The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-01-19
ASSERT MRS. JUDD
HAS UNSOUND MIND
NACCESS0RY CASE
Counsel For Wealthy Lumber
man Files Charge After
HystericaI Scene
NERVES BADLY SHAKEN
Woman Slayer Sobs as She Re-
lates Story Of Double Stay
ing in Open Court
NERVES BADLY SHAKEN

Phoenix, Ariz, Jan. 19.-(R-Coun-
sci for John J. Halloran Thursday
challenged the competence Of Winnie
Ruth Judd as witness against the
lumberman at his preliminary hear
ing on a charge Of being IAN Access
sorry to the crime of MURDER" on
grounds she is OF unsound mind. un-
able to comprehend the oath and
not voluntary witness.
It was the second technical objec-
ton raised by counsel for the wealthy
lumberman, the first having to dc
with testimony by Miss Maud Mar
shall, school teacher, who occupied
an apartment next to Mrs. Judd's in
the fall Of 1881.
Miss Marshall testified she heard
some one drive up to and enter Mrs.
Judd's apartment the night Of Oct. is,
1881, the night Mrs. Agnes Anne
Leroi and Miss Sedvig Samuelson
were slain. but she could make no
positive Identification in connection
with the incident. The blonde Mrs.
Judd was convicted of the Leroi STAY
ing.
In an emotional storm Of tears
screams and angry cries, Mrs. Judd
Wednesday, sobbed out her story OF
the killing of two women as q wit
ness in the preliminary hearing.
When counsel for the wealthy lum-
herman resumed a cross-examination
and led her through the details of the
double murder Of Agnes Anne Lero
and Hedvig Samuelson, her hysteris
mounted until the court ordered q
recess.
The blonde young woman, sentenced
to die on Feb. II at the Arizona
prison for the murder of Mrs. Leroi
told, with tears pouring down her
face, how she had fought with the two
women In the apartment here on the
night of Oct. Is, 1881, and had slain
them when they attacked her.
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On the night of the staying she
said she had gone to the apartment
i'll response to an invitation from
Mrs. Leroi to make q fourth hand at
tridge, but when she arrived Evelyn
Mace, who was to have played with
them, had left.
Halloran, who. she charged. planned
the disposition Of the bodies and
eided her escape to Los Angeles,
where she was captured, was to have
seen her that night but she telephon-
ed him she could not see him and
went instead to the apartment.
An argument started, she said,
when Mrs. Leroi asked her if she
knew how Halloran had become ac-
Quainted with q certain girl and she
replied she had introduced them.
Anne upbraided her, she said, and
when she attempted to pass it off
lightly, Mrs. Leroi threatened to tell
her husband, DR.. William G. Judd.
Il told her that was lie and that
I knew too much about her." Mrs.
Judd said she replied. She turned
and went into the kitchen and sud-
denly found Sammy" facing her
with pistol and saying, "'you say
enything about Anne and III kill
YOU"
Mrs. Judd said she reached for the
weapon and they struggled over it.
She saw q bread knife and seized It,
stabbing Miss Samuelson twice.
Sammy. she said. discharged the
weapon and q bullet wounded her in
the hand.
Anne screamed. shoot! Sammy,
shoot!'" Mrs. Judd said. They fell
on the floor and as they plunged down
she twisted Sammy's hand and the
weapon was discharged again Is It
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