The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

eportedly told police he had “four or five shots of vodka.”
Arriving at home, Hudson found that Mrs. Hudson’s daughter, Carolyn Sue
McKINLEY, 14, was entertaining three boys. Hudson and his wie became embroiled in an
argument about the girl which raged for nearly two hours.
At the climax of the quarrel, about 11:50 p.m., Hudson went to a closet, took out a 12gauge
shot gun, went to the back porch of the house and inserted a single shell into the gun.
Coming back into the kitchen, he leveled the gun at his wife in the living room and fired it.
David McKINLEY, who had looked from the living room into the kitchen at almost the
exact instant the gun was discharged, was thought to have been hurt by part of the blast which
richocheted off the kitchen table. His sister was in an upstairs bedroom at the time of the
shooting.
When police arrived, Hudson was seated on the couch beside his wife, who was sprawled
still conscious on the living room floor. He was vague in his story to investigating officers and
kept repeating that he “didn’t know how” the shooting occurred.
Hudson is a welder for the Freeman Loader corporation, manufacturers of farm
implements, and also a part-time bartender.
Monday, January 5, 1959
Samuel D. Powell
Samuel David POWELL, 72, a lifelong resident of the Rochester vicinity, died at 4:45
a.m. Sunday at the Miller nursing home here after a two-year illness. He had been seriously ill for
the past week.
A merchant, barber and in his later years a dealer in metal and paper salvage, Mr. Powell
lived at the corner of Indiana avenue and East Fourth street. He was a member of the Grace
Methodist church here and of the Loyal Order of Moose.
Mr. Powell was born July 17, 1886 in Macy, the son of John and Susan MITCHELL
POWELL. In 1910 he was married here to Dora BIBLER, who died in 1922.
Surviving are a son, Ronald [POWELL], Rochester, and two granddaughters, Judy
[POWELL] of Rochester and Jaren [POWELL] of Annapolis, Md. Two sons, two daughters and a
sister, Mrs. Perry JONES, preceded him in death.
Services will be Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with Dr.
Claude YOUNG officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends may call
at the funerl home.
Dr. Guy V. Pontius
Dr. Guy Victor PONTIUS, 61, son of Mrs. Della PONTIUS, 130 West Eighth street, died
suddenly of a heart attack at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in his home at Orland Park, Ill.
Dr. Pontius was one of the country’s outstanding physicians and surgeons, was surgeon
general of St. Luke’s hospital in Chicago at the time of his death. He had been on the staff of St.
Luke’s since his internship days there, formerly being house physician and later chief of staff until
suffering a heart attack three years ago. Since that time, Dr. Pontius had been both surgeon
general and lecturer at the hospital.
He was widely known as a lecturer at medical colleges throughout the nation.
Born March 9, 1887, Dr. Pontius was a graduate of Rochester high school in 1915.
During his undegraduate days, he was a star on the RHS basketball team coached by R. C.
JOHNSON. He attended Earlham college three years, then entered the U.S. Army reserve medical
corps until 1918. After his discharge, he enrolled in the University of Illinois medical school from