Show MRS SOUTHARD I APPEARS CLOSE GlOSE TU TO BREAKDOWN I Ten Days Jays of Trial Wear Heavily on Defendant Doctor Testifies to Warning Warning Warn Warn- ing Against Her 1 By ROBERT A. A DONALDSON United Press Staff Correspondent TWIN FALLS Ida Oct Oct 7 Peal Fear Fear that Mrs Lyda Southard on trial ora on or ona ona a charge of poisoning her fourth husband husband husband hus hus- band Elward F. F Meyer may momentarily momentarily momen momen- tanily suffer a nervous breakdown was wa freely expressed here today about th the Twin Falls county courthouse and Jail It is obvious even to the casual ob observer observer observer ob- ob server that the first ten days of th the trial have told heavily on her already J nervous temperament She has grown noticeably paler ant and thinner mer since the day court ope opened ed when she appeared d to o be In good health and the b best est of spirits At present sh she appears appes pp ars c et n i S' S Sand and worn Dr J. J F. F atten attending physician physician phy phy- testified that he had been warned several days before Myers Myer's death to look out for poison polson In the c case se Although he said he hesitated to put cr credence dence in the rumors ho asked Meyer If he had any reason to think thinh he had an enemy who wished to tomake make away with him and who might have S SHell poisoned him Hell no was Meyers Meyer's reply according ac ac according according ac- ac I cording to Dr Coughlin WARNING GIVEN i. i Dr Coughlin said he had been given the tho warning Look out for her her she's she's a poi poi- That the defense Is rapidly leading up to its first big move to attempt to win Mrs Southard her freedom on the technicality of incorrect venue was I indicated by the questioning of Attorney I ney fey Homer C. C Mills The state alleges that Mrs Southard administered the killing dose of arsenic arsenic ar ar- ar- ar to her husband at the Twin Falls county hospital after she saw that he had taken a turn for the better and woul would l recover from her original poi poi- I Mills directed his questioning to show that the hospital records in contradiction contradiction con con- I to Dr Coughlin's eyewitness testimony indicate that Meyers Meyer's condition condition condition condi condi- I tion never improved at all especially on the day previous to his death as Dr Coughlin testified and that Me Meyer er never suffered any relapse but merely sank steadily until he died Mills also asked Dr Coughlin whether er If Meyers Meyer's death were due to ptomaine ptomaine ptomaine maine or food poisoning or typhoid the fatal Illness did not originate at atthe atthe atthe the Blue Lakes ranch in Jerome county MAY ASK DISMISSAL ISSAL I Mills' Mills questioning is understood to indicate that he will ask Mrs Southard's Southard's South South- ards ard's dismissal by Judge Babcock on on I the ground of incorrect venue ve ue alleging that tho the charge if any should have been brought in Jerome county In which the Blue Lakes ranch is situ situ- a ted sted The medical testimony centering about Meyers Meyer's mysterious death was continued today Dr Hal Bieler bacteriologist of the I Twin Falls county hospital was the first witness s called Dr Bieler BleIer testified re regarding the tests of Meyers Meyer's blood which he ho made madest at st the request of Dr J J. F. F CoughlIn attending ph physician two da days s 's before Meyers Meyer's death The prosecution believes that it has definitely disposed of any possibility that Wat Meyer died of typhoid by Dr Al AlI Alexander's Alexanders Alxander's Al- Al xander's testimony Dr Alexander I testified that ho he had bad attended Meyer when the latter was ill with typhoid in a 1913 According to both the testimony of Dr Bieler and Dr Duncan Alexander consulting physician who attended Meyer typhoid is practically never contracted contracted con con- again by a patient who has once nce had it although a certain number number num nurn- ber er of typhoid germs may remain inho In tho ho body |