The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 26, 1921, Page 7

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBE DENIES SHE FED POISON TO MATES Wes. Southard Takes Stand) in Own Defense at Murder Trial | BY ROBERT A. DONALDSON TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Ovt Mrs. Lyda Southant, alleged “blue faniess,” & woman who may oF gay not FO down as one of the gratect criminals in history, ac te the outcome of her ‘on the specific charge of mur. her fourth husband, Ed F, Moyer, resumed the wit- pes stand again today in her own In taking the stand, Mrs. South undertook to tefute alone prac: tally all the testimony Introduce: the state during the three weeks qhat it piled up evidence of five murders against her ONY OF Is DENIED Ta attempting to withstand the/ oa} re grilling given her xamination by District At Frank 1. Stephan, Mrs rd categorically denied prac all the damaging statements 40 witnessed stated she had ever a period of six year. @enied that she hadjgtven as reason for not living with her at the ranch doctor for typhoid fever.” Mrs. Southard was first placed on fhe stand yesterday afternoon and fold her story in her own defense. Mra. Southard answered the ques- thons siowly and in a well-modulated ‘woice. Lakes ranch on August 25,/ re Meyer was foreman, and of Meyer's sickness that night. She @escribed the symptoms, which did pot vary in detalii from the symp- 1 prosecution claims the = are those of arsenical poison ‘Asked by Chief Counsel W. P. Guthrie as to what had been served UF for dinner, she answered: “Only | warmed-over beans, boiled potatoes ‘gpd canned corn. That was all.” ‘The defense claims Meyer died from ptomaine poisoning after eat spoiled food. Asked regarding Meyer'f death before she married . Mra. Southard said: “He wasn't and kept complaining to me. July 3 we drove to Salt Lake and I had to drive the ma- Decause he wasn't well He kept coughing, I asked was the matter, He said never recovered from the ef- fects of pneumonia which he had in i" FEEDING ND ARSENIC ‘At any time did you administer @rsmic to Meyer? Guthrie asked. Mrs. Southard Qs q | agreed the excuse | she was “being treated by «| She appeared to be somewhat | She told of her visig to the! toms as descrided by other et HERE'S MORE ABOUT one time prosecutor of New York) city, who became famous tn Thaw was retained ag attor ney Soon after Mjss Brainerd’s arrest, Robby Stagg was returned to his! mother, by arrangement, at Van | couver, BL C. Hetty Mrainerd was taken to Ta coma and released on $10,000 bond. Her trial was set for December Meanwhile, Attorney tt 8 Henderson, who represented Miss Brainerd locally, got in touch with Stage’s friends in New York. He} with Prosecuting Attorney | Askren that Stagg would return to| Tacoma and plead guilty to the! charge of kidnaping his own son, | if the case against Miss Brainerd were dropped. Stare agreed to this at once, He insisted that hiv was the real guilt in the case and | that he did not want Miss Brainerd | to suffer any more thru his im} pulsive act SENTENCED 10 TO 15 YEARS Stage faced Superior Judge Flet- cher on December 18 and received his sentence of 10 to 15 years in prison. Judge Fletcher said he be case, | A} leved that Prosecutor Askren bf best served the state in bringing Stage back He Brainerd charge, Immediately after the sentencing of Stagg, Edith Cunningham Stagg started working for a pardon for her former husband. With tears in her eyes, she told of her de termination to fight until her baby’s | father was released. She was joined by Mrs. Ada Cunningham in het dismissed the HERE’S MORE ABOUT RAIL STRIKE STARTS ON PAGE ONE willing to accept the board's deci ston cutting wages 12 per cent. The Men answered that they were not ;by an 88 per cent vow. “This vote was final, pending only |My approval, As I stated before }the board last June, and the state- ment is contained in the board's ree ord, I for one am tired of being the goat.” Hooper asked Lee if the strike ballots of contained any other question than the wage decision of July 12. Lee {answered that there were other cer he had broken with the other leaders early in October. When Chairman Barton of | United States raflroad labor board called the meeting to order, shortly after 10 a. m., 500 union heads were gathered on the right hand side of the Coliseum. | | A hundred heads of the great rail | Toads of the country were seated on the opposite side. As Barton's gavel tapped, it broke up ttle groups of railroad ex- ecutives visiting with the union chiefs, who will be fighting bitterly within a few days if the strike goes Into effect. ‘The summons of the board, under which the two sides of the dispute | were cited to meet, was read by a clerk. ‘The object of the meeting, accord- *|ing to the summons, follows: husband asked me to bring to the ranch some fly killer, s I . two packages from the drug and took them with me the T went to the ranch. I gave ‘kages to Mrs. Carrie How, at the house, and it out on the table.” rd the drug clerk testify bought 20 packages. Did purchase any Mrs. Southard replied. “I fly paper from that I only bought two pack- husband said the filles t the ranch.” ithard said that Meyer slightly better two days be- ‘and wanted to have nurse dismissed. She said she not consent to this. That she said, the nurse tele- i her that Meyer had had a re- and was dying. Mi ij ; E f! ef i 3 : i tee 228% if, 33 such ra “The day before his death,” she|ing the Atlantic coast as far as the “he was a very sick man-a dy-| Virginia capes. Rains are general | in, and that he never got any from that time on.” om ann EMPLOYE MADE ILL Southard also testified that “the and B. B. Squires, an employe of ranch, also were made sick by|th? tropical hurricane which swept) the food. said that Mr. and Mrs. Walter came to her room the’ after Meyer died. Mrs. Hooden- is Meyer's sister. She said she {old Mrs. Hoodenpyle that the doctor ‘tad told her that Meyer had died of Ayphoid fever, ‘The day after the funeral, she said, the Hootenpyles, w. J. Trueblood, Mrs, Southard’s father, and herself conference regarding Meyer's . iv Southard said she gave Mey- rs to her father, who gave; the Hoodenplyes. She snid not know that Meyer bad it any insurance, or that he a will in her favor. Southard denied that she took mourning as soon as she re- from the funeral, as previous had testified, ithard was next questioned the death of Edward Doo- brother-in-law, who Is al.) have been her first “victim.” denied that whe had any Of any insurance which ¥award Dooley had taken out in her favor, pWVitnenees had previously tes- she was present when the france was written. “foetae to a question by Attor- tay Guthrie, Mrs, Southard waid she Rever administered arsenic to Dooley, ON DEATH iD HUSBAND Mrs, Southard was next questioned Pio the death of her second hus- | William McHaffie. ‘ » She waid, had been in- Ried when thrown from a horse he | h trying to break and was in| two weeks Sfterward, she said, he! from his ratich to the town of Mont., where he became ef eiorn i fymptoms were those of the the waid, Fever at any time adminis Any poison 10 McHaffie, she 1. Brotherhoods must expiain why their Ocotber 30 strike call was not a violation of the July 1 ruling of the board, which cut wages 12% per cent. 2. Both executives and brotherhood | chiefs must tell what grievances they have, and must get together to settle their difficulties. FLOOD COVERS CITY OF TAMPA WASHINGTON, Oct. 26,—Three SS =i| FREDERICK & NELSON | FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET braska, and the third in the north Pacific states, were reported by the weather bureau today. ‘The tropical storm off the Florida coast is moving northeastward. Strong winds and gales are sweep- im the south Atlantic states. eee ih JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 26.- ‘The city of Tampa ts under water, as | a result of a tidal wave caused by thru Florida last night and early to day, according to a train conductor reaching here. A considerable amount of property damage was done thruout the state as a result of the storm. ‘Thus far no lives have been report ed lost. All wires, both telephone | and telegraph, are down. | Many signs-and roofs of buildings | were blown away during the night in and around Jacksonville, tho no} loss of life was reported. At 10 a. m. all efforts to communi. | cate with Florida cities south of here '[) i had failed. H Reports reaching here by mail early today stated that all of Port |) ‘Tampa was under water and many of |} the streets of the city of Tampa flooded. Wirth Will Form Germany Cabinet BERLIN, Oct. 26. Chancellor Wirth has accepted the mandate of fered him by President Ebert, and was forming a new German cabinet today. | Announcement of the personne! was momentarily expected, said. Heliwick, her neighbors, that she “wouldn't Iive with a man who wasn’t insured,” as they had previ.) ously testified. She denied that she had had any flypaper In her house at Hardin Mrs, John Moore, .McHaffie's sis ter, testified that after an auction at the ranch, following McHaffie’s death, Mrs, Southard gave her 20 packages of flypaper which had been left over. | Mrs. Southard next told of the death of her third husband, Harlan C. Lewis, of Billings, Mont. She said Lewis took sick from something he had eaten. | Mr. Stage wa: the other brotherhoods | | Questions in the ballots of other four | big brotherhoods and for that rea-| the | She denied that she told either ||| Mrs. Clara McMillan or Mrs. Reika']) work for the pardon and soon had the | enlisted many leaders of the Amer: | loan Legion and of women's clubs in the case Former Wife Asks for Stagg Pardon This ts the letter that Bdith Cun ningham Stagg wrote to Governor Hart, asking the pardon of Stagg “To Hart “Mr. Febru: ume was his Excellency, Governor and T were y 16, 1918. My age at that 18 years, while that of A short time pre vious to our marriage he had enlist jed in the aviation service SEPARATION AGREED ON “We did not make a home of our in fact, never have done #0, always with my parents. In of the same year, while in California, we agreed to a separa tion and I returned to Tacoma with my mother. Here the baby, Robert Stage, wae born married }months of age, Mr. Stage and I finally separated, and the following September I was granted a divorce with the custody of the child, “One year later, on September 14, | Mr. Stagg telephoned to me a re quest to see Bobby, which I grant ed, and it was on that evening that he stole the baby while I was out of the room for a moment | NOW SAYS SHE | REGRETS PUBLICITY “Your excellency, at the time I | #wore out the warrant for the arrest of Mr. Stagg, it was not for the pur- | pose of sending him to the peniten. ary, but to recover my baby; and as I was without the means to em. | | ploy any private agencies, that was | the only course left open to me, “I deeply regret all of the various ; Unfortunate publicity and the ex- | pense to which this case has put the state, However, I do feel that after returning to Washington of his own | accord, Mr. Stagg adequately paid his penalty by serving in the state | prison two weeks for every one he | Kept our son, So I beg of you to remove the stigma from my baby's father by pardoning him and restor- ing his freedom and citizenship, BOTH STILL Y¥' VISTA OF NEW YEARS “We are both still very young, and such an act of kindness and justice on your part would open to us again | the vista of new years, to be molded into better citizens, with broader views of life “It will give to our son his fa- ther's support and enable him to heu his youth and manhood un fettered by any public taint | ‘So, your excellency, I do respect | fully petition you to pardon my di. | |vorced husband, George Thomas } Stage. “EDITH CUNNINGHAM STAGG.” eee Grandmother Also Writes to Governor ‘This was the letter of Mrs. Ada Cunningham, grandmother of Bobby Stagg, to Governor Hart: “To His Excellency, Governor Hart: | former son-| in-law, George F. Stagg, I feel that | “In the case of my the sentence of ten years of servi tude is indeed very extreme and un- fust and believe that the law made this provirion for kidnapers of a dif ferent caliber. If Mr. Stagg tx forced to serve any more time un der this sentence, it is bringing pun ishment, not only upon him also upon my daughter and grand- son, who are absolutely innocent of any wrong doing, and whose lives will always be under a cloud until he ts free, “I have no desire at all to sce Mr. Stagg further punished and it is my earnest plea that your excel lency will kindly grant his pardon. “MRS. ADA CUNNINGHAM.” | | | from, as follows: “At the time the baby was three! were reconciled for a few weeks, but| POSTAL GUARD | Frisco Bandit Escapes With, | Pouch of Registered Mail | SAN Frank 1 Francisco shot and FRANCISCO, Oct 26 Adams, guard at the Ban postoffice Killed early station, today wus by a corge | bandit who held up the registry room | Victed wife Jat the postoffice and exc jone full pouch of registered with mail, | | Postoffice inspectors expressed a belief that only a comparatively | small loss was sustained in the rob bery | Definite figures however, were not available W. 1. Madera, postofice in»pector, today was engaged in checking the lows. as to the loss, The robbery occurred about 4 a. m According to preliminary reports | to the police, only one bandit entered the building, and made his way into the registry room, where he held up 4 clerk on duty | Adama, doing guard duty, walked | into the room and chalie 1 the! robber, who opened fire on Adams | immediately, inflicting wounds which caused death soon afterward. | The bandit then picked up a regis tered pouch and fled. Police believed lera an automobile aide This was the second postoffice rob. bery here within the last two weeks |Reveral days ago the Rialto postof fice station was held up and robbed of a considerable amount. Immediate lly after the robbery postoffice in | spectors were called and police sent out squad# to search the city, but apparently the bandit had made good his escape. | The ferry postoffice station ranks second to the main postoffice In size | and importance. | Large qugntities of both incoming and outgothg mail are assembled | | there, to be sorted and dispatched on | | various trains. | he j | | POSTOFFICE AT ~ DUVALL LOOTED Bloodhounds on Trail of| Robbers, Who Got $150 | with Robbers, who forced their way into the Duvall postoffice Tuesday Inight, looted the\ cash drawer of Jabout $150 and made their escape. The crime was not discovered un- | til Wednesday morning, when Post |master BE. J. Baker opened the of-| fice. He immediately notified Sheriff Matt Starwich, who dispatched |deputy sheriffs with bloodhounds to | Duvall at once. Postmaster Baker could make no definite estimate of the loss, but he! declared he did not believe it would be more than $150, as all the stamps |had been removed to 4 bank vault for the night. The robbers, who gained entrance by breaking a back window in the poatoffice, left several portions of | wearing apparel behind them in their burry, and this is expected to prove of material amsivtance in tracking them down. Postmaster Baker said he thought) lit was an amateur job. |Drygoods Were Wet, | Tailor Is Arrested) | Ben Rosenthal, a tailor at 406 [Pacific building, had a supply of wet goods supplementing his stock | of dry goods. According to federal | prohibition officers who raided his | place Tuesday. Rosenthal was ar rested and five quarts of moonshine and & quart of gin are held as evi- dence. ainter of ; Ex-Sheriff’s Attorney Wins jing for money ‘ROBBER SLAYS MRS, JOHNSON DENIES GUILT, Mahoney’s Sister Pleads to} Forgery Charge The final episode of the Mahoney murder trial was begun Tuesday aft ernoon when Mrs, Dolores Je James 1, Mahoney, killer, was arraigned Judge Everett Smith, charged with first degree forgery. Mra, John: | son, when asked to plead, replied, | “No, IT am not guilty Bhe in ac 1 of forging the dead woman's ny 4 power of attorney oney gained contro! ore entate After her attorney, Thomas Casey had entered a demurrer, which waa | overruled, and asked for reduction of | 1 from $2,500 to $1,500, which was | denied on the grounds that the case | involved too large an estate, Mrs. | Johnson was forced to enter a plea. | eee | Mahoney Refused | Record of Trial, A motion presented by attorneys | for James KE. Mahoney to force the state to furnixh records of the mur- | |} der triel for them wag denied by} Judge J. T, Ronald Tuesday, Judge Ronald held that he did not have au thority to compel the prosecutor to do #0, Lee Johnston and Louls B. Schwellenbach asserted they were carrying Mahoney's appeal to the su preme court at thelr own expense STRINGER GIVEN FURTHER DELAY 10-Day Continuance Arraigned in superior court Tues: | day, former Sheriff John Stringer was granted 10 days in which to| plead to a charge of grand jarceny. | Stringer is accu of misusing | $5,962.84 of funds paid the county by | the Ko Stringer was | in. office, atte for Stringer, was granted the delay | when he asked time in which to acquaint himself with the charges against his client. KARL AND HIS | WIFE INTERNED BUDAPEST, Oct, 26.—Former Em peror Karl and Empress Zita were to be removed from thelr castle prison today and interned at the Benedictine abbey, on Platten lake. A dozen officers of Karl's staff, including Commander Osnetenbérg, were reported to have committed suicide, Several took thelr own lives at the time of the rout of the monarchist forces, in which the casualties were today reported to have reached 2,000 Sheriff Answers Telegram to Wife, Atvah Randle was perhaps the most surprised man in Seattle Tues- day when Sheriff Starwich answered & telegram Randle had sent to Cham paign, HL, and took Randle to the eounty jail. ' Randle telegraphed his wife for money. Mrs. Randle told the sheriff at Champaign, who called Starwich | by long distance. Randle was wait when Starwich ap- peared. He is held for Champaign authorities, accused of swindling a bank there. A Disposal of Inlaid Linoleums in Usable Short Lengths at Very Interesting Prices N THE offering are some five hundred yards of standard quality Inlaid Linoleums, which will be sold by the piece. 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