Evening star., 1931-12-06
BY WILL IRWIN,

ri M glad they're extraditing me
- back to Arizona" said Winnie
Ruth Judd. They don't hang
women in Arizona"
She had just been arrested,
caught almost redhanded, the police
say, in what seems on the surface q
most atocious marder Herself far
gone IN tuberculosis, probably q hys-
terlac, she is accused of shooting two
woman friends whose ways had dis
pleased her, Afterward, perhaps with
some accomplice, she dissected the
bodies and shipped them in ordinary
baggage to Los Angeles, at which point
she hoped to reclaim and conceal them.
There followed the usual slip, the ar
rest and the remark about Arizona
justice
She reckoned without knowing the
lacts. They do hang women in Arizona
OlIy lew years ago they hanged Mary
Dugan under circumstances too horrible
Tor long description in the newspapers-
just the line 1T jerked her head off"
And yet the hope of poor, abnormal
Mrs. Judd has some Justification, For
10 years now, this State has had a
Klno OF uneasy conscience about capital
punishment, has justified it mainly on
tne ground that it keeps off lvnching
pees. FURTHER, G. w. P. Hunt in late
years almost the perpetual Governor
mas a deep-rooted dislike for judicial
killing, yet has permitted It, despite the
power 10 pardon, because it is the law
Campbell Comes on Scene.
:, And behind the present Hunt regime
lies that of Thomas E. Camnbpll now
FEDERAL Civil Service Commissioner an
other Governor who followed the sana
policy, but in the face of an aversion
which goes down to the roots of bic
emotions-which amounts. indeed to q
kind OF complex Partly because he
inquired In an episode which put Arizona
back In the list of capital plnishme,t
states, but mostly because evervthino
Whlch ever happened to Tom CamnbeiI
Is soory-tellerS material, his case seems
laT Ihe more interesting of the two
a SeCCing lorth to tell this story
nope l VIII be pardoned for digressine
now and then from the main roag
When you talk of Tom Camnhe,I ~
temptation to go off onto attraotj,,o NV,
squlrrel-tracks becomes Irresistible IN
TACT, l feel justified in beginning at q
period When ne was not yet born
In the year 1857, a ganeIing hnu -.
i nahleo Danlel Campbell was WALKING
down Philadelphia street He Hs Ing
been very strictly brought IN bu .'"o
family OF mixed Quaker and presbyA
terlan tenets. He had no bad babits.
mas none even to this day. when s hn g.
rouholng out 81 years. He saw so,,e
strange boys of about his own 'o,t,e ane
struggling with live pig. A age
naturally and humanity, he stenned
over to see what it was ali abol,t9Nwpbpeeuu tIppeu
a policeman arrived. when
The boys went over a fence with th.,-
pig, which they had just stolen -'fi fror, S1eis
drover, The policeman arrestad tio1ll n.a
campbell, the innocent bystanGer ai oaa
locked him up in jail. He sent word aio ~
one one OF his sisters. She Jumped to to the W
conclusion that he really had sto,eu the tt,e
pig, decided that a brief terno no0ieii i !aie !;
would give him opportunity to to ransat na yati
and did nothing He Law bebips pon., Sans
overnight until another relative haiIaS Ia,s
him out. i'e paueo
Acquitted of Charge
Acquitted Of the charge and yo,-,, ~
sentful toward his family. he manifsstea
that Campbell suddenness hheStea whinb h;s
son has made a tradition in Arizona '
He walked straight to a recr,Iit,ng a ntsco
and enlisted in that famous 7th eavairv %