Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-23
INSANITY VERDICT
SAVES RUTH Judd
Jury Out Less Than z Hours.
Prisoner Without Sign
of Emotion.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FLORENCE, Ariz., April 22.-Ths
shadow Of hangman's hand was lifted,
perhaps forever, from the neck Of Win
ME Ruth Judd tonight by, the verdict
Of nine men Of Superior Court jury
Of ~ who found her insane.
At dawn next Friday she was to have
been hanged for the murder Of Agr.es
Anne Leroi, but by the jury's judgment
Of her mental condition she will be
placed under the care Of physicians and
psychiatrists at the Arizona State
Hospital for the Insane in Phoenix.
Tomorrow she will enter the portals
Of the institution which will be her
sanctuary until, If ever, her mind is
adjudged to have regained its balance.
Unmoved by Verdict.
Tonight the fact that death on the
gallows once more had passed her by
this time perhaps forever-made no
apparent impression on her conscious
ness or emotions.
She did not reveal by the flicker of
an eyelash any understanding of the
jury's verdict, which had set a crowded
court rovom of to a tumult Of cheers.
Her features were blank and her eyes
ncomprehending as she walked from
the old-fashioned Pinal County Court
House, where for seven days she had
sat fldgeting in her chair, sometimes
IN Mysteries, as lawyers wrangled over
her life.
Warden A. G. Walker of the Arizona
State Prison, smiling, his features
stamped with relief, sought a way for
her through the vociferous crowd.
Women sought to grasp her hand, to
pat her on the shoulder. She paid no
attention to them.
Speeches in Cell.
Pale and icily aloof-she had re-
ceived indiferently and failed to re-
turn caresses showered on her by her
aged parents, Rev. and Mrs. H. j..
McKinnell of Darlington, Ind. She
went back to her little adobe cell house
in the women's ward of the State
prison, sat down on her cot and made
ready to allow the matrons to prepare
ner for bed, saying not a word.
minutes asking for instructions once,
and taking five ballots.
The first ballot resulted In a vote of
10 to 2 for insanity, but two of the
jurors withdrew before signing the YER
dict.
There was delay while Superior Judge
E. L. Green was called from his dinner,
but the jury entered the court room as
soon as the judge appeared and, by
agreement of counsel, the verdict had
been read before Warden Walker had
time to lead Mrs. Judd into the room
after a dash with her by motor car
from the penitentiary.
Spectators were standing on chairs.
waving hats and handkerchiefs, clap
ping their hands and applauding loudly
when the slender. pale young woman
stepped across the Threshold. She
walked down the aisle Just ahead of
her guarding matrons and slipped into
her chair.
DR.. william G. Judd, her husband,
his face flushed with emotion, sat down
beside her, took one of her hands and
placed an arm about her shoulders.
Father Offers Comfort.
Leaning close, to make himself heard
above the uproar, he said:
You will not be hanged. Every
thing is all right. Do you hear? You
are going to the hospital"
She stared blankly across the coun-
sci table around which surged smiling
lawyers.
Warden Walker, who had told on
the witness stand his dread of the re-
sponsibility the law had placed upon
him, expressed vast relief and salts
faction that his decision to ask the
sanity hearing for the condemned
woman had been affirmed. He said ar
rangements would be made to start
Mrs Judd on her trip to the State hos
pital by car in the morning.