Winnie
Ruth JUDD |
A crowd has been gathered to witness the arrival
of Winnie Ruth Judd to a Phoenix jail. She
had been a fugitive, and was arrested in Los Angeles and returned to
Arizona, where she
faced charges for the murder of her friends Agnes
Ann LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson.
Winnie Ruth Judd is pictured
talking with her new attorney Paul W. Schenck, during a brief court
appearance in which she was formally given into custody of Sheriff
McFadden after abandoning her
fight against extradition. Her husband,
Dr. William C. Judd, is standing in the shadows at left.
Mrs. Lon Jordan, Phoenix police matron, arrived
with Sheriff J. R. McFadden to take
Winnie Ruth Judd
to
Arizona for trail. Mrs. Jordan believed that Judd would
receive
the death penalty if found guilty and sane.
A portrait of Burton J. McKinnell, Winnie Ruth Judd's brother.
Winnie Ruth Judd said that
she is ready to testify against J. J. "Happy Jack" Halloran, a Phoenix
lumberman accused of being an accessory in the "trunk murder" case.
Halloran is leaving the
court here after voluntarily answering the
indictment. He was freed on $3000 bail.
Winnie Ruth Judd, the
"velvet tigress" and "trunk slayer" stands on the grounds of Arizona
prison
at Florence, looking elegant in her velvet dress. At the time
of this photograph, she had 15 days
to live, and remained hopeful that
her death sentence would be commuted. It was.
Exterior of the Alvarez & Moore funeral parlor at
Court and Olive Streets in Los Angeles. When Winnie
Ruth Judd's husband appealed to her to surrender, she phoned him,
met him at Fifth and Olive,
and for seclusion, was whisked away to
this funeral parlor. Officers arrived at the funeral home
while she
was telling her story and arrested her.
A letter from Winnie Ruth Judd
to her husband, Dr. William J. Judd, dated October 17, 1931, a
day
after the murders of LeRoi and Samuelson. This is the second page
of a two page letter,
where she professes how lonely she is, and how
much she loves her husband.
Photograph of Winnie Ruth Judd's
Los Angeles County Jail booking slip, dated October 23, 1931,
identifying her as a fugitive for murder in Arizona.
Winnie Ruth Judd reclining with her hand above
her head in a County Jail hospital bed.
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