Show I Insurance Believed Motive for Slaying TWIN F FALLS Ida Aug 20 Charged specifically with tho the murder murd r rf of f her to fourth rth husban Edward P. P l e Meyer cr and suspected of h having similarly simi larl disposed of ot three former husbands husbands hus hue bands and a law brother Lyda Southard Is Is' In Jail h here re awaiting the tho September term of ot conr court when h her r cas case 15 Is set for hearing She I Iwas was returned here from Honolulu In May ota At Ier pr preliminary arraignment arraign ment she sho was as denied ball bail The three months months' c confinement r have set the mark of ot prison pallor on her hor face bce She la thin prem prematurely tureh aged a a. tr tragic gl specter of ot the bc beautiful ut woman six burled buried four foul who ho within years I I hu husbands bands and charmed a fifth firth to the tho altar Since her arrival here or officials preparing pre pre- I paring the the states state's case ase against Mrs Southard have Ve delved into eVer every de det detail de t tail of ot her past life Ute Investigations started in connection with Meyers Meyer's rs r's I Id d demise led lcd to suspecting the woman r of of other murd murders rs Details surrounding surround surround- ing the death of ot each supposed d victim vic vic- vie 1 I tim tm are nrc uniformly obscure and my my- my j I and In each In cir cir- clr 1 II I found which point c were the finger Inger of oC suspicion at Lyda Lda Southard Southard South South- I I ard It I Is said I IA j A resume of ot her career and the I known on the various deaths I seems to furnish a motive mothe for Cor the tho I j I l a alleged ged crimes crime In Insurance collections 1 I I tiers M SlY iv tho A directing the tho pro ecu ecu- t Ulon Frank L L. Stephan n. county count atI at- at J ton anticipates no trouble In InI I p ft her guilt COLLECTS INSURANCE The accused was vas born at nt Ketes yule Mo to In 1893 Several years cars rs later latr I she he moved with her parents Mr Ir and And Andl l Mrs Irs W. W J. J to Kimber i 1 I n nar ar Filer In this county She was wag i married at nt Twin Falls March tarch 17 I I 1912 to Robert C C. whom who she had known In Missouri and w who o thon was farming near Filer Edward Dooley Doole a brother came cam to live tI w with Ith I J the newly married couple Tho The took out a l Joint Insurance policy n naming her beneficiary Edward Edward Ed- Ed I I ward Dooley died A August U 9 9 1915 In G. G after a ten da days das s Illness and the policy of ot 2000 on his life me was paid the following do day I I I I On October 1 1916 1915 the hu husband died and the widow 2500 2500 on his life lIro His Uis Illness and demise were VCr very similar to that of his i brother and t typhoid was given as asI I th the cau cause e of death By Robert Hobert Doole Dooley Mrs Irs Southard had one child Laura Mary I r who died between 2 and 3 J years jears of ot age ase also supposedly from typhoid Officers declare however however however how how- ever that Mr Mrs Southard had be beenS been n S seen seen to beat the child frequently and andi i express a belief that the tho Infant was starved to d death ath I II i i It was wax not until June 1917 that Mrs Mis IS Southard again ventured matri matri- man mony Her second husband w was s William G G. G a waller on n whose life the Idaho State te Life Lite In Insurance In j company o pan JS Issued SUei a policy with I Ithe the wife as beneficiary died nt at ot Mont lont October r 22 1918 1118 the woman reporting the cause of or de death Jl as S Influenza and diphtheria i MARRIES AGAIN I IOn i On March tarch 10 10 1919 Mrs Irs Southard I married Harlan C C. C Lewis at Denver Colo Lewis had an auto truck agency at Billings s Mont where on Juno June 14 of th the same year he applied for tor policy with the New World Life Lite Insurance company Less than thana a month after Issuance of ot tho policy on July 6 6 1919 Lewis died Dr James Jame's I I. I Vernham of or Billings certified certified fied tied death to have hae been from acute gastro enteritis On submitting proof of death by ptomaine poisoning tho the widow collected the tho in Insurance urance nce mone money Her fourth venture ent ro Into matrimony occurred at Pocatello Ida where whore on August 10 10 1 1920 20 sh she married Edward dward F. F Meyer for tor tho the alleged murder of ot whom she Is now awaiting trial Meyer teer was foreman at tho the Blue La Lakes es ranch near here He was waa 25 years old Meyer eer sought a life Insurance policy pol poi Ic icy with the Idaho State Life Lite Insurance anco ance company for tor 2000 After discussing din dis cussing the matter with his wife he heis heis heIs is Is said to have havo returned d with a re request request request re- re quest that tho thol policy be raised to This was done done- and the naming t the to le w woman man as bene- bene was Issued d. d On the same lamo day Meyer I Is said sald to hayo made a awill awill awill will bequeathing all hi his property Including in including In- In eluding a twenty acre acre farm val valued ed edat at 1 to his wife ARSENIC FOUND Less than a month after alter their marriage on S September 7 7 1920 Meyer Moyer died following a a. ten day ill ill- ness A postmortem examination was held over the bod body and later an nn anau au autopsy topsy was conducted Chemical analysis of or the stomach revealed re d an nn excessive amount of or arsenic present Other organs ans of or the bod body showed the effects of arsenic action It is said Following this the other bodies were exhumed State Chemists Harms of oC Utah and of Idaho respectively reported the presence pres pre ence enco of ot unusual quantities of or arsenic in In tho the stomachs of or the tho two Lewis and Meyer In the theca ca case o of or Meyer eyer tho the woman failed to collect Insurance mone money it la Is said She never made claim for tor the say Bay officials who bellevo believe that she was restrained by fear rear of or Investigation ton Hon Prosecutor Prosecutor- Stephan has evidence which he believes will prove proe that Mrs Southard used diabolical cunning In contriving to pol poison on her husbands It Is bell believed that she extracted tho arsenic from flypaper and mixed It with food Arsenic poisoning In such fashion would account for the peculiar peculiar liar symptoms evidenced b by the dying men it is said GOES TO HONOLULU Subsequent to Meyers Meyer's death the the woman married Paul Vincent Southard Southard Southard South South- ard a petty pett officer in the thu United I States nn navy y at Los Angeles November Novem Novem- I ber ier 28 1920 From Irom there thero she accompanied I Southard to a n change chango of I station f at nt Honolulu where she he was traced after aeter a search of ot several weeks I Ihen When hen the charges were first brought t i against his wife Ite Southard denied I that she had urged him to take out Insurance He Is said to have later II admitted that thit she did BO so urge but has expressed ed himself as us confident of I her Innocence Through ap appeal appeal ap- ap ap peal peat to the na navy department i iwas was transferred to tho mainland and i later given furlough h t tio so o as to b be bp with his hs wife Ire during the preliminary hear hear- I ing It Is expected that t he will be on nn I hand when tho the trial opens next i I month I Mrs MIH Southard was vas returned hero heroIn in May from Honolulu by br Deputy I Sheriff V. V H H. Orm Ormsby by who played an on important role roJe in tracing the alleged j murderess and in effecting her arrest Ill H H. Swanson will present the local lodge loge with tho the largest American flag flagIn flagIn In Utah Tho The Elks will Itt be guests of Manager Swanson at a special program program pro pro- gram grain of ot pictures and music At p. p m. m they will r return turn to th the club for dancing and entertainment Saturday morning the first business business business busi busi- ness session of ot the convention will be held Officers for the tho state association tion will bo el elected at this meeting Salt SnIt Lakes Lake's prize winning dri drip l team will go through the same sa-me maneuvers which won second prize in the tho national national na na- competition at Los Angeles s InJune in inJune inJune June during during- tho the afternoons afternoon's celebration celebration celebration tion Saturday at one of ot the resorts A boxing and wrestling match dancing dane dane- ing ng and a banquet will witt bo be other tea lea tur tures of s' s the evening Tho The general committee will wilt visit the various anous lodges ledges of the state this week to make final arrangements to take care of or each delegation |