Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-06-22
High Court Says
Hudson Must Die

| ATLANTA, Ga.,,- Denying all
claims TOR new trial, the Georgia SUI
preme court Monday affirmed the
death sentence imposed by the Dough
erty superior court on Glen M. Hud-
son, Dougherty county farmer who
was convicted recently of killing his
two stepsonS, Robert and Isaiah TEN
pie, age a and 9 years. Only execu-
tive clemency can save Hundson from
the gallows unless his attorneys sue
coed in obtaining an order to take the
case to the United States supreme
Court.
Hudson, according to evidence in
troduced at the trial, killed his two
stepsons early on the morning of July
II, 1921, to keep from supporting
them. His wife, Mrs. Bonnie Temple
Hudson, who was charged jointly with
the murder of the two BOYS was ac-
Quilted. Hudson was sentenced to be
hanged November Is last year, but
his execution was stayed when his at
torneys appealed to the higher court.
Notable Murder
The crime attracted considerable in
terest throughout the entire country
and feeling against Hudson was 50
pronounced that he was moved from
the Albany Jail to Macon for safe keep
ing. Both boys were found dead by
neighbors in the Hudson home early
IN the morning, with their bodies
showing evidence of severe beating
and bullet holes through their heads,
MT. and Mrs. Hudson VINO were in Al
bany when the bodies were discovered
were arrested on their return to the
farm The evidence showed that
hudson was the last to leave the
farm house that morning, his wife
having gone some distance away to
get into buggy to await her husband
Inc supreme court held in affirming
the sentence that one who hears a con-
verSatlon between husband and wife
when the conversation is revelant, NAV
testify what he heard. Shep Bruno a
negro witness, in testifying for the
prosecution, had sworn that he heard
Hudson tell Mrs. Hudson that he
didn't have a house full of children
to work himself to death for" This
conversation the witness claimed, en-
sued one morning, when Mrs. Hudson
had lmplored her husband to go to
work in order to provide food and
clothing to her children.
Sheriff 0. F. Tarver, of Dougherty
county, testified at the trial that Hud-
son while in the aMcon Jail had told
him certain details of the case after
ne had told Hudson that his wife had
confessed to the crime. The supreme
court ruled that statements of an in
eliminating character made by one ac-
cused OF crime are admissible in evil
dence If freely and voluntarily made,
even though they be made to an Off
Ger while in his custody and induced
by trlckery, artifice or deception
Affidavits Fail
The higher court also held that
where mass of testimony is objected
to as whole and part of it proves
competent the objection is not well
taken and that alleged newly-discov.
cred evidence would not have changed
the verdict of the lower court.
Atfidavits signed by J. w. Akin,
J. J. Tyson and G. B. Reynolds, which
were introduced at the new trial hear
ing, were considered by the supreme
court as insufficient to chance the YER
dict. These affidavits contained state
ments from the signers that they had
passed the Hudson home at daybreak
on the morning of the crime was com.
mlttted and had seen Mrs. Hudson seat
ed in buggy with a pleasant express
sion on her face, which indicated that
nothing unusual had occurred and that
Hudson was leading a mule out of
barn. They also claim to have seen
two negroes lettering near the house.