farmer taking a short cut home. Crow
ther was unconvinced.
Later Lela fed the chickens while her
brother milked the cows. Afterward
they sat together, reading and listen
ing to the radio. Lela kept thinking she
heard strange sounds upstairs, but de
cided she was imagining things. About
eight o'clock, Crowther went to bed.
She continued reading and hearing
the odd noise. Unable to concentrate
on her book, she went to bed at nine,
but she still had a feeling of apprehen
sion. The unidentified sounds were
coming from the kitchen now.
In her nightgown and bare feet, Lela
went to the kitchen. She could see
nothing, but she sensed that another
person was in the room. She screamed.
Suddenly she was struck on the head.
Blow after blow fell, and she reeled
backward. Crowther came running
down the stairs, calling to her. The
prowler lunged at him. Crowther seized
a chair and swung it at the intruder,
now visible as a huge figure silhouetted
in the moonlight
Lela slipped past the two struggling
men and turned on the light. Then she
saw that the prowler had a gun. She
cried a warning to her brother who was
running for a shotgun that hung over
the kitchen door.
He didn't make it A shot from the
prowler's pistol sent him sprawling
backward and he collapsed on the dining-room
floor.
Heedless of the danger, Lela ran to
help her brother. The big man turned
to ward her off, striking out with the
pistol. He pursued her as she wrenched
free and ran back to the kitchen.
She managed to reach the shotgun
and fire, but the shot merely grazed the
attacker's thumb. With a bellow like
an enraged animal, he charged toward
her. She aimed again, but the hammer
clicked on an empty barrel.
The intruder grabbed the gun, yanked
her hair, and struck her with his ham
like fists. Somehow, she managed to
get away from him.
Her breath was coming in gasps now,
her lips bleeding and her body covered
with bruises. Her brother lay dying on
the floor.
For a moment, the frail woman
thought the end had come. She stood
wavering, her head bowed. Then she
jerked erect and faced the brute again.
The tide of battle suddenly turned when
he leaped at her and tripped over a
broken chair.
Lela snatched up the shotgun and
brought the butt down on his head with
what seemed supernatural strength. He
groaned, dropped to his knees, then col
lapsed on the floor.
Throwing on a coat and a pair of
shoes, Lela staggered to the home of
a neighbor a quarter of a mile away.
When Sheriff W. O. Pillow and Dr.
Thomas Watkins, the coroner, arrived
later, both Crowther Hudson and the
intruder were dead. From papers in
his pockets, the man was identified as
Walter Green, age 33, weight 200
pounds, an ex-convict.
The aged men and women who had
been victims of the previous assaults
later identified him as their assailant
Lela Hudson was rushed to a hospital
where she was treated for shock and
multiple cuts and bruises. Many weeks
elapsed before she recovered.
Meanwhile, she was acclaimed
throughout Virginia; messages poured
in from all over the country, praising
her courage. But Lela declined to ac
cept the credit. "It wasn't my own
strength during those last few mo
ments," she declared. "I never could
have done it alone."
Where did she get the sudden strength
to overcome her attacker?
"It's no mystery," she explained.
"When I thought the end had come,
when it seemed the next breath would
be my last, I prayed. God did the rest."
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