A woman throws her arm across Winnie
Ruth Judd and holds her back in her chair at her sanity
hearing in Florence, Arizona. When psychologists testified that she is
sane, she hurled
herself in the woman's arms.
Arthur Anderson, a baggage agent with Southern
Pacific Railroad, kneels next to the trunks where
Winnie
Ruth Judd hid her murder victims. Here he shows how his
suspicions were aroused when
he discovered a strange odor emanating
from two trunks in the baggage room and found
blood oozing from one of
them. Inside, the bodies of Agnes LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson
were
discovered.
The hands of Winnie Ruth Judd.
The left hand is bandaged where she says Hedvig Samuelson
shot her.
Several witnesses say there was no bandage on the hand when they saw
Mrs. Judd
after the time of the killings.
Dr. Kenneth Williams, a noted psychiatrist,
studies Winnie Ruth Judd intently. He was
retained by
police to question her mind, and he found that she is
sane, and lacks sufficient "temper" for a
killing rage, and possesses
enough strength to kill two women and pack their bodies in trunks.
Frank Dewar, Eugene Biscailuz, and Sheriff
McFadden flank Winnie Ruth Judd as she
is taken
for booking in Arizona.
This closeup photo shows the changing eyes of
Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, the "windows of her soul."
Her eyes, lazy with sedatives, large, hazel-colored and set far apart,
are described as pools of
mystery. Sometimes they are wide with
appealing sweetness that arouses the protective instinct
in men and
women alike, character students say. Sometimes they are half-lidded
with curling
lashes that hide secrets. And sometimes they dart fires
of anger or passion. Then they appear
to be a cold forbidding steely
color. Photo dated: October 28, 1931.
Hedvig Samuelson in costume as Madame Butterfly.
Photo of Agnes Ann LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson. LeRoi was an X-ray
technician at a Phoenix clinic.
Samuelson was a schoolteacher, and
one-time patient at that clinic. A man named Halloran
attended parties
with them, and the prosecution contended that Judd's jealousy
over Halloran
furnished a motive for their murders.
An investigator examines the refrigerator from
which Winnie Ruth Judd sneaked milk and food
while she hid out for three days and nights in a room in the La Vina
Sanitarium
in Pasadena, California.
