarver states that this con-
flicts with the statement of his dep
uty, who said that he found the rel
volver and four shells by the slde|
of the boys bodies, the morning OF
the crime.
while you were in the pasture.
at the time that the shooting appar-I
emily took place, did you hear any
shots?" asked the sheriff.
mo-" replied Hudson.
The pasture is but a quarter on
a mile from the house, according tpl
Hudson, who was questioned closely
regarding details of his statement hy{
Sheriff Tarver, but he insisted unui1
the close of the interview that Me3
crime had been committed by MaN
wife, and that her motive was con-
tanned in the watermelon episode, and
he laid stress on the statement heE
claimed she made, prior to the muT.<
der, when she said she would Mlll
them if they touched any OF TIL
melons. /
ALBANY, Ga, July 20.-When told
this morning of her husbands stated
ment in the Macon Jail accusing herr
of the murder of her two little boys
Robert and Isaiah Temple, Mrs. Ben
ME Hudson declared it was 1ie.'
my story of the killing or my
boys, as 1 told it to Mr.. Black lasLE
week, was the TRUTH" she. declareu-
This statement my husband has
made shows he is weakening, anal
I believe he will soon make full
and complete confession.
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