NURSES MURDERED

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1931, Page 6

NURSES MURDERED

TRAGEDY AT LOS ANGELES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 Following her husband’s public plea that she wouid surrender, Mrs Ruth .Judd gave herself up to the police for enquiry into the murders. Ihe woman asserted that site quarrelled with the two murdered nurses, one of whom shot her in the hand, while tire other struck her with an ironing board, whereupon she siezed a revolver from the former and killed both. The woman's • hysterical condition prevented a detailed investigation. [A cable message from Los Angeles, dated October 20th, reported : —A slight blonde woman, aged 27, tlje daughter of a clergyman, and wife of a physician, is sought as the alleged perpetrator of a murder plot in which two young woman were killed and their bodies shipped in trunks from her to Phoenix, Arizona. Her husband is under technical arrest. A brother of the supposed,, murderess told the police that a young woman confessed to him the murder of two girls, who worked in the Phoenix M d-

iH-il Clidic. Railway station agents nbticed blood seeping from the trunks which the woman brought with her to Phoenix, this resulting in the discovery of the bodies, whereupon they traced the alleged killer by her mot-or-car number. Bullets apparently caused the death of one victim, whose body was expertly dissected, but motives for the, crime, possible accomplices, and virtually all other pertinent details are unknown.]