Show MEYER ILLNESS CHART BEfORE JURY I Admission of Hospital R Record Record Rec Rec- c. c ord Hailed as Defense Vict Victory ry VIN T TWIN FALLS Ida Oct 29 Con 29 Con Consistent maneuvering as the trial of or I Mrs Lyda Southard alleged five five- time prepared to enter its seventh straight week with the open- open ling I ing of court Monday gained a favorable favorable favorable favor- favor able point for the defense In the admission of the hospital chart gIvIng giving giving ing In de detail taU the last Illness Ulness of ot Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward F. F Meyer the accused womans woman's fourth husband with whose murder she is la specifically charged The chart has been a center of controversy since the opening of the I trial First the state endeavored to Introduce it but after heated argument argument argument ment on defense objections the court ruled against its ito admission Later when the defense attempted to bring in the chart objections on the part vart art artof of the prosecution resulted in Its being ruled out by the court The defense continued its efforts during the week to introduce the chart but failed until it placed Dr John F. F CoughlIn attending physician to Meyer on the stand and by clever manipulation of questions succeeded in presenting the entire contents of ot tho the chart before the Jury The chart is considered a factor In Inthe Inthe inthe the support of the hypothetical question question question ques ques- tion by which the defense hopes to satisfy its stand that Meyer as well as three former husbands and a their death law in came to from natural causes and not arsenical poisoning as charged by the state in inthe inthe inthe the prosecution of Mrs Southard |