The Washington times., 1931-10-27
AUTO TRACKS
At SCENE
PROBED
Finding Of BIood.Stalned
Sheets Indicates Mrs Judd
Had AccompIice in Crime

LOS ANGELES. Oct. ~ IN.sJ.
On her bed in the hospital ward
of the county jail, Winnie Ruth
Judd today awaited the official
word that will send her back to
Phoenix, Ariz., where she killed
her two best friends and shipped
their bodies to Los Angeles.
At Sacramento Gov. James
Rolph was prepared to sign the
papers which will permit the
return Of Mrs. Judd to Phoenix,
where she will face trial for the
murder Of Agnes Leroi apd He'd
wig Samuelson.
Meanwhile, Arizona authorities
continued to amass new evidence
in support Of their contention
that the 27.year-old daughter OF
q Free Methodist pastor slew her
two chums deliberately and not
in self-defense, as she maintains.
Finds New Evidence
From Phoenix came word that
physical vestiges Of the murder
had been found in the desert, two
miles north of that city. In the
mesQuite.c0vered brush Of the
Arizona wilderness, Mexican wood.
cutters came across . blood-sOaked
mattress and parts Of two sheets
also stained with blood. These
articles belonged to the Ler0i-
SamuelsOn household, where Mrs.
Judd and her two victims staged
their fierce and fatal battle, &C.
cording to Arizona officials.
The discovery, authorities de-
clared, tended to show that Mrs.
Judd killed the two women as
they lay in bed and that Mrs.
Leroi and Miss Samuelson re.
sisted the killer after, not before,
they we're attacked.
Tire Tracks Clue
Two other bits Of evidence arose
to lend some credence to the pos
sibility that Mrs. Judd might have
had an assistant either before or
Immediately after the murders
were committed.
Arizona officials discovered auto
mobile tracks on a lonely road
beaten through the mesquite. The
tracks showed that a car had
come to the lot from the direc'
ton Of Phoenix and had turned
back. This led to the suspicion
in the minds of investigators that
some motorist drove Mrs. Judd to
the desolate desert scene and
helped her conceal traces Of her
crime.
Another Witness
A second intimation that Mrs.
Judd had an accomplice came
from a newly discovered witness,
Fred Stone, Phoenix hotel
employe. He told Phoenix police
Of accompanying Richard M.
Schwartz, a transfer man, and an.
other hotel worker, Frank Rock,
to the Leroi-Samuelson cottage on
the night of october u. Schwartz
had been summoned by Mrs. Judd
to remove the trunks and he took
his two friends along. Stone told
police:
81 have positive feeling that
someone was in the house be.
sides Mrs. Judd. base that
conclusion on Mrs. Judd's &C
ti0nS in the house and the fact
that she kept it entirely dark
all the time we were there"
Although Mrs. Judd had sig
nified her willingness to return
to Arizona for trial, her new de.
tense attorney, Charles Craddick,
an authority on extradition. de-
clared later that procedure Of
counsel for the woman will de-
pend entirely on the wording Of
Governor Rolph'S extradition war
rants to be issued today.
DR.. Judd Sought
Attorney Craddick announced: {:
eff we feel that q legal in.
Sufficiency exists In the gov
ernOr's extraditiOn warrants,
we will then Immediately file .
writ of habeas corpus petition
demanding a hearing to test
the warrants"
DR.. william c. Judd, portly hus
band Of Mrs. Judd, today sur
rendered to Under Sheriff Eugene
Biscailuz on q warrant charging
that he violated the California
medical act.
DR.. Judd was accused Of treat
ing patients at a clinic from Oc
tober 8 to October 10 without q
California certificate to practice
medicine. Bail was fixed at $500
Mrs. Judd may know her ulti
mate fate by Christmas, Arizona
officials here indicated.
Unless Mrs. Judd's attorneys
find a legal insufficiency' in ex
tradition, papers, they said, they
will not resist extradiction but will
agree to Mrs. Judd's return this
week to Phoenix, where plans are
being advanced to place her or
trial within 80 days.
Although Mrs. Judd'S hearing
on the murder fugitive warrant
from Arizona was fixed for No
vember 9, her attorneys indicated
this hearing probably would b
waived if extradition papers wer'
found legally sufficient.
Attorneys Withdraw
other developments in the cas-
included the withdrawal Of twI
of Mrs. Judd's attorneys. The re
manning attorney, Louis L. Rus
sill, Immediately announced re
tention of Craddick as associate
defense counsel.
DR.. Benjamin Blank. count!
fail physician, said that Mrs
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