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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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