APPEAL REJECTED

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1932, Page 3

APPEAL REJECTED

AMERICAN MURDERESS.

VANCOUVER, December 13. Mrs Winnie Ruth Judd, murderess of her two women friends, will pay the penalty lor her extraordinary crime on the gallows. Her last hope, an appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court, was rejected. It is more than a year since the discovery of a trunk b v railway officials at Los Angeles revealed the dismembered bodies of two women. They were identified as Mrs Agnes h J Roi and Miss Hedviv Samuelson, two of Mrs Judd’s friends, and the trunk had been sent by '."ail from Phoenix (Arizona) to Los Angeles. Soon after the police had started tiiein (investigations into /the crime Mrs Winnie Ruth Judd surrendered to the Los Angeles detectives. She had tried to commit suicide, and when taken into custody had a bullet wound in her wrist. - At the appeal against her death sentence, which was concluded before the Arizona Supreme Court, ' Mrs Judd’s counsel raised the plea that she had committed the crime under “an irresistible impulse.” The three appeal apneal Judges refused to entertain it. “We cannot recognise this doctrine as a true test of insanity,” they said. . At her trial it was suggested by the defence that some master mind had ordered her to carry out the murderi and had stood over her while she committed them, and completed the packing of tbe dismembered bodies. Mrs Judd will he the fourth woman to he executed in the United States. Mrs Snyder, who was electrocuted, with Harry Judd Gray, at Sing Sing, for the murder of her,husband in January, 1928, was the third, and at that, time the first for 19 years.