The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-20
Police Launch Hunt For Arizona
Doctors Wife Who Check
ed Receptacle
TWO MEN ARE QUESTIONED
Deny knowledge Of Crime; Let
ters and Pictures Disclose
Identity


the murder Of two women whose
bodies were found in trunks at q
railroad station here Monday, ran
against blank wall Tuesday when
woman suspect. questioned aboard a
train In Arizona, proved her inno-
cence.
Operatives Of the Southern Pacific
railroad took the suspect into custody
at Yuma, Arizona. but on their ar
rival at Phoenix they announced she
was not Mrs. Judd, believed by police
to be the slayer.
The collapse Of this clue left police
with a battling hunt before them.
She had not been seen since last
night. Her brother. B. j. McKinnell.
said she left his automobile in down.
town Broadway after fleeing from the
station.
McKinnell. at first represented as
confessing that Mrs. Judd had ad-
mitted the murders to him. later
cried brokenly: Its a ue."
The bodies were identified tenta.
lively as those Of Mrs. Agnes Leroi.
an X-ray technician at q Phoenix,
Ariz., clinic, and Miss Hedvig Samuel
son, her roommate. Mrs. Leroi for
merly lived In Portland, Ore, where
she received medical training. and
Miss Samuelson's home was in
White Earth. N. D.
Baggageman Saw Blood
A baggage master who saw what he
belived to be blood seeping from one
Of the trunks, which had been
shipped here from Phoenix, where
Mrs Judd had lived with the two
women. made the discovery Of tho
crimes
The suspicion Of the agent put the
woman to flight and she hurried from
the station with her brother driving
her. In the brief interval between
the departure and the time McKin-
nell set for her disappearance from
his automobile, reports conflicted a
to what occurred between the two,
and police had no plausible motive
for the crimes.
Later an admission that his sister
had confessed to him the killing Of
the two women was made to the AS
socated Press by McKinnell. q Los
Angeles university student. McKin-
nell made positive statement after
series Of reports had been circulated
in which police denied the young
mans alleged statement.
DR.. w. G. Judd, husband Of the
missing woman. shocked and un-
nerved, said she had lived with the
two women but that he had not seen
his wife for some time.
He claimed he could not UNDER
stand why she might commit the
atrocity. although Phoenix police
found letter In Mrs. Judd's room
there from her husband In which he
said he supposed you thought so
much Of those two girls that you
would be perefcetly happy with them
)" And closed with the state
ment: II am not at all surprised at
what you tell me-"
Offers No Explanation
Like the other tangled and rnysti-
flying aspects Of the case. this state
ment went unexplained, the physician
Offering to throw no light upon 1t.
McKinnell, saying II hope she gets
away-she's my sister," stated he
gave her S. when she left his auto
mobile at downtown intersection,
crowded with traffic.
On the possibility Mrs. Judd might
have boarded train to flee from the
state, police made belated attempt
to search trains running to the east
and it was at Yuma two railroad op-
eratives found the woman they be-
lieved to be Mrs. Judd.
At border Mexican points q vigtli-
ant watch was kept. .7olice learned
Mrs. Judd once lived in Mexico and
they saw possibility that she might
attempt to cross into foreign terri
tory.
In one Of the trunks was found a
picture of an attractive brunette girl
with "Hedvig Samuelson, Landa. N.
d." penciled on the back. A diploma
bearing the same name and issued
July "a, 1925. from the North Da-
kota state normal college at Minot,
N. D., also was found.
Letters Are Found
Letters and photographs in the
trunks led to the search for Mrs.
Judd and her husband, and to the
police assumption as to identity of
the victims, each Of whom apparently
had been shot.
After discovery Of the bodies, police
found a suitcase in a restroom con-
tanning a portion Of one Of the torsos
Officers here were informed Mrs
Judd had lived with the two women
or had been associated with them IN
Phoenix.
In Mrs. Judd's apartment at
Phoenix was found q letter to her
signed w. c. j., her husbands int-
tials, saying.
Il don't want to write letter to
lie around for Sammy miss Samuel
sons nickname) and Miss Leroi to
read" said the letter. Il hope you
will let me know as soon as you can
what the chances are OF your clinic
closing or your doctors quitting. ]
hate to think Of you being alone.
II had supposed that you thought
so much Of those two girls that you
would be perfectly happy with them.
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