Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1909 — NEGRO YOUTH CONFESSES [ARTICLE]

NEGRO YOUTH CONFESSES

Admits Robbing and Then Murdering the Rev. Dr. W. T. Hudson. Houston, Miss., Feb. 9.—Roby Baskin. the eighteen-year-old negro under arrest here, has confessed to the murder of’the Rev. Dr. W. T. Hudson. He says he shot the clergyman be cause he had robbed him and then decided to get him out of the way.