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 incision
IN the melon, which was from the
center to one end, was 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
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
employe of w C. Holmon, owner of
the farm on which Glen Hudson was
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 a 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 watermeons and became so en-
ragged that he 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 "Frame-up"
Evidence Of the attempt to carry
out the frame" on Skipper was
| found by the officers in the guarded
statements alleged To have been made
I by both Hudson aNd his wife soon
after the murder was discovered tend
I ing tG cast suspicion on the owner
| of HE watermelons, which, the off
! GERS say Hudson believed would be
more effective than a direct accusa-
ton.
Rhat Skipper is ABSOLUTELY limo
cetgt is the belief of the officers, who
p9i0t to the fact that his attitude
IRON the first has not been that of a
CULTS 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
crates Shippers statement to the eff
! feet that he did not enter Hudson's
house and that neither of them saw
the children until Hudson called
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 a reporter at her cell
in the jail this morning asserted that
her husband, who was taken to the
Bib 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 had
! told Mrs. Hudson yesterday of the
interview and she expressed a 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, until