Show I SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST HIM I S T Hudson Accused of Striking Mrs Eph Madsen Who Is In Critical Condition at Hospital Eph ilfadscn of Wl i WestFourth South reported to the poll co Monday night that his wife avho had been left at home alone was aSsaulted by a man named S T Hudson who culled at the house IIudson la ci vory aged man the landlord of tho Madsen house and It in l said he had called at tho Uladscn home for the purpose oC collecting his rent While there ao Mrs MaOsrn says one of her children sot In his way and he struck the IHtle fellow knocKhip him down Thou the woman I Flatus she ordered Hudson to IPIVO the lilaco and vas In the act of forcing him from her I house when ho tr fclol her nSl the I I ner k the blow felllnK her She was found by her husband on his return home In an unconscious condition The police were at once appealed to and took Hudson Into c1Jatody on a charge of assault as-sault but In Inc light of liter devclop rjcnl Itj I Is po > lblt that ho may ho hold to answer to a far morn serious charge It bun developed that Mrs Madsen wa In a delicate condition and tin result of tho excitement und fear necessitated an operation She Is lying at tho Holy Cross hospital In a very critical condition Hudson however hnq a very different version of the affair He states that Mrs Mudsen had asked him to come to her homo and give reading lessons to her little lit-tle girl and he was doing this when the little boy 1 approached him and heyan to nuirk upon hiM troupers with a pencil to which he objected and ordered tho lad torn to-rn vu away Tho boy In his humiliation befiui to cry nnd tho mother ordered JIudyou to Icavo the houue at the same tlmi starting to pull him toward tho door He held back and when her rIp upon tho lapel of his coat loosened the woman foil upon the floor In a faint Ho denies having slruok her or uslnjj any violence whatever He explained that he was In the act of summoning aid when the matter was reported to tho police |