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...weeks later, Jack Blair, who also had run a store in Ava, got a cashier's check for $100 in his mail. Soon two more checks came for two other ex-merchants of Ava: $100 for Brush Judd, $150 for Luther Story. Mr. Story did not have his glasses on when his letter came, thought at first the check was an advertising coupon and started to throw it away. In the same strange manner, a $100 check came for Mrs. Grace Singleton, whose husband died last June. Widow Singleton used the money to pay off a note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Angel of Ava | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...person he had executed about $50,000 worth. They included Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, Sacco & Vanzetti, Hauptmann. On his biggest day-Jan. 6, 1927 -he executed three in the early morning for Massachusetts, three that night for New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Executioner | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Winnie Ruth Judd was blonde, slim, shapely, 26. That was the day she killed her friends. Many times in the next 15 months, passionate Mrs. Judd earned in full her newspaper nickname "The Blonde Tigress." She dropped her hysteria, her fits of blank staring, only when an impressionable jury had saved her from a scaffold-drop by judging her insane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tigress Loose | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...manner, went quietly to her bed in a small private room inside the locked doors and barred windows of the Arizona State Hospital for the insane. Not till 11 o'clock next morning did attendants jerk down the covers to see why 34-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd wasn't up & about. They found rags, shoes, bottles, soap neatly arranged as a Mrs. Judd-size dummy, but no Mrs. Judd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tigress Loose | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Winnie Ruth Judd stuffed cans of soup, spaghetti, bread and a jar of jelly in a pillow case, stole two pairs of shoes, left a maundering letter to Governor Robert T. Jones, and slipped out. For 15 minutes she appeared at the nearby bedside of her invalid, 80-year-old father, then vanished in the night. Police watched her invalid 56-year-old husband, Dr. William C. Judd, in Sawtelle, Calif., Hospital Superintendent Louis Saxe broadcast a promise: she could run the prison beauty parlor if she'd return. One night this week a burglar fled from a Phoenix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tigress Loose | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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