Eureka Reporter | 1903-08-21 | Page 6 | Admits Twenty-One Murders

ADMITS TWENTY ONE MURDERS negro hanged at birmingham jokes over bloody record will jones and will hudson ne groes were hanged in the jail yard at birmingham ala last week tor for high way robbery hudson went upon the gallows smoking a cigar he made a statement on the gallows acknowledging that some months since he shot a po diceman iceman a helmet off in birmingham trying crying to kill him he laughed and joked on the gallows just before heaving his cell he stated that he w was born in mexico mo and that he had killed twenty one men in his life he said he had traveled all over the united states mostly in the north on the gallows when asked to tell of il murders he replied that be he would tell that to his master