South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 142, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 22 May 1921 — Page 6

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Sheriff Says Mrs. Southard's Fatal Wooings Were So Persistent Men Could Not Escape; Probes Mysterious Deaths of Four Husbands, Wh ose Insurance She Gains

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the Jam and that h? had died of typhoid fever. At thnt tlrn neighbors RTi-i she expressed the fear to them that their baby, too, would die of typhoid. Tru to her prophecy, thr weeks latrr llxijy Iaura vrs.s df .itl. Mrs. Iooly collecrol J4.r,r) rn lr.?urance that had lorn carried 1y th brothora and a ?hort tim after was married to William ?dcHatü. The two won: to Montana to Hyp and FettJed on a ranch. McJIaffle took out a JÖ00 ln?urancG policy and made on payment on lt. Ina short time he dk-d. but when Lydia went to collect th Insurance she found that thf policy had lapsed a few d.ny and tho company refused to ray It. In June. 1?19. I.ydia married Harlem Lewis, an automobil sibsman. with whom sho had become acq' ainted in Montana. One month la'or, on July 6, Lewis died from whit doctors .lld wns ptonnine ptdsonintr. and Lydia collected $.",noo in insurance. Foov.'ln?r th dath of Iwl, Lydia returned to Twin Falls where sho met and married Mvcrs, husband No. 4.

Winifred Black Writes About:

little girl and tho

Married and gone the with tho child's heart

woman's hope. Married and pone, th poor. littl thing who never had a crtss to bear In all hr thort life. Married and pon th mother's baby, who never ev n thought of making a dr.!-.-; for hers.lf, cr trimming c ne of her c n hat?. Married and -.ri to loo! real life in the face at last. And tho iik tlu r who loved and shielded h' r and sacrificed for hr and dreamed preat dreams for her what of the mother? She is left alone, without en poul to comfort her in hr ace, without one voic to whisper of courage and of hope, when the ray has been dark and lonely. Aloue and the years homing like a flock of doves all tho air black with their beatinc winu-s. Alone and tho child f-he bore In apony and nourished in sorrow laughs light-heartedly in th' house of a stranger, and dots not even wish for one plimpso of her mother's fcrpotten face. "Who In it she has married? "What exeat charm had ho that ho could so lure a loving heart to coldnc63 acalnst Its own ? Is he brilliant, handsome, successful, lipht of heart and Joyous? Not any of thes things, seen by

the. mother's eye but Ah, well some day the little runaway will look back and remember, and perhaps she will realize then what it all mf?.nt to the mother she left behind her. "What a ftranpo peneratlon it Is, to bo pure! I met two friends of mine the other day, and cne of them said: "My son telephone.! home last r.ight that he wouldn't be back to dinner ho wan married and would I please pack his steamer trunk and express it to a nearby city? He was on his wedding trip, and he thought powibly he'd "ttl" in tho other city. And wo never even heard of the pirl. an-1 didn't have a FUpicion that he was thinking of marriage at all." "That's nothinp." Faid the other friend. "My ton was married six months and w-3 never knew a thinp about it, until a perfect stranger met my wife at a reception and said something about it." We nil three lookf d at each other and laughed ruefully and chanced the subject. I suppose It's all natural enouch, though what there is to be so secret about when it comes to mar riape. I cannot imapine. And then have, parents no right to any consideration whatsoever? I happen to know that one of theFP friends whose Fon stepped out and married a stranco pirl and telephoned home about It pave up his beloved profession when that boy was born. lb and his wife could live on it all right, and pet on well enouph, but when the boy was born my friend and his wife left the little

contented and went to the reit cityj-b- so yr ur.r and worked and eared and pi. inn'- 1 J t-:id-rr.-si a .and managed and .ort thr b y to all"'-

university. And when had completed hi

course they saerlfioo-l their pride an-1 'n th" r.4 v

brushe ! up an acqu.iintar. oo with nnj -. old branch cf the family for th ! ?''""

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business, and Just as ho was dn'r;-; v.t r'- -well, and the father .an.! m-th.-ri tim.-i.-r drew a long breath of relief and t-at-jth hy.rtf. r lsfactlon off he went without a j 1 wJxh h ' s n-rr a n ,1 tHom n nrr-lpwlv oaibr:des and pr

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ho would have two rather boresomo strar. crr. And that's all ther is left of their lifetime cf sacrifice and devotion. Tho other your. man's mother was a singer, and a pood singt r, too. I3ut when the baby came sho pave up her music and her concerts and her

flowers an 1 hr troops of admiring;

friends. The boy was de'Icato and needed a lot of caj-e and Dad .. bl Iiis hi:dm.-s and moved to a milder climate for the bey's sake. And now he didn't even care to tell them ho was married, lie left It for them to f:nd out from tho In Jiffer r.t . lips of a stranger. A Natural Question. I know a woman who has worked and struppled and prayed for strength to live till she could bring up her daughter to womanhood. She was alone the one who should have helped her with the cire and responsibility w.-'S not aide to and she did her very best. And the pirl ran away and married and r.ever even Faid pood-hy.

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Irs. Lydia TnichTl IHdoy Mc-Halli Tx Ais flyers Smtlianl: Iict first lnilvmd, Itolxrt I)oIcy and tlir cMld. Laura Mario looh-y. lMIt'y ;uid the child arc Ixith d.ul nrul their deaths arc Indn invcstlsatotl.

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II lis hand No. 1 Robert Dooley. No. I-Wn McHatTl. N".. .. Harlem Io'vis. No. 4 -Ed Mycjrs Nu. :. I. V. Southard.

Insurance ...I 4.;.i.'0 r.oo 5.000 lit fMUl 1 n t i 0 i )

Tho lirs.t four htisbands are dead; the fifth Is aiding her dfens, again?:. th- charge of murdering the fourth.

"Take poor Kl Myers for exampi." says Ieputy Sheriff Ormsby. "II was the woman's fourth busbind. In I'J-'i he was running a little r.ineh out near Twin Falls when Lydia tame home after Harlem Lewis, husband No. had died In Montana and sho had collected J'"" in insurance. (Tj Ixxly Talkinp. "She rigged herself out tit to kill, bought a bng mink coat and closed cir. llverbody i ri town was talking about the way she ran around to l'rom San I 'ra neisco to Honolulu he danced. "She courted Kd right off his feet. "She talked around town that she wasn't in love with Kd, but she wanted a home, and sho said that

"She swept the men of her choice off their feet courted them to persistently thit they could not escape." That's the way V. II. Ormsby. a deputy sheriff of Twin Falls, Idaho, described the romance of Mrs. Lydia Southard, under arrest at Honolulu on a charge of murdering I'd Myers of Twin Falls, her fourth husband. Ormsby and his wife, who als is a deputy sheriff, are enroute t Honolulu to return Mrs. Southard to Twin Kails, whero she will he ques

tioned about the mysterious deaths J the insurance company held up pay-

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against her. "After Lydia left Twin Fallj late in 1920 sho met Southard at a dance. Later they .cre married and when Southard whs transferred took his bride along. He's still loyal to his wife." Tho marital experiences of the one-time Missouri country town pirl eclipses even those of fiction. Ten years ago while still in her teens she w.aa attending1 Sunday school and enjoying; the popularity that

Odell Rubber Company Improves Local Manufactory

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Tho Odell Ituhber Co., whose plant is at CIO Y. Kwinp a v., one of South Bend's fastest growing companies, is adding a new building K4xS0 feet to their present factory. This will bo used for shjpping and warehouse purposes. The new otfice

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will be at the front facincr Kwinr av. This has leen necessitated by the ihenoniinal business the company has been enjoying; for some months. Tho Odell people have lust finished the erection of a west wing,

slvlntr them 1 1,000 additional square feet to their factory, in which machinery is beinp: installed which enables them to douhlo their capacity. This makes possible the production of from 600 to 700 tires per day and ".00 tubes. The plant is working 24 hours a day with two shifts. They

are having1 preat difficulty In applying the remand and havo .been oversold for some time! they are at present turning down a larpc number of orders. In the new west wing of the building, machinery is being installed consisting of three largo mixing.

mills, or. mamm and two i u' iru- L. ufacturo of tires-, they have a.M" 1 one new T. 1 1 2 30 hrr3c jm,-. r powr r i.io. e- a -id motor ger.i r -.r or.

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insur.mce policy. In September Kd died. "The town folks weren't Just satisfied. They .started a lot of talk and

of three other of her five husbands, a br' the--in-!aw and her own daughter. Mrs. Southard, now the wife of Paul Vincnt Southard, petty officer on th' V. S. S. Chicago, has promised not to t'mht extradition. Her husband offered to pay the expense of hi wife and an orficlal To Twin Falls so that the investigation may speeded. Mrr. Southard denies tlie charges and rays she can satisfactorily explain, the deaths of her former husbands. Sho told officials .he believed she was a "typhoid carrier,"

and that this may have brm re fib'e for some of them.

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merit on the policy. The matter got Into polities nnd folks wanted to know what the candidates for sheriff would do about I.ydla. Sho IMdu't Worry. "Hut Lydia didn't stem to be worrying. After she left for California the town got more dissatisfied than ever and in January' I was assigned to the case. "I've had the bodies of the men

disinterred and examined. Three t,

clu-mls:.. fach working separatelv.

reported to mo that they found 'arsenic. I interviewed the doctors ! who attended her husbands and obt

tained statements from them that enabled me to build a strong case

pnes with being a illage belle

the Village of Keytesvlllo, Mo. At that time sho was living on the farm of her father, "VYiliam Truebiood, about ivo miles from town. Following the opening of now irri

gated territory in Idaho, True.doM : moved his family to a section near j Twin Falls. Robert Dooley, a .school- i

day sweetheart of Kydia, and his brother, -Kdward. followed soo.n after, and settled near the Trucblood farm. In 1?12 Robert Dooley took Lydia, then 1'0, into Twin Falls one day .and the two were married. IMward ueoley went to live with them. First Htifltaiid Dies. One day Kdward Dooley became ill. Within a few hours lie was dead. Lydia explained that lie had taten salmon from a can that had stood open for some time. Lydia anil Robert Dooley nocompanled the body back to Keytesvile for burial and folk in the home town got their first glimpse ef r.aby Laura Marie, Viughter of Lydia. About three works after Lydia and her husband returned to Twdn Full. Robert Dooley died. Lydia said he has insisted on drinking from a cistern on the farm that was close to

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THE PUBLIC PULSE

Com mc nt cation tor tisli eolnmn cjy be ilgned ancarmoQilj hut ratist b ccompaalril hj ttm natu of tii writr to lsaure eood fBtth. No ripoDslMHtj for fCctj er ientlrafiit ipretied will le aismed. IIoLft 4Jlacutoa of public j ietlona Is latlttd. tut ltf tL rigfct reerrJ to llEtcste Ticlou and oöjecttontbU 9Attcr. Th coTl&tt i fr. But, b

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In?. If you wait until then do you know that the fresh s: and best vfcetabbs an I fruit ar" t:one; th; the best lection f baked p'ols. meat, etc., has I . n iv. a-'.e by !!i wlro ones lef. r.' oi arrived; that you .are heme dce;vtd as to ': ilitv. n'l'T. tc. of the dry roods ou

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ly VILLI.r li. M.TLAIl.K. (International oa SiTkv Stall Correspondent.) OXDON', May 2 I. Unemployment .is .1 result of the coal strike has hit the women of Fmtland very hard. This not only applies to the wives, mothers and daughters of th 'miners, Put also to the women employed in arIoas industries, notably in tlio n.e.ineerini: at.d pottery works. Iteports hae been received from many labor centers at th- ministry f '.ab : w ho h indicate th" urr.it e-

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i tent of the depression and disloca- ' r : ri that now exist. ! 1'roni Li i". or it is rep.'rte.l that unemployment anion woir.en in that i e;ty is the worst that has been ex-

er':.ce,i :or many years ana tn.i;

Shejdierd's Rush it stands approximately at 2,000 for each exchange. At Tootlnrr there are over 1,000 women employed by confectionery makers who are on short time." Scotland is. of course, feeling the effects of the strike. Textile workers in Dumbarton are beinir paid off and .short time is reported in the tweed, woolen and shawl-makin.c factories.

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have a Htt.o tin..? fr rv;ro u:td thinj: trade worker? and pencral

the:r lamiiies rut now a r out ir.-"1 ether da.-.' Just mentl n 1? I have ben askd to write th.ls n the earn'-.st io!r-it.itl'"-n rf n;i';y of the clerks of ? -;th II--d. We do not a-k for a r.o-rt b ir.t.-. e wi:; only h" too plad to f re t! ; -. -. i . " i - until the regular c'.c-.r ho jr, p. zu.

i f tctory workers are unemployed and

th.e r(k:ls:er f-r women l over l . f n a . At IMcware it is over ".Tt'oV nnd at "am-rrwell 1reen. Hollow ay and

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public help us to Thanking you.

In Planning That New Home This Summer, What About the Plumbing? ItoinoinlKr that t!o plumbing; Is a mljrlity Imiortant factor In any home, and after tlio hoiis Is t'HTtrd youll cit tho plimttiiiiir to la t h frfMHl many jrars. Why not tako advantage of our jvar of rirKiciio and consult lis nrxmt tlio ulumbinsr to lt lnstalltl? Wo will pbdly pi over tlio plan with you ami, wo fool, tluit we will nlde to offer many snpcrtlons ldcli will J roe protltal'lo. A small Joh nortcs tlio same ronsidemtion frtini us as tho Lirjrvr ones. JAY L. TAYLOR 1 1 1 r South Miand SL Lincoln 0005.

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