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Show WHOLESALE POISON Ml SISPEITEi y ! HAN KILLED MATES FOR IHRA1E Married Five Times; Husbands Hus-bands Die Unexpectedly, Is Claim NAME IS WITHHELD Cleveland Has Case Like That ofLyda Southard in Idaho CLEVELAND, May 2 Acting on I orders of County Prosecutor Edward C, Stanton. Coroner A P Hammond ; was expected tod to exhume the j body of a man burled here and to examine ex-amine It for traces of poison, which, i if found, Is expected to result In the prosecution of a woman for a series of murders committed for $11 000 in-I 9urance. The post-mortem examination was ordered follow ing the questioning of ; the woman who Ls bein held on charges which have no connection With the murders. The woman under suspicion Is known to have been married five times and recently Is said to hove acquired her sixth husband. Three ot her husbands.. hus-bands.. Prosecutor Stanton said, died under mysterious circumstances. In addition, he said, twO children by her first marriage died from what was claimed at the time to be accidental poisoning. The woman was divorced from her first two husbands. iicr third husband dud in I'lttsburg. March 1917 and her fourth in the same city In 1919, Stafoton said. The children also died m tiiat city, ill SBANDe INsi RED The third husband, Stanton said, carried $muo Insurance, while the fourth was Insured for J5000 Her fifth husband was a former soldier. She married him in Pittsburg seven months after the death "of her i fourth husband and came here to live. I He died suddenly about a year ago. leaving government insurance or 6000. Efforts to have this increased to $10,000 failed. The woman claimed that death in I this instance was due to her husband having been gassed overseas, and no physician was called, Stanton said. No traces of disability in the government gov-ernment records of this man could be found, according to Stanton. The queer circumstances were re- i ported to Prosecutor Stanton by offl- j cials of. the Red Cross, which since ' her arrest, has been caring for two i children of the woman by her second marriage. INVESTIGATION M Il PITTSBURG, May 1 County au-'j thorltlCB and officials of the fitts- burs chapter of the American Ited Cross were highly Interested today in the report from Cleveland that a woman wo-man arretted there was being questioned ques-tioned In connection with the deaths of three of her husbands. Investigators Investigat-ors for the Red Cross here and at Cleveland haw been working on the case for three years, it woh .-aid. Robert Braun. chief of Alleghany county detectives and Red Cross officers offi-cers re-called the story surrounding tin.-death tin.-death of the woman's fourth husband at Dormont. a suburb, in 1&19. Tho man, named Stuart, was in perfect health at the time of his marralge, they said, in a few months he died under mysterious circumstances, Braun declared that an autopsy failed to disclose thi' cause of death, because it was performed after embalming, but ii Red Cross investigator said that an analysis of the vital organs disclosed disclos-ed indications of poisoning. This poison. poi-son. It was announced) could have resulted re-sulted from certain Illnesses. Both the detectives and Ited Cross officials refused to disclose the woman's wo-man's name, saying that their Investigations Investi-gations were not complete. |