Genre: news photographs / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Judd, Winnie Ruth, 1905- - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Winnie Ruth Judd is extradited to Phoenix, Arizona to stand trial for the murder of Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson. She is seated in the front passenger seat of an automobile beside Phoenix Sheriff James R. McFadden. The car is in the basement of the Hall of Justice, at 211 W. Temple Street. Phoenix jail matron Jewell Jordan, is in the back seat. Reported in: "SLAYER BEGINS PHOENIX TRIP: Mrs. Judd Pleased as Long Auto Ride Begins Two Cars Carry Officials; Husband Follows Lengthy Conference Held in Jail With Lawyer," Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 1931: A1.
Date:: October 29, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A police detective leans over a pile of soiled fabric. Behind him is an open trunk. These materials were among the luggage that Winnie Ruth Judd used to ship the corpses of Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes Anne LeRoi from Phoenix to Los Angeles by train.
Date:: October 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Detective James McFadden (center) is at a police station to extradite Winnie Ruth Judd to Phoenix to stand trial for the murder of Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes Anne LeRoi. A reporter is on the left.
Date:: October 29, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Winnie Ruth Judd and Chief Detective Joseph Taylor face an officer on the opposite side of a counter during her arrest at a police station. Other men, including two policemen, are behind them.
Date:: October 23, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two men examine a trunk that was used my Winnie Ruth Judd to transport the remains of murder victims Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson.
Date:: October 20, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Police officer M. L. Duvall in a house or cabin that might have been a place where Winnie Ruth Duvall was hiding after arriving in Los Angeles and before she turn herself in on October 23. He stands beside a table with dishes and paper bags while holding a spatula.
Date:: October 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Murder suspect Winnie Ruth Judd and her attorney Paul Schenck, probably at the Georgia Street Receiving Hospital where she had a bullet wound in her hand treated (1335 Georgia Street).
Date:: October 23, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Winnie Ruth Judd, murder suspect, gives herself up. Immediately to the right are defense council members Richard Cantillon (L) and Louis Russill (R). Chief Detective Joseph Taylor (center) wears a hat. Reported in "MRS. JUDD GIVES SELF UP; ADMITS SHE KILLED PAIR: Both Slain in Self-Defense, Says Woman Who Asserts "Sammie" Shot Her in Hand First," Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 1931: 1
Date:: October 23, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Chief Detective Joseph Taylor (left) watches as Winnie Ruth Judd is arrested; she watches the officer on the other side of the counter as he writes. She is accompanied by her lawyers, Louis P. Russill (directly behind her) and Richard Cantillon (R). The room is filled with other men.
Date:: October 23, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left: Winnie Ruth Judd, her husband W. C. Judd and Detective Joseph Taylor, on the day she turned herself in and was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson. They are standing outside of a holding cell at a police station.
Date:: October 23, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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