The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-07
ROBBER USED
P POISON ON
WOMEN

One of the most puzzling cases with
which the local police department has
ever had TO cope is that in which 4
modern "Bluebeard' figures proml'
nently This man is SAID TO be b. f
Llovd and he is under arrest charged
with poisoning three women. all at
tnchos of the Red Light district, with
in the past ten days.
None of his victims died but only
prompt action of physician saved
the life of the man S last victim, who
was poisoned last night Through In
formation secured by Detective James
Pender, Lloyd was arrested in a
Twenty-flfth street roomlng house last
night and held on suspicion
The strange part OF this unparallel'
cd poison plot Is the fact that the
mans motive was not robbery The
only explanation offered by the po
lice Is that Lloyd, If he be the guilty
party, Is suffering from mania which
prompts him TO take the lives OF wo
men such as he Is believed to have
attacked In the past ten days.
According to the police, who have
been working on the case ever since
the first woman was poisoned ten day
days ago, Lloyd's plan was to enter
the apartments of woman and buy
a bottle of beer Then when the wo-
man was not looking he is SAID to
have placed a drug, believed to be
morphine. In his victims glass.
After the woman was overcome by
the effects Of The drug the man
, would leave the place without making
an attempt to rob his victim. In the
two cases previous 70 last night 1T
was necessary TO cNll a physician
and In each one the women were said
TO have suffered from the effects oil
an overdose of morphine
Last night the third woman was
found lying unconscious on a bed In
her apartments. A physician was
summoned and it was only through
the use of stomach pump that her
life was saved. She is still In serious
condition but il is believed that she
Will recover. Like the other two cases,
the woman suffered from morphine
poisoning
Through his investigations Detee-
tive Pender secured description OF
the man who administered the poison
in each case and after satisfying him
self that Il was Lloyd. the chief de-
tective stationed Detectives Ward
low and Burke in the roominG house
TO watch for the man. He came to
his room about II o'clock last night
and was placed under arrest by the
officers.
D At police headquarters Lloyd denied
any knowledge OF the poisoning cases
and said that he was miner from
Salt Lake At the roomlng house
Lloyd resisted the officers who at
tempted to place him under arrest
and explained this by stating that he
thought he was about to be held up,
When arrested the man had $3.50 In
his possession.
In speaking of the case last night
Detective Pender stated that he was
satisfied that Lloyd was the man who
had administered the poison and that
he would be held on the charge OF at
tempted murder.
Later developments indicate that
there was method in the seeming mad
ness OF the alleged poisoner. Two
OF the victims OF Lloyd after identi-
flying the man at the police station
this morning, stated to the police that
when they recovered from the Illness
due to the poisoning. they found that
their apartments hau been robbed.
one OF these women stated that $l1
had been taken from her room and
the other claims that she found that
n ten-dollar bill had been stolen from
her during her unconsciousness.
This theory OF robbery as n motive
removed one of the puzzling features
OF the mans strange crime The de-
tectives. who have examined the pris-
oncr, assert that the man appears to
be entirely rational and claims that
he is a mining man of considerable
means.
When arrested. Lloyd had in his
pocket a bottle OF dark liquid which
DR. William j. Browning. the physi-
clan who treated two of the victims,
asserts is most likely laudanum. The
contents of this vial viii be analyzed
as soon as possible There seems no
mlstaking this bottle as the one which
was seen by two of the victims The
girls stated that they had seen the
man take a bottle from his pocket
the cork Of which was wrapped with
paper TO make 1t fit more tightly. Just
as described by the victims. the cork
of the bottle in the possession of the
police Is wrapped with a small piece
OF white paper which one would no.
tice and remember after once seeing
the vial.
Lloyd has friends In the city who
are making determined effort to Sc
cure his release on ball but the DO
lice are making just as determined an
effort to hold the man under lock and
key until the case can be fully in
yestigated