The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 15, 1921, Page 11

" Ejatiers with a «mile. Section Two SEATTLE, WASH., 1921. The Seattle Star | rc1«2) FRIDAY, JULY 15, HIS SHE LADY BLUEBEARD OR TYPHOID CARRIER? Mrs. Lydia Southard Is Awaiting Trial as Slayer of Husbands | || WOMAN'S TATE 10 ‘BE TOLD IN FALL > Prosecutor Does Not Credit Her Claim of Being | oe Disease Carrier © TWIN FALLS, Ida, July 15 L Southard, deliberate moder# ly Bluebeard, or— a Southard, afflicted typhoid P'tne question will be answered in the fall term of court when firs, Southard goes on trial for mur- HBhr. Prosecution and defense are aN ng their evidence. The trial to be the most bitter that) West has seen for years, All) fSdaho is aroused over it. / I Mex Southard was arrested re| ntly in Honolulu, charged with the) der of -her fourth husband, Ed-/ d F. Meyer, a ranchman who lived near Twin Falls. Three other of her former hus- had died as well as a daugh- jand that since Probate Judge 0. P. | damages | motoreycle on which | Indian Wotian Wins ard, alleged feminine Bluebeard, to bail, was filed yesterday by William P. Guthrie and Homer C, Mills, her attorneys, in the district court, and] Judge W. A, Babcock is asked to fix] the ball and grant such other relief as may be proper. The motion declares that the evi dence in the preliminary falls to es tablish strong probability of guilt Duvall refused to fix bond because of having transferred the case to the district court before motion for] ball was made, the district court is! requested to take such action, based | on the records In the case, | Award Wenn $750 for Her Injuries Mra. Fred E. Blakely, 10523 Day ton avenue, won a judgment Tues day for $750 against the City of} Mt. Vernon, when her suit for $3,600 was heart before Judge} Augustus Brawley and jury in Mt.| Vernon, Mrs. Blakely claimed a she was rid ing skidded on a waxed pavement in that city, June 20, 1920, causing her to break her leg in two places. $18,000 for Injury Mrs. May Doughty, an Alaskan Tndian, won $18,000 damages Thurs jday in her suit against the city in which she alleged that on Sep. tember 20 last when alighting from @ Cowan park car at Eastlake ave. and Roanoke st. her foot was caught between a defective cobbie stone and the car trick, causing her to be run over by a car from tha opposite direction. = Mra. | AWAITS TRIAL IN IDAHO by the firs’ husband and a broth-| Doughty sued the city for $52,555. Mra. Lyda Goutheré and her fiyth and resent Rusbend, Paul V. South of the fing husband who lived | with the couple. Good-sized insur-| policies were carried by all four ‘the husbands who died. | At the time of her arrest, Mrs./ hard was living with her fifth Paul Vincent Southard, a) officer. They were married in} Angeles, and Mrs, Southard went, 6 Honotulu with him when he was @ short time later. fa the unusual matrimonial i fy libel H 19, 1919—Married Harlan Lewis. On June 14 Lewis applied $5,000 insurance policy. Twenty- days later he died. The doctor's fificate said cause was acute gas teritis, Lyda collected the pol- UGUST 10, 1920—Married Ed- F. Meyer. Next day Meyer out a policy for $10,000 and a will bequeathing $12,000 of property to Lyda, Twenty- days later he died after an ill of a few days. Typhoid fever) given as the cause in doctors’ cates. Two attempts were made collect the $10,000 policy but the! oney was held up. NOVEMBER 26, 1920—Married Vincent Southard, her present} band, at Los Angeles. Tele | phic advices from Honolulu,} we Mrs. Southard was arrested, | Southard stated he had applied| @ $10,000 insurance policy, but) application for so large a policy} rejected. j This is the unbiased record. This} what Prosecutor Frank L. Stephen to add to it: “We do not credit Mrs, Southard’s| Ielaim that she thinks she is a ty- d carrier, and that it was this) may have caused her husbands’ | ths. Regardiess of what doctors’ ficates showed,” we have found) of arsenic poisoning. What is| all the men revealed the same | ptoms, and they were not the toms of typhoid. “We will claim that arsenic was ined by an extracting process) fly-paper. And the evidence} | show that quantities of fly-paper| Dwere found hidden near where two} ‘of the men died.” | After the state investigation was) n, the bodies were exhumed and} lacientific analyses made. Lyda approaches the climaxing pter in her strange matrimonial | jal cheerfully, Whatever her in- thoughts may be, she views the) coming ordeal with outward calm. Physically she shows the strain, of} cuurse, but she greets callers and Against the amazing chain of cir- icumstantial evidence that the state has submitted only wing doctors’ cértifics of the cause of her husbands’ deaths. Bhe has made only one public state. nt. That was given out thru her ttorneys and declared her inno- Z-awyers Seek Bail for Mrs. Southard » {WIN FALLS, Idaho, July 15—~- Matien to admit Mra Lydia South- MEN'S : SUITS aed to: ‘0 —Many ot these sold for DOUBLE the price—and some as high as $40 and $50—Reg- ular sizes from 32 to 42! —For quick selling we have grouped a number of Men’s Odd Suits at a figure not seen since pre-war days. —Mostly Summer Patterns and Young Men’s Models, made from good quality materials and offered with our usual “money back” guarantee. —A very substantial reduction has been made to move them quickly. It is an unusual opportunity to buy a suit at a most remarkably low price. —As the quantity is limited early selection is urgently advised. —106 Suits only—your unrestricted choice—$15, jthe First National bank, that theft of checks from the schoo! | board offices in Seattle were being | turned into money by the thieves, | who are cashing them on tradespeo: | ple in the Fremont, Leschi, Univer: | sity, Queen Anne and South Park| districts. Tho checks, 44 of them, were stol- | en from the school board Sunday, | July 3. They were stock checks on stamped | with the seal of the school district | 4nd protected with a protectograph. | A few checks have been cashed, all | indorwed with the signature of J. J.| | Doris, ‘They usually amount ery $25. The total amount may reach $1,000, The loss will have to be| stood by the tradeapeople, the bank has announced. Police have insued a warning to| all store people to watch for the checks, . \ BY MILTON BRONNER PARIS, July Interview Georges Clemenc Those are my orders! Just imagine a tall, coldlook- ing sphinx suddenly turned into an old man of 80, with Chinese features, and oceasionary omit- ting a word or two as if begrudg- ing every syllable ‘That's Clemenceau! There is no pomp about the Tiger of France, Almost any body can walk in on him in his lair in the Passy district of Paris, But almost anybody {s just as apt to walk right out again! His home is like’ that of a struggling lawyer. Furniture and rugs are old and time-worn, like thelr owner. 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