The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-31
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 acal fury which characterized the murder of her two women friends and the dismemberment of their bodies nine years ago, took com- mand of her behavior and she ragged like Q caged tigress.
 6axe and hospital orderlies were hard put to calm her. Then they gave her food and put her to bed. It was not until then, when the lights went out on the ward building and her surrender and reincarcera- ton was confirmed to the Phoenix populace. that this city went to bed. For several hours it had been in 8 turmoil of excitement.
 About dusk a woman on the out skirts of the city telephoned Sherin Lon Jordan's headquarters that Win- nie Ruth had been seen stalking through the city's outskirts, waving butcher knife. Scores of deputies and policemen rushed into the two- mile area separating the hospital and the city.
 MOt0efS C3W m OahhuEGm The report quickly spread. Mothers in the vicinity called their children from sidewalks, locked their doors. Men brandishing pistols rushed in and out of Jordan's of6ce. At the heighth of the confusion, blue-eyed blonde with disheveled hair staggered into the sheriff's ofice-a double" of Winnie Ruth.
 Deputies tensed. One pulled his gun, another his handcuffs.
 The woman said, 'sWhash goin' on (hick) whash all excitement?" She was drunk.
 Husband May Have Aided
 Sheriff Jordan wondered today whether Winnie Ruth's husband, Dr. W. c. Judd, patient at the veterans hospital at Sawtelle, Cal, who came here this week for an unannounced purpose, had contacted her and persuaded her to surrender When she walked from the hospital grounds last Tuesday night she in formed Governor Jones in her note that she wanted to see her invalid father, Rev. J. H. McKinneH of Phoenix, and Dr. Judd. She saw her father soon after her escape and her mother relayed her note to Governor Jones. Her parents were "very happy" today that she had returned.
 we both have thanked God" Mrs. McKinnell said.
 Winnie Ruth killed Hedwig Sam uelson and Agnes Ann Leroi in 1881 during, she said at her trial, an ar- gument over a man. She cut up their bodies, placed the parts in two trunks and a hat box all of which she checked on a railroad ticket to Los Angeles. She accompanied the trunks. Blood dripping from one aroused a baggage mans suspicious in Los Angeles.
 Hunted for Six Days She told him she would get the key so he could examine its contents, and fled. She was hunted for six days before she surrendered, after Dr. Judd had made public appeal to her.
 She was convicted and sentenced to death. But her attorneys got her a sanity hearing and 8 Phoenix court found that she was insane. She has been an inmate of the Ari- zona hospital for the insane for eight years. Upon her escape Gov- ernor Jones revealed that her de- mentia praecox had steadily become worse and that her warped mind saw 8 ss lsu punoIv suo6IsAs HIIsnlIEA perSecutor.
 She had been given unusual liber- ties at the hospital before her es- cape, even having been allowed to adopt" two subnormal children whom she mothered until 1t was found advisable to take them from her. More recently, hospital attend ants said, she had shown strange affection for cats, treating a num- Der at the hospital as her children