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Show RUTH JUDO ESCAPES HOSPITAL i PI10KNIX. Ariz., Oct. 25 (ljf))Vinni(' Ruth Jiuld, at-irailivo at-irailivo blonde trunk slayer ,' two of her "best girl frii'ntis" in 19:!1. escaped last: 'iijint from 1 ho Arizona state 'hiispital for the insane, by cleverly packing clothes and r-jf. in' her lieil to simulate her 'hrin f'S1"'0- j ..nnnuneemenl of the es'npe ot jtip notorious slayer, who escaped escap-ed tlie p;illows on an instaimy ndor conviction ot I lie mur-lls mur-lls of Agnes Anne LcRoi unci ' Ho. lvitr S;iiiuielson, her fellow jiinst's in Phoenix, was made ot ht (ill ice of Governor Robert T. Jones. The announcement said Mrs. Jm!tl apparently had "gone out 0f a window" alter arranging a dummy in nor bed. Her escape v;is not noticed until this morn-it morn-it was said, several inspections inspec-tions during the night indicating Fhe was asleep on her cot. It was announced at the hospital hospi-tal that Mrs. Judd's escape was discovered "about 9:30 a. m." No uiljlic anouncement came until after noon. The state highway patrol was notified, however, and a description of the murderess was broadcast throughout the ?tite. It was believed at the hospital that Mrs. Judd would head for the nearby Mexicon border, or for Los Angeles, to which place she fled after her original crime. At tiic time of the double mur-dor mur-dor Mrs. Judd's husband. Dr. William Wil-liam Judd, was living in Los An-jt-ies. and her brother, Burton iicKinnell, was a university student stu-dent there. Mrs. Judd hid out for several days in a sanitarium near Los Angeles, where several of her nurse-friends were employed. |