Evening star., 1932-01-24
SEEKS TO UNMASk
| Staying MOTIVE
State Presents Evidence
Over Objections of Mrs.
Judd'S Counsel.
xs the Associated Press.


COURT HOUSE, PHOENIX, Ariz.
January 23.-Driving toward completion
of evidence by which the prosecution is
endeavoring to hang Winnie Ruth Judd
County Attorney Lloyd ]. Andrews ap-
preached today the unmasking of the
alleged motive for the defendants con-
fessed alaying of her two women vic
tins.
Over continued strenuous objection
of defense counsel, led by the white
haired veteran Paul Schenck, the State
presented to the jury story Of the
disappearance of Agnes Anne Leroi and
Hedvig Samuelson from their home in
Phoenix last october Is.
State witnesses then told of the send
ing OF two trunks and battered suit
case to Los Angeles, Of the unsuccessful
attempt there Of Mrs. Judd to claim the
baggage and the discovery therein OF
the bodies of the women.
Identifies Trunks.
Lieut.. Fred Ryan of the Los Angeles
police described his inspection of the
trunks which had aroused the suspicious
of train baggage clerk. He identified
the receptacles in which the bodies were
found.
DR.. A. F. Wagner, chief autopsy
surgeon of Los Angeles County, followed
with testimony striking at the original
seif-defense story OF Mrs. Juoo. he
contradicted her assertion Mrs. Samuel
sor,'s body was dismembered only when
IL became necessary to divide the bodies
among various pieces OF baggage.
The autopsy surgeon said he had con-
cmded dismemberment of Miss Samu-
elson's body had been performed either
Immediately following death or WITHIN
@ very few hours.
A transfer company driver previously
had testified to taking one large trunk
from the death cottage to Mrs. Judd
l.orne, because it was so heavy he oe-
clined to transport it to the railway sta
ton "a hours after the State contenos
the murders we're committed.
Pistol Held Very Close"
DIR. Wagner testified his observation
of bullet wounds found-one In the
head of each woman-had led him TO
the conclusion the pistol had been helo
"yery close" in each instance. -.
Spencer Moxley ballistics expert OF
tf,a 7 MS Angeles Police Department, SUBJ
tnitted to long croSs-examlnatlon III
connection with his identification OF
shells and bullets as having been hred
from .25-caliber automatic piStol
found in Mrs. JuddS hat box after Sne
abandoned it in the Los Angeles rail-
wav station.
The specialist still was on the stand
when Andrews, at inquiry Of the court,
announced he expected to be able to
rest the States case early Monday.
The county attorney had yet to make
good on the final assertion of his open
ing statement to the jury: we VIII
sI,1v the existence of strained relations
between these women for as long as hve
or six weeks before the murders.
J. j. Halloran, lumber dealer frieno
Of all three women. and Miss Lucille
Moore. nurse, who first told investiga-
tors of a party at Mrs. Judds house the
night before the slayings,, we're gen
orally assumed as the witnesses VINO
would be used in the effort to establish
motive.
Andrews, however, kept close counsel
as to his plans, except to say ne might
reserve Halloran as rebuttal witness
to testify after Mrs Judd's attorneys
had set up their defense.