The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-12-30
CHARGE SPORTSMAN
WAS ACCESSORY IN
trunk SLAYINGS
J. J. HaIIoran Not Accused Of
Participating in Actual
Murders, However
FACES CONCEAL MENT COUNT
Phoenix Businessman Accepts
Bench Warrant; to Have
Hearing Next Tuesday

Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 3o.-lP)eJ. J.
Halloran, Phoenix lumberman and
sportsman, was indicted by the grand
jury Friday in connection with the
Winnie Ruth Judd murder case and
shortly afterward accepted a bench
warrant charging he was an Access
sorry in the Staying of Agnes Anne
LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson, native
OF North Dakota.
Halloran appeared at the court
house and posted 5000 bond. He
was released pending preliminary
hearing next Tuesday.
Inc charge against the lumberman
was based on alleged attempted con-
cealment OF a crime. He was not
charged with implication in the
Sayings themselves. The maximum
penalty upon conviction would be
tive years imprisonment.
The indictment came two DAYS
after Winnie Ruth Judd, Condemned
to die Feb. II for the Staying of Mrs.
LeRoi, and under a second charge
OF murder in connection with the
death OF Miss Samuelson, appeared
before the grand jury.
Bill Charges Concealment
Specifically, the true bill alleges
Halloran. well knowing the said
Winnie Ruth Judd to have commits
ted the said crime of murder. ana
with full knowledge that a felony.
to-wit, murder, had been Committed
by the said Winnie Ruth Judd, did
then and there conceal the commits
sion OF said crime from the magis-
trate and did harbor and protect the
person Of said Winnie Ruth Judd"
Halloran'S name came into tho
case during investigation of the STAY
lngS prior to Mrs. Judd's trial, as a
friend OF all three women. It was
testified at the trial that he, with
several others, was q visitor ut tina
home of Mrs. Judd, and also at the
apartment of Mrs. LeRoi and Miss
Samuelson, on Oct. Is, 1881, the night
before the alleged date Of the slay-
ings.
He was subpoenaed as a witness by
both prosecution and defense. but
was not placed on the stand.
Mrs. Judd was given an opportu-
nifty by the grand jury to carry out
her repeated expressions of a desire
to tell ALL" after the Arizona SUI
.preme court had denied her a new
trial. Later the court declined to
consider her petition for q rehear-
ing.
Story Told First Time
Mrs. Judd's testimony before the
grand jury Wednesday marked the
first time her story had been told
before such an inquisitorial body.
Reports, while unofficial, generally
were that the condemned woman's
grand jury testimony had not impli-
Gated anyone in the actual slayings.
She was reported to have said she
acted alone, in self-defense, but that
she had sought to bring others into
the case when confronted with the
problem of disposal of the bodies and
escape from detection.
The indictment Of Halloran came
shortly after Arthur c. Verge, at.
torney for Mrs. Judd, announced in
Los Angeles he would appeal her
case to the U. s. supreme court.
charging she failed to get q fair trial
IN the Arizona superior court or hear
ing before the state supreme court.
Mrs. Judd was reported to have
told the grand jury q plan to con-
ceal the bodies near Phoenix, evolved
by herself and others, had gone
awry, and she then sent them as
baggage to Los Angeles.