The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 13, 1921, Page 4

Alleged Mrs. Bluebeard Says Lost Love Early in Life | Wrecked Happiness TWIN FALLS, Idaho, June 13 Preliminary hearing of Mrs. Lydia | > Bouthard, “alleged minine Blue % ." who is accused of poisoning four husbands and a brother-in-law fm order to collect their insurance, Was this morning postponed to WPhursday by Probate Judge O, P.| "Duval, pefore whom it was scheduled to be heard today Postponement was taken on agree ment of counsel, neither side being | Feady to proceed with the hearing it was stated. IK ASKS FOR Z DY TRIAL ) The accused woman has at last sen the silence she had majn | Honolulu several weeks ago. At) her arraignment she demanded a speedy trial, decluring confidently she would be cleared when & facts were made kno@n thard accuses the state of “fram Ming’ its case against her s have tried to destroy my and happiness,” she sald. even dug up the body of my little baby on suspicion that I poisoned it—or to plant susp! against me. They want to take life. Now | ami ready and deter: to fight. Let the trial come tt Southard is staying with her She has met many old since her return, | "If my folks had permitted me fo, the man I first loved as a girl, | whole life might have been dif xy were too strict with me. I start my life the way I want- to, and things have seemed to ‘wrong ever since.” from the time of her arrést/ | Mrs. | me HERE’S MORE ABOUT MAN HUNT STARTS ON PAGE ONE Gardner stuck him up with a con cealed gun. Hé had his shackles on his guard when I got back to the stateroom and it was easy for him to pull the same thing on my gfard Falls, Idaho, was the heart } on made to him by Mrs. says Sheriff H. V. Ormsby, af Twin plaint over a lost first love “the only hint of self-pity or ty revealed to her custodian nemesis €n the long voyage the Pacific And mention of } two-year-old baby she is accused ing poisoned brought the only of agitation. characterizes Mrs, South- Tow married to a fifth husband, sphynx upon whom the horrid tions of, poisoning six people had no visible effect. NEVER WEEPS; 1S BAFFLING mever weeps,” he eald. “She parently devoid of “emotion. is amazing. In my long of the law I have never I know she has fooled others.” thard said she believed to be a typhoid “carrier,” that several of her hus- oy mole have died nat 0 contracted. She 4 that this might be the her defense. ; examination, however, by r. J. L. Schwartz of the naval at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dr. R. G. Ayer, of Honolulu, her arrest there, proved, ancounced, that the woman &@ disease carrier. ¥ .” added Sheriff by, wouldn't account for the arse- ‘we have proof she secured and of which were found in the bodies.” -& curious episode which tested er remarkable composure occurred | } San Francisco, when she was ited to see a vaudeville show. feature was a sketch based on of the occult in wringing a con- from a murderer. There marked analogy between the | of the killer @nd her own| as the state of Idaho has stat- bd it in the indictments. _ Mrs. Southard, spated beside the and his wife, watched the without the twitch of an eye- laughing heartily at subsequent oh w _ “During the weeks she has been "4p tiny custody,” commented Ormsby, the only sign of worry has been ond] lapses of silence when stares blankly at the wall.” Bhe is a elender, dainty, well- omed woman of 30, blue-eyed, haired and with a certain phys- allure. During two days of di on permitted her in San Fran- 9 before departing for Twin howed an almost childish in simple things. 1 iG WORRIES HYNX WOMAN” ‘The purported “Mrs. Bluebeard” “stoutly maintains her innocence. “I am not worried,” she asserts. “My conscience is clear and I have documentary proof of the causes of ‘the deaths charged to me. I know I can clear myself.” Realization on life insurance poli- _ Gies carried by her husbands is the ‘alleged motive in the deaths for Which she must stand trial. “Life insurance was no object to ,” is her answer. “I have had jh money,” Mrs. Southard has been reconciled With her parents from whom she been long estranged. They, to-| ether with her fifth husband, P. V. “Bouthard, petty naval officer, will stand by her. Of the dead with whom she lived | for periods ranging from two years | to two months, she does not speak. Only of her baby—oecasionally. _/ She evinces little interest in what | People are saying of her. She doesn’t ask to see newspapers. She | | smiles and banters occasionally like & girl of 14. Mentally, says Sheriff , she is not alert. A lassi. tude hangs upon her. This sluggishness contrasts sharp- _ ly with the Lyda Southard as she once was—"A woman who loved | show and automobiles, who fre | quented places of amusement, liked _ to spend money and loved adula-| ' tion,” as Ormsby puts it. CHICAGO—Marriage license ts. gued to H. M. Merritt, 61, and Mcs. Louisa Vausln, 3, Ki “He made me go with him and we struck north. Gardner's com. pass. always points north, he says, but when hestold me we would fight if overtaken I couldnt stand it. 1 left him and came back towards Kelso. “Il would bave shot him as we went out of the coach at Castle Rock, but one of the guards shook his head at me and.I didn't. 1 fol lowed him out onto the ground. He was suspicious. He told me to walk ahead of him. I ran. I ran down the track about 500 yards and turned off into the brush. He went the other way.” Pyron’s escape was the second of his career. Three years ago he elud- ed his guards as he was being taken to prison. When he was again pick- ed up, he was running a strawberry farm in California. He bore an ex- cellent reputation among his neigh- bors. Pyron was lodged in the Kelso Jail last night and will probably be taken on north to’ McNeil's island penitentiary today, where he will serve'a long term for counterfeit ing. Pyron and his guards joined Gardner and his guards at Dun: muir, Caf, his guards going ag far north as Vancouver, Wash., where United States Thomas Mulhall and a deputy took charge of both prison. ers. e The hunt for Gardner centered last night in the swamp near the ceme- tery here, where it was reported a man of.his description had been seen skulking early in the evening. A cordon of possemen surrounded the swamp and waited. $5,000 REWARD FOR GARDNER Not a sound came from the swamp during the night. If the convict is inside the cordon, it is deemed likely he will try to crawl thru the line to get food. x A reward of $5,000 is offered for him, dead or alive, by the Southern Pacific, a road which’ has suffered from his banditry, He is armed with a 25-20 police revolver and about 12 rounds of ammunition, according to Pyron. Marine Engineers Reject Proposal NEW YORK, June 13.— Striking marine engineers had rejected the latest proposal for settlement of the nation-wide strike, which began on May 11. The proposal, which was offered thru government mediation, con tained a 15 per cent wage reduction Engineers’ representatives voted it| down yesterday and forwarded their answer to Washington today, Six ‘Deaths in Belfast Riot|% BELFAST, June 13.—Fierce fac- tional disturbances continued here today, threatening to increase the week-end death list of six. Fighting here over Saturday and Sunday developed more savagely than at any time previous, Intense Sinn Fein‘ activity led to the fear that King George might be influ eficed to postpone his proposed trip here June 22 to open the Ulster par. lament. The “execution” of three Sinn Feiners Saturday night led to the disturbances, which occurred in every section of the city Cabaret Ordinance to Come Up Today? Whether or not the cabaret ordi nance will come before the city coun cil Monday afternoon is still unde. termined. Ever since the cabaret bill was favorably reported out of the license committee members of | the council have held up action on the measure on the plea that they want more time with which to study | its provisions, Opposition to the ordinance is| based on the grounds that it is leg-| islation for the silk-stocking cabarets | in the uptown districts, and that it| discriminates aguinst the Pegers' | resorts below Yesler way, | United States lana office cidacte| moved from the Central to the Donald building. | — - — — -! When in Seattle, eat at Boldt's— Advertisement, | leading he This is the latest picture of Mrs. Lyda Southard, alleged woman “Bluebeard,” taken just after she had arrived in San | Francisco from Honolulu. | 3 ARE KILLED Automobile Strack by a Seattle-Tacoma inter urban train, passing jat 65 miles an hour, three jof an automobile were killed & jafternoon and a fourth was |ly injured, were carried 600 track before the stopped. The dead are: Joe Gillmette, and his wife, and George | Burris, 60. Gilimette and }lived at Auburn and were employed as switehmen by the Northern Pa railroad. | ap feet train along Taylor-Lacey hospital at Auburn said. the speeding” train. motorma& .on the interurban lim. have failed to hear the signals. said the bell was ringing. 100 yi jafter hitting the machine. | WOMAN DIES ON WAY TO HOSPITAL Tear séut, were thrown out first. | Neither was dead thrown out later and dead. Mrs. Gillmette died aboard the train while efforts were being made to reach the hospital, The accident was not witnessed | Brakeman A. H. Rockwell. Mr, and Mrs, Gillmette and Mr. and Mrs. Burris had lived in Au burn several years. No relatives are known to survive the former couple. ‘The latter had two sons and a mar. ried daughter, eee 2 Killed, 3 Hurt in Spokane Auto Smash SPOKANE, June 13.—Mrs. Christy Goulette, 18, and Jacob Rohler, 7, were killed and three others serious. ly injured here Sunday afternoon when an automobile In which they were attempting to climb Adams st hill backed down and crashed into a wall, The injured are: Mr. and Mrs. Gene Goulette, 48 and 47, respective ly, and Tommy Goulette, 7. Wash., was driving, oF . Autos Collide; Man : i Seriously Injured Frank Calero, of 702 Seventh ave. was taken to the city hospital suffering from concussion of the brain, following an auto smash at First ave. 8, and Holgate st. Sunday afternoon. An automobile driven by H. 8. Stoltenberg, of Puyallup, going east on Holgate st. was struck by Ca- lero’s machine, which is said to have been traveling at high speed on First ave. S., smashing the entire front end of Stoltenberg’s car and turning a complete revolution in the air, landing right side up, 60 feet a ainst a bridge railing. Calero was found unconscious, ly- ing about 10 feet from hig machine, and was taken to the city hospital, where it was found that he was suf. fering from a fractured skull and in. ternal injuries. It is belie that he will recover. Stoltenbe who was uninjured, said Calero had 15 feet cleardn no attempt to turn out fo striking Stol violence. c I 1 to have been the cause ecident. of the 3-Year-Old Boy Is Drowned in Lake Richard William: Williams, Kirkland, w Lake Union Sunday while playing near his grandmother's houseboat at 2940 Westlak ve, N. Richard was playing on a board walk up to the street from the eboat when it is thought he mbled and fell into the lake be. The child creams were he but the boy sank before belp came. son of Bert drowned in low BY INTERURBAN {Tacoma Train Crashes Into Algona station jf} nteih) Parts of the automobile the |}! could be Le Burris DITION MUCH | IMPROVED MONDAY Mrs. G. I, Burris, 54, was put aboard the train and rushed to the Her condiffton Monday morning was much improved, hospital authorities Witnesses gay the automobile drove on the track just in front of H. BE. Hare, ited, statedto.Coroner W. H. Corson that the driver of the machine must He He saw the machine when he was my and put bis motor, in reverse while blowing his whistle. The train slid more than 500 yards The two women, occupying the The men were both were by either Conductor U. Condit or Geng Goulette, foreman of a mill at Elk,| 1$12,000 BOOZE LOAD CAPTURED Taken From Launch; Four Men Aboard Arrested Arrested late Saturday to Seattle Sunday, four composing the the launch Nora 1-36 were held tn the city jail Monday while federal charges of booze running were be ing prepared against them, As evi- dence, quor valued at $12,000 is in the custody of the customs. Tho men gave thelr names as H. | Westover, 68; Chris Skrorbal, 38; |Martin Peterson, 28, and John Lar son, 28. The quartet were arrested when Capt. 1. A. Lonsdale, of the coast guard cutter Arcata, halted the Nora and found the liquor eached aboard |The Arcata was cruising on regular patrol duty about half way between Bellingham and Anacortes when the | launch ling. Four blasts of the cutters | whistle and the Nora hove to, The men did not offer to resist, Capt Lonsdale stated. The liquor is believed to be part of @ large shipment reported to have ta Canadian port on the schooner Lady Mine, for which the customs have been searching for several days. and brought men crew of | | | Auto | Upsets; Woman Striking a pile of brick on thi Fremont bridge at 1 a m. Monday, when trying to avoid a street car, an auto driven by R. BE, Wiles over. turned, painfully injuring Mrs. Mary MacDonald, who was returning from a day's outing at Bitter Lake in company with Wiles, Mrs. Mac Donald was taken to the Virginia st hospital, where she is said to be suf. fering from body bruises. An Extraordinary 50c Cold Cream 50c Perfume 50c Face Powder $1.50 Vanity alone 4 Ne Te ek set is $1.50. SALE PRICE Girls’ khaki twill. « \]| OFFERING .THE GREAT | The materials offered in | of them, at less than cost | is a money saver, $4.50 Fancy Dress Taffeta .$2.45 3.00 Charmeuse Satin, 40 inches ..., see to 5.00 Printed Silks and Satins .. Sports Silks seve fl Striped Shirting Silks Hemstitched lette Sports Tussah, 2.15 | 8.50 6.50 2.00 4.50 8.00 Navy Duvetyne 9.50 Block Duvetyne 4... 9 8.00 Black Chiffon Velvet. 4.69 3.25 Black Charmeuse | Satin eye er | 4.50 Black Canton Crepe.. 2.95 1.00 White Japanese Silk, 69 | 1.76 Imported Chinese Pongeo . sees 1,69 2.00 Chinese Imported | POngeed cesseeeees 1,39 THE SEATTLE STAR was sighted Saturday even | Is Painfully Hurt! This Sale Shows the Lowest Prices You Have Scen Since Before the War HERE’S MORE ABOUT BOYCOTT STARTS ON PAGE ONE lan, proprietor of a big Broadway store, today told The Star, “The other retailers are swinging into line fast. We have received dozens of lettors from Seattle wholesale men dmitting the justice of our com int and pledging their efforts to p us correct the discrimination The druggists’ association by let |ter has asked the Commercial club, |the Rotary club, the Kiwanis club, |K Street Boosters’ club, South Ta ma Business Men's club and the AM. vertising club to tndorse the move ment Woman's club work to push the boycott. portunity a ptt until st ‘4 its opposition to “Mt lit is barely started. oe and Commercial Club, Thomas, executive secretary, committee of repre itlated there “The repor der investigation,” sald “and has been for some time, derstanding, Combination Offer 1-2 Price for the Set $3.00 is regular price of the set SALE PRICE $1.50 All perfumed with that exquisite odor—Mavis— well-known to the women of Seattle. The Cold Cream—if purchased alone..........50c The Perfume—if purchased alone.............50¢ The Face Powder—3 shades—if purchased The Twin Gold-plated Vanity, which contains both compact powder and rouge—if purchased But if all articles are purchased together, a $3.00 First Floor Regular $1.25 Quality | Misses’ Bloomers 95¢ Bloomers — wi hite and black sateen, and Misses’ Section, Third Floor Silks and Dress Goods |braith, Jr, Some already have done this The Rotary club refused to take of- ficial action, but the oral vote was so close that the chairman had to smand the members stand in order stermine that the noes had tt has adopted resolutions and put a committee at The Mount Tacoma club has been quick to take advantage of an op- 4 has indorsed a boy- ch time as Seattle with: Taco- And the backers of the boycott say ‘Commerce Chamber | Here Takes Action The Seattle Chamber of Commerce reported today by the senate com thru Christy >. today | announced there will be a meeting of ntative busi |fornia, and McKinley of IMlinois, re ness men at the chamber Tuesday, | | preparatory to going to Tacoina for | democrat, voted for it. a frank discussion of the action in od boycott now ts un Thomas, | operation betweeA all cities of the Iam satisfied that the whole matter is the | Tacoma business men is held, result of misinformation and mtsun: MEMORIAL FOR | LEGION CHIEF “Taps” Sounded for Dead National Commander | Salute to the memory of # galtant soldier and the sounding of “taps” by an army bugler ended the serv foes held at the Arena Sunday after noon in memory of Col, F. W. national commander of the American Legion, who was killed in an automobile accident last Thurs. day Officials of the state and elty, offi cers of the 11 American Legion posts in King county and heads of Other war organizations occupied places on the platform. Col. W. B. Beals delivered the| eulogy, reviewing Col. Galbraith's record as a soldier and ag head of the Legion, Free Canal Toll | Bill Is Favored) WASHINGTON, June 13. —The Borah resolution, providing for free tolls thru the Panama canal for |American ships engaged In the coast | wise trade, was ordered favorably veterans: mittee on interoceanic was Unanimous, Borah, Johnson of Call canals, T! vote Senators publicans, and Walsh, Montana, Onn | Seattle chamber, every effort has been made to.promote a spirit of co- state When the conference with | committee repr A Hat ful past, cored) trologers who present and future day night say he was born under the influence of Uranus and Jupt . “HA! THE SECRET 1$ OUT! CREDIT OLD JUPE AND URANUS! The secret of the wonder powers of nine-year-old dimcovered. Aw MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1921 JAPS PLEAD FOR Samuel chens | Differences Satur ter, which incline him to know a |/@"4 the U. 8. can be easily elim pawn from a bishop and vice ||inated by an honest and mutual at- versa, tempt to understand each other's SHOOT MOTHER | Threatens Her With Gun, BOY TRIES TO problems was the declaration Mon of the Japanese commission now tn day of m arliamentary ttle, The commisston, including lead ers of three political parties, will be mbers | That differences between Japan, UNDERSTANDING 20 ‘Say It Will Eliminate All Vitis ' She Charges; Flees the result of an alleged at. As tempt Saturday to shoot his mother, Mrs. Effie Huddleston, 110th st. and Bvanston ave, Robert Huddleston, 14, was being sought Monday by po- lies. The boy, she cnarges, attempted to shoot her with a@ rifle Saturday | following a bitter quarrel with his two small sivters In which he beat them with a club. When his mother tried to argue with him, Robert seized his rifle and attempted to kill her, but the | weapon falled to go off. The boy |left after his mother had run to a neighbor's house for safety. The boy is believed to be hiding on the water front. Ala Beot |The date ty uncertain, ska Governor to Be Feted Here t C, Bone, governor of Alaska, the | will be the guest of the Chamber of ng the chamber | Commerce here at @ banquet upon Under the leadership | expects to answer the charges of the| his arrival from Washington, D, C. of Robert §. Boyns, president of the | Tacoma organizations in detall.” . * |the guests of honor at a dinner to be given by the Chamber of Come Monday night at the New Washington, During the day they will be entertained by the port com- mission and will visit several of the city’s big industrial plants. The members of the Japanese diet are visiting the coast to study con- |ditions as they relate to the two countries, All of the statesmen de clared that the U. 8. should lead th world in disarmament. “Japan ts confronted by serious ine ternal problems which must be set- tia before she can become a dan- \gerous factor In the world field, | commer. y or otherwise,” Bokw saburo Nakanisht, chairman of the delegationy declared, | “Japan is experiencing an awake ening of labor-consciousness which is not backed with a public opinion to prescribe reasonable demands to |limit ite aggressions. | “Americans have not made the ef- |forts to understand the Orient that the Orient has made to understand America. “Japan can best serve its interest in China by adopting a policy of commercial expansion, rather than |by risking an attitude of aggression |by riding rough-shod over the Chi- | nes “The military element in Japan is no longer in the saddle.” 1?) y fF ‘' Answering the question, “Have retail prices come down?” with the con- SEQOND AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY STREET clusive evidence of the lowest prices for years. Sweeping price cuts thruout the store bring many remarkable new val- ues every day. For Tuesday the following specials add greater interest to this great selling event: 2,700 PAIRS Women’s and Children’s Stockings EVERY PAIR PERFECT 1,000 pairs Women’s Lisle Stockings 39c Out sizes—black and white only. Good qualities in lisie, mercerized and cotton Stockings. Sizes 9, 9%, 10, 10%. 1,700 pairs Boys’ and Girls’ Stockings GREATLY UNDERPRICED 1,200 pairs Misses’ Stockings 85c Pair Fine ribbed, mercerized lisle Stock- ings of unusually good quality, Black, white, cordovan and gray. Sizes 6 to 10. 500 pairs Boys’ Stockings 25c Pair . Heavy ribbed black cotton Stockings, with large elastic leg. Sizes 6 to 11. First Floor TO CLEAR CERTAIN LINES AT ONCE Pink Batiste Lingerie Special at $1.45 Pink Batiste Gowns, in lace trimmed and tailored styles. Regularly $2.50, 2.75 and up to $3.50, Special at 50c Pink Batiste Camisoles, lace trimmed. Regularly $1.00 to $1.2 Second Floor Linens and Towels At Extremely Low Prices In the Stock Adjustment Sales Regu- Spe- larly cial el 18x36.1n, Huck Towels......$0.20 $0.14 T VALUES IN YEARS | jsx5sin. Turkish Towels... .85 27 i er 644n, Mercerized Damask... 1.18 — .15 this sale are, the majority 16-in, All-Linen Crash Towel. of production. Every item “ing ...... Via oda apd 40.28 20x20-in, All Linen Napkins, Goren vs ssveeee va 0618.50 9.45 $5.50 Imported Priestly 20x20-in, All Linen Napkins, English Plaids ....$2.95 dozen : 12.50 7.95 5.00 Velour Sports Plaids, 2.95 40in. Nainsook . 65 45 vee hp ge a 70in, All-Linen Damask.... 3.00 1.95 iy rench Serge Plaids, 2.96 Second Floor 6.00 Tan Cheviot Suiting. 2.95 a Fancy Stripe Suiting. 2.45 6 Big Special Items from 4.50 4 Scotch * AG ecg evcoaes M48 the 3.75 Fancy Tweed Suit- Be ai Se ° Mia aaa sas dding Section Prete gannel bitin 185 At Decisive Reductions for je Plaid 5 ™ * : 5 Automobile Couting.. 3.30 Tuesday's Selling Wool Knitted Jerse Bedspreads, 78x88 inches, Wool Suitings....... 2 Bedspreads, 78x88 inches... 2.45 Buiting and Coating 9.50 Bedspreads, 80x90 inches... 5.45 Jerseys 10,00 Feather Pillows, 21x27 ins, eight Velours Stripe’ 4.00 6.00 Pin Serge Light W flor + 2.95 First Floor pair +8 7.50 Wool-Filled Comforts 40c and 45¢ Pillow Cases. in thi B Dr AT ONE-HALF TODAY'S PRICE Men’s Undergarments “G and M” Fancy Two-Piece Underwear, yg $2.50 a Suit. $5.00 a Suit ts today’s regular price Also a few odd Shirts and Drawers to be sold at $1.25 each. Colors: white with blue stripes, white with heliotrope stripes and pink with white stripes. The first prices marked cial Price Basement are always much below regular prices—therefore, reductions taken for clearance represent the most drastic of underpricings. 50 Suits at $18.95 Regularly $25.00, $30.00 and $35.00 High grade Suits of tricotine, serge and poplin in navy only. Jackets silk lined. Attractive models this season’s styles. Sizes 16 to 42, e smaller sizes. 42 Novelty Serge Skirts In the Stock Adjustment Sales at $1.95 Regularly $2.75. Splendid Skirts for camp. Plaid cotton serge in a variety of colors and sizes. 150 Untrimmed Hats far the smartest assort: ment of shapes which have yet been offered / at 95¢ A wide variety of styles; sizes, shapes and colors in the lot. Trimmings at 25c bunch ‘ Flowers, fruits and wheat trimmings for the midseason hats. 162 Plisse Crepe ' Bloomers In the Stock Adjustment Sales at 59c Pair Regularly 75c, Crepe Bloomers in flesh and waist. Small, medium and large sizes. 85 Embroidered Apron Dresses In the Stock Adjustment Sales at $1.50 Regularly $2.89. Becoming styles of Un x s, embroidered in at Store Opens at 9:00 o’Clock | Special Price Basement Particularly good selections in’ —Closes at 5:30 Men's Section, First Floor on all goods in the Spe- , beach and outing wear. and white. Elastic knee bleached Muslin Apron tractive shades,