San Miguel County NM Archives News.....Shoots In Self Defense April 2, 1902
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Maquoketa Record April 2, 1902
Maquoketa Record
April 2, 1902

Shoots in Self Defense
Mrs. G. E. Walker of Miles, Iowa, Kills her Assailant.

A special telegram from Las Vegas, N. M., Saturday conveyed the news that Mrs.
G. E. Walker of Miles, Iowa, who has been spending the winter there for her
health, had shot and killed J. S. Judd of Topeka, Kansas, the day previous, in
self-defense.

Mr. Walker is one of the successful farmers of Jackson county, and is a heavy
taxpayer in Iowa township. He owns about 400 acres of choice, well-improved
land, and has about $6,000 listed for taxation. He pays a tax of $140.  He is
one of the prominent men of his township, and he and his estimable wife stand
high in the estimation of the people.

The dispatch further states: "No one saw the shooting. Judd drove to town from
the Montezuma hotel at the Hot Springs. He went to Mrs. Walker's apartments,
ostensibly to procure some photographic negatives she had borrowed from Mrs.
Judd. A few moments later there was a shot. Mrs. Walker came down stairs,
handed her revolver to her landlord, told him Judd had attacked her, and she
had killed him. Then she telegraphed her husband that she had killed a man and
asking him to come at once.

"Mrs. Walker is calm. She says this was Judd's fourth attack upon her, and
that, being alone with no one within call, she had no alternative, and shot to
protect herself.

"Mrs. Walker was here alone. She is thirty-five years of age and a remarkably
handsome woman, a brunette, extremely tall and graceful, brilliant eyes. She
came from her home in Iowa last fall. For a time she maintained apartments in
the same residence where Mr. and Mrs. Judd were quartered.

"Her apartments now are over a photographer's gallery near the heart of the
town.  Two young women shared her apartments, neither were present when Judd
called. On entering her rooms she says he asked if she was alone, and was told
that she was. She says she withdrew to her bedroom to procure the negatives,
and that he followed her. He threw his arm around her, she says, and she
struggled with him until she reached her revolver, which was on a table near
the bed. She fought with Judd, pressed the revolver against his head, and
fired. Judd fell to the floor without a cry or movement."




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