Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-13
HUSBAND KILLED
BOYS, MRS. HUDSON
SWEARS ON STAND
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ground that this statement Of the
witness to Mrs. Hudson was in effect
an offer of reward, and came under
the rule holding confessions inadmis-
sible as evidence when such hope
Of reward is held out. He also OBJ
statement was made in the Sheriff S
office while the defendant was in
duress.
The jury was sent out of the court
argued. 1t was brought out by fur
Their questioning of the witness while
the Jury was out that Mrs. Hudson
replied to the effect that she did
not know anything about the murder;
that she, left her children alive on
she said, was sitting on the front
doorstep, eating his Breakfast, while
the larger boy was In the backyard
feeding the chickens. The little boy
waved his hand at her as she LETT
she said, saying: "Good-by, mamma;
[ wish you could take me with you"
She further stated, the witness said,
that her children had been beaten the
Friday before the murder. Asked
who had beaten them she replied,
l.
beaten them, she said: Because he
didn't like them" Skipper is the
witness to whom Hudson is alleged
to have first reported the discovery
of the boys dead bodies at the Hud-
son home last July -. H.. .,,,a
Defense counsel argued that this
was damaging admission, inasmuch
as the state expected to show con-
flicting statements by the defend
ant. The prosecution commended, on
In c-fS to- ant
| was not a confession, or an incriml-
mating admission, on its face, put to
the contrary was positive denial OF
all connection with the crime. and
therefore did not come under the
rule.
Judge Bell stated that he would
admit the evidence on the ground
that the statement was not on it's
face either a confession of guilt
or an incriminating admission. He
request of the defense attorneys,
who asked time to look up authorities
on the point Of law involved and
court took a recess until $3.50 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
Children Excluded
After the jury had been selected
Judge Bell stated that the court room
was no place for children during to
trial of this case, and ordered the
directed that no one be admitted un-
less seats were available. as standing
in the aiS1es caused confusion ami
disorder. He said he would hold the
sheriff responsible for perfect order
in the court room throughout the
trial. A large number of spectators
were compelled to leave because Oh
the COURTS order forbidding stand
ing in the aisles.
The first witness called by the
state was Shep Bruno. a negro. VINO
!lVed 200 yards away from the Hud-
son home. He also was the FIRST wit
ness in the trial of Glen Moore Hut
son last week. He told practically
the same story he told In the hus-
hands trial.
The second witness was Steve
Chapman, a negro farmer, who lived
a short distance below the Hudson
home. He told CT driving back from
a trip to town early the morning Of
the murder and seeing Skipper in
buggy ahead Of him. He said Skip
per did not stop at the Hudson 1,1dso1
into a field which Skipper had Guilt
waited. He said as he passed the
| Hudson home that morning both the
front doors of the house were SHUT
He testified TO seeing Hudson and
wife with the children in wagon
| 7 ear a lime sink at one time. and At
another time of seeing Hudson with
| the children in a wagon in the same
vicinity.
J. S. Clarke, white farmer, who
said he lived 400 steps from the Hud-
| son home, testified, as he had in the
| trial of Hudson, that on the morn
| ing Of the murder he heard two shots
coming from the Hudson house. Inc
| shots were heard between daylight
and sunup, he declared, or about
| twenty-five minutes before sunup.
| Il hO1t three
seconds apart, that tie first one wa
clear and the second one was dull.
| J. W. Waters, a convict guard on
the county farm. said that on the
morning Of the mur6es, Just a6out
at the rear of the barn across the
! road from the Hudson home. He
| said she stood there some time, look
ing off over the field behind the
| barn.
After Mrs. Hudson had stood there
beh.nd the barn for some time, her
arms akimbo, the witness said, he
saw Hudson come from the house,
leading the mule hitcheds to the
wagon. Mrs. Hudson got in and they
drove off towards town in. fast
trot. He had seen Hudson drive off
several times before, the witness
said, but never faster than q walk.
Skipper Not Questioned
T. NJ. Skipper, who was the states
son, was the next witness. He told
the same story of the killing that he
told in the former hearing, and was
not cross examined by the defense
He told Of the incidents leading up
to the alleged finding Of the bodies
| by Hudson, when the latter reported
the discovery to him, in practically
the same words he used during the
previous trial
The witness, Shep Bruno, was re-
called to identify the pistol that Hud-
son brought out of the house when
he reported the finding of the bodies
to Skipper. Bruno said he had seen
the pistol in Hudsons hands some
days before the killing. Cross-exam-
ined. he said he had never seen the
pistol in the possession Of Mrs. Hud-
son.
NJ. F. Garrett, a garage proprietor
who was a member of the coroner s
jury, testified as to Mrs, Hudson s
actions and words at the time the
inquest was held, the morning of the
! tragedy. He said she was crying
most of the time and had but little
to say.
Mr.. ,,rrett said Mrs. Hudson de,
MED all knowledge Of the crime al
the coroner's inquest, saying she had
left her children alive when she went
to town that morning.
The last witness Of the day was
Mrs. ]. R. Leary, whose testimony
was objected to by the defense.
PonnevIvania Ordeyed