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Title
Purported handwritten confession by murder suspect Winnie Ruth Judd, page 08-recto, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued
October 21-24, 1931
1931-10-21/1931-10-24
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
One page of a seventeen page handwritten document that reads as a confession of Winnie Ruth Judd to the murder of Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson in Phoenix, Arizona in October 1931. According to the Los Angeles times article, the police believed that it was written by Ms. Judd. However, Ms. Judd denied writing it. The document was found in the women's restroom of a Department store in Los Angeles on October 24, 1931, the day after Ms. Judd turn herself in to the police. The text of the note is provided in this article "WRITTEN TRUNK MURDER CONFESSION DISCOVERED: Document Assertedly by Mrs. Judd Found in Store Wash Room; Authenticity Denied," Los Angeles Times , 25 Oct. 1931: 1
Text from negative sleeve: Judd, Winnie Ruth.
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3709_G2260
ark:/21198/z18t0gvn
Language
English
Subject
Homicides--Arizona--Phoenix
Confessions
Judd, Winnie Ruth, 1905-
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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