Evening star., 1939-12-16
Ruth Judd Tells Police
True Story Of Crime
In Asking for Trial
Friend Hired Physician to
Dissect Bodies, She Says,
Naming AecompIices
~ the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 16.-The
story Winnie Ruth Judd wants to
tell from the witness stand-of kill
Ing two women friends in self-de-
tense and of having an accomplice
who hired physician to dissect one
Of the bodies-teday was in the
hands of officers who returned the
mad slayer to the Arizona State
Hospital for the Insane.
After giving a detailed, connected
account of the 8-year-old killings,
the "a year old stenographer
escaped - days ago-the second
time in six weeks-"because I
couldn't stand staying all the time
In one room full of screaming, raw
ing. sick, dying people"
Shouting Historically that they're
going to cut my head off" Mrs. Judd
was placed in ward of a new build
ing from which authorities said
escape would be more difficult. Hos
pital officials said she would be
watched constantly.
Captured in Yuma.
Footsore and weary from IL days
of hiking almost 200 miles across
the desert, Mrs. Judd was captured
In Yuma shortly after noon yester-
day. as she was making a telephone
call to friends in Los Angeles asking
them to arrange for her husband,
DR. w. c. Judd, to meet her in
Yuma last night. She said she
hadn't eaten for week.
During a five-hour drive to Phoe-
nix, Mrs. Judd told Sheriff T. H.
Newman and newsmen what she
said was true story of the mur-
ders of Agnes Ann Leroi and Hedvig
Samuelson, October Is, 1881
Her detailed account was an elab-
grafton of statements contained in
a l2-page letter written before she
fled the hospital. In it she claimed
she killed the two women during a
fight, and that friend hired a
physician to dissect the body of Miss
Samuelson so the two would fit into
trunks which were shipped to Los
Angeles. 1t named the physician
and the friend who employed him.
Story of Killings.
She said she quarreled with Miss
Samuelson and Mrs Leroi, who was
employed at a local clinic. They
threatened to tell DR.. Judd she had
been stepping out" with another
man and she retaliated with threat
to disclose they we're perverts.
Miss Samuelson came at me with
a small automatic Mrs. Judd said.
"I grabbed butcher knife and
stabbed her twice in the 0eft
shoulder. The knife bent double.
Then as I grabbed for the gun I
was shot in the hand, right there.
(She pointed to her left hand which
was wounded at the time of her ar
rest I caught hold of her hand
and twisted it, and Sammy was shot
by the gun which was still in her
hand. The gun fell to the floor" T"
She said Mrs. Leroi then attacked
her with an ironing board and while
they we're tumbling about on the
floor she recovered the gun and shot
her.
Friend Took Care of Bodies.
After she returned to her own
apartment a friend came by while
I was still very excited" and said
he would get some one to take care
of the bodies" Mrs. Judd claimed
she never saw the bodies after she
fed from the duplex apartment oc-
cupied by the women.
Il couldn't have done that" she
said of the surgery. Il knew moth
ing about surgery"
Physicians had commented on the
evidence of skilled surgery in the
dissection.
All of this. Mrs Judd said she
wanted to tell from the witness
stand. Since her attorneys denied
her the privilege in her trial for
killing Mrs. Leroi, she wants to be
tried for killing Miss Samuelson.
AS an alternative, Mrs. Judd said
she should be given insulin and
metrozol treatments to cure her
She insisted she had received nc
medical treatment at the hospital
Mrs. Judd said mo one can know
how sorry I am" for the crime. 81
have cried every day, every night
for years over it," she said. 1T was
something I didn't have six seconds