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Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 9

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Tucson, Arizona
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I TUCSON, ARIZONA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 193t THK AK1ZONA DAILY ST A PACE NINE A Tale of Two Cities How Press Cameras Followed Mrs. Judd xS 1. t-SwKU a i i i il.s'SQCiaird Press Piiut It was In this bungalow In Phoenix, tha. Mies Hsdvlg Samuel-ton and Mrs. Acnes Lerol were murdered and their bodies shipped In trunks to Los Angeles.

Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, roommate of ths victims, told authorities she killed the women In self-defense. Curious passersby are shown examining the rear stooD of the murder cottaye. The three women believed to be principals In a Phoenix, murder. The bodies were found In trunks at the Los Angeles depot.

Associated Press telephoto of Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd (right) who was sought as suspect In connection with the crims and (left) Mrs. Agnes Le Rol and Hedvig Samuel-sen (center) whose pictures were found in the trunk and said to be the viatims. Associated Prtss Pkot9 Sheriff J. R.

McFadden, standing closest to the car, and Wlnnls Ruth Judd leaving Los Angeles for Phoenix, where she will be tried for the murders of Agnes Le Rol and Hedvlg Samuelson. The women were shot to death in the Arizona capital and their bodies sent to Los Angeles In trunks. SLHV im Kj V'. 6 I I dssiit uiiea Mtsa (uio Associated Press Photo Hundreds of persons Jammed a Los Angeles courtroom when Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd (indicated by an row), confessed slayer of Miss Hedvig Samuelson and Mrs.

Agnes Lerjl, was arraigntd on a fugitive warrant. Louis P. Russill, her attorney, is shown at left of Mrs. Judd, with her husband standing at right of her. An artist (left) Is sketching the scene.

Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd having her wounded hand dressed In a police receiving hospital In Los Angeles. She Is being held for the slaying of two Phoenix, women whose bodies were sent to Los Angeles In trunks. In her confession to police she said her hand was Injured durlna a auarrel In which she killed the women In self defense. 4 5" 4ssociteJ Press Pioro H.

U. Grimm (above) of Phoenix, landlord of Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slayer of two women, unwittingly helped her by assisting In moving trunks containing bodies of her two victims preparatory to shipping them to Los Anaeles. rv 4 New Rail Head ft wff4trT' VT ssocAtcd Prexs Police of Phoenix, are shown examining ashes In the fireplace of the bungalow in which two women were killed by Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, and their bodies shipped to Los Angeles.

A piece of a bedroom rug and bed clothing had been destroyed in an apparent effort to remove blood-stained traces of the killings. jTV.i'Jrfty rk mt i Jail ill' 1 nv wJ A Vw i I A Mo'iatra Pun Ptt'i'tt Here's Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd (left) being booked at the Los An. geles county ail by Assistant Chief Matron Mable Williams on charge! of slaying her two friends, Mrs. Agnes Le Rol and Hedvig Samuelson In Phoenix, Ariz.

Mrs. Judd surrendered after hiding out five days. If (4 spur i- I I if Vr Vf i i5ff' Walter S. Franklin, who began his railroad career as a freight platform clerk on the Pennsylvania railroad, was elected president of the Wabash railroad and Its subsidiary, the Ann Arbor. A 1 ylssoriutcl Press PJkofo Here Is a new closeup of Winnie Ruth Judd.

She is expected to go on trial soon in Phoenix, for the slaying of two women friends whose bodies were found In trunks shipped to Los Angeles. Atsoctatea Prest Photo Associated Press telephoto of Dr. V. C. Judd, (left) husband of Mrs.

Winnie Ruth Judd who was sought as a suspect in connection with the murder of two women, believed to be Mrs. Agnes Le Rol and Ludvig S.irvureisen, in phoenix, and the sending of their bodies to L03 Angeles in trunks. Right, her brother, B. J. McKinnell, who was said to have gone to the depot with Mrs.

Judd to get the trunks. 4 Press tLot9 FVT" Defied Police '7 ii. Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slayer of two women who3s bodies were shipped In trunks from Phoenix, to Los Angeles, is shown leaving the emergency police hospital In Los Angeles after a bullet was removed from her left hand and her arm placed in a sling. At right Is Joseph Taylor, Los Angeles chief of detectives.

Behind them (center) is Mrs. Judd husband. Candidate? 9 IN DETROIT CUSTOMS SQUABBLE 4 $3 2 JH (5151 V'l o5 it 4 V1 1 MflT 4 5 i4ssocisied Pre Pbvrv Amtutttd Pint Photo Mrs. Floyd May (upper) resisted a tear gas bomb attack but was captured by deception after she had held officers at bay In a cabin near Bayview, Idaho. She fired more than SO shots at the posse.

Her daughter, Doris, 7, (lower) was with her and police refused to fire, fearino thev would Inlura the child. Xfe. sociafJ Press rhotn A vice presidential boom for Alice Roosevelt Longworth was reported by Representative Williamson of South Dakota. He said republicans in his home state are discussing the possibility of her candidacy in the event Vice President Curtis does not seek re-election. Associated Press Pboto Asiocintrrt Press Photo Mrs.

Winnie Ruth Judd, wife of a Santa Monica, physician, Is sought by Pacific coast police charged with the slaying of two women, whose bodies were sent in trunks from Phoenix, to Los Angeles. Below: These tags were attached to one ef the trunks. The notation by a suspicious baggageman caused Mrs. Judd to fee after calling for the trunks. Congressman Rcbert Clancy (left) of Michigan is attempting have Walter S.

Petty (right), assistant collector of customs at Detroit, removed from office, accusing him of concealing the shooting of an alleged rum runner by a customs agent. Petty is In charge of the customs border patrol which guards the Detroit river aaainst rum smuaaler- Los Angeles officers are shown examining the r'cthes which Mr. Winnie Ruth Judd said she stole while in hidi, in Los Angeles before her surrender and confession that she killed Hedvig Samuelson and Mrs. Agnes Lerol at Phoenix, Ariz..

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