The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-10
THE JUDD CASE.
Testimony Leading Up to Re-
lease Of the Woman Who
Killed Him.

Las Vegas, Nm. April 1O-The case in
which Las Vegas has been on the rag
ged edge for two weeks. Mrs. Walker,
charged with the killing of J. S. Judd,
after many postponements came before
the court this week. The Las Vegas OPP
tic says of it:
Or. N. w. Judd: his brother, H. 5.
Judd and wife, of Lead City, S. D.; Mrs.
]. 5. Judd. wife of the man who was
killed, and ]. B. Larimer, from Topeka an
attorney, are here.
Judge Wooster was in the CHAIR ".
H. Ungles took down the testimony.
Messrs. Spiess and Davis represented
the prosecution and Capt. L c. Fort
and W G. Hayden stood for the de-
Tense.
Mrs. Walker sat on a bench to the
right of the presiding justice, while Dr.
and Mr.. Judd and Mr.. J. b. Iarlmer
sat on the extreme right in chairs.
To the right of Mrs. Walker, on the
same bench sat her husband, while to
the left were the young ladies who
roomed with Mrs. Walker, but were alb
sent at the time of the catastrophe.
1.-THE wife of the deceased, though she
has returned from accompanying the
remains. was not in the court room. The
small auditorium was packed to its ut
most capacity, but not a woman was IN
the crowd of attendants.
j. n. Furlong was the first witness
called. 1t came out in his testimony
that a Mrs. Jones had been the former
proprietor of the rooms above his ph0-
tographic studio, and that Mrs. Walker
roOmed with Mrs. Jones; but about the
first of February Mrs. Jones left AMI
Mrs Walker became the lady in charge
"On the day of the killing. Mr. Fur
long was employed in his skyllght ROOM
arranging to take the picture OF
Young man, who was preparing himself
for that ordeal.
Mr.. Furlong heard sound up stairs,
which sounded to him like falling
window sash, or the slamming of a door
nv a puff of wind The sound did not
create any interest on his part. but
some one hurrying down the back stairs
and Judging from the manner in which
the party was coming that some acct
dent had occurred, he opened the door
and found Mrs. Walker ready to knock.
oh! Mr.. Furlong, she said, / have kill
ed a mani Who is hep he asked That
man judd. she replied.
LAS the woman seemed on the point
of collapse, Mr.. Furlong led her to a
chair. After she had been seated, Mr.
F. asked why she had killed Judd, and
she replied that he had come to her
room for some negatives of his which
she had, and while she was getting
them for him he had attempted fanii-
Mr.. Furlong then went up the back
stairs. by which Mrs. Walker had de-
scended, passed through the kitchen
and dining room and entered the west
| bedroom. Here he found the body OF
Mr.. Judd, lying between the folding
bed which the room contained and the
window in the west hall, his head be-
ing against the wall and his feet
toward the bed.
There was broken rocking chair
propped against the door of the bath
room, opening out of the west bedroom,
and preventing its opening. There were
splashes of blood on this chair, which
was to the left side of the deceased
The chair was tilted back to fit under
the knob of the door and could not
have been sat on. Mr.. Furlong also
saw the hat of the deceased which was
overcoat, which had been laid on the
back of a chair in the same room.
when Mr. Furlofg approached the
body he took hold of the hand
of the deceased and threw back the
( lapel of the coat, the first to look for
wound. He at once became convinced
that life was extinct and seeing a pool
of blood under the head he ceased to
look Tor a wound in the body.
Mr. Furlong then went to the office
Of Attorney Hayden, who sent him for
Judge Wooster and Constable Clay He
alC Wooster FASTENED to the scene and
Ciav soon followed. Deceased had on
his body coat and vest, the latter being
fptloned up. His head was about five
feet from the chair which propped the
bath room door
Or N. W. Judd was the next wit
ness. He is a son of the deceased, and
his father would be 6S years old on
April go
DIR. r. D. Black was the next wit
ness. He had known the deceased for
about three years. He saw the body