Arizona republican., 1921-05-13
ALLEGED MURDERER
 OF FOUR HUSBANDS
 HELD AT HONOLULU
Theft of Diamond Leads To Arrest; May Be Held For Killing of Others, Officers Intimate
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HONOLULU. May 12.-Mrs. Paul Vincent Southard, also known as Mrs Lyra E. Meyer, was held by the police here today on orders from Los Angeles in connection with the death of four of her husbands, brother in-law, ana child of one of the men she married.
 Paul Southard, whom she married in Los Angeles last November, told the police here she tried to get him to take out $10,000 worth of life in surance. Southard is a petty officer on the U. s. s. Monterey, stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Insurance of which she was the beneficiary. was carried on the lives of all ths four men whose deaths are being in vestigated.
 Mrs. Southard, according to the police, has agreed to return withou extradition papers. Papers for ex- tradition are being prepared.
 To Be Tried in Idaho
 SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, May F. -Lyda Meyer, charged with the murder of her fourth husband. Ed ward F. Meyer, at Twin Falls, Idaho September '. 19zU, was arrested al Honolulu today, according to a dis patch received by the Salt Lake Tel egram. V. H. Ormsby, deputy sher- if of Twin Falls, at present in Lo. Angeles, said he was awaiting ex- tradition papers being prepared a i Twin Falls to bring her back t Idaho for trial The deputy sheriff | Meyer married Vincent Southard O i the U. s. $. Chicago, November 20 i last
 l Prosecuting Attorney Frank L Stephan of Twin Falls county, Idaho said ssMrs. Southards matrimonia record was being investigated for tn l purpose of determining the cause and fixing the responsibility for tn deaths of three other former hus bands, an infant child by Rober Dooley, her fist husband, and Dool l ey's brother, Edward.
 Insurance in which Mrs. Southar, was the beneficiary was carried ol the lives of all five men, Stephan said, and of which she is said t have collected s9,500. Mrs. South ard, who is 2S years old, worked fo l a while as waitress at Twin Fall ! after Meyers death
 Her Matrimonial Record Mrs. Southard's matrimonial his tory and the dates of her husbands deaths as given out by the author
 ities follow:
 Married Robert c. Do1ey. Idah
 farmer. at Twin Falls, March r, 191.
 He died in Twin Falls hospital Oe
 tober 1, 1915, typhoid being assigne as the cause.
 Married William G. McHaffi Twin Falls waiter, at Twin Falls, June, 1917. He died at Hardin Mont October p, 1918; death reported {
 nave been from influenza and diph theria.
 Married Harlan c. Lewis autc . mobile mechanic of Billings, Mont
 at Denver, Colo. March 10, 1919. Il
 died at Billings on July s, 191! . cause of death reported as gastrC c enteritis.
 . Married Edward F. Meyer. forems , Blue Lakes ranch. Twin Falls coul s ty, Idaho. at Pocatello, Idaho. on Al = gust 10, 1920. He died at Twin F'al j hospital September :. 1920. Autol n sy revealed traces of poison. Q In two more cases the prosecu e ing attorney said Mrs. Southard fai < ed to collect insurance on her hu
 bands lives. The policy on McIIa
 fie's life he said was allowed to lap
 Meyer, the fourth husband, csrri
 s10.000 insurance. which was increa
 ed S2,000 shortly before his death, b
 no attempt was made to collect it.
 
 prosecuting attorney Stephan sai
 the Dooley brothers jointly assum an insurance policy on their lives
 S2000, naming Mrs Dooley as [
 beneficiary. This was in addition
 the $2,500 carried by the husband g. Edward Dooley died August le 1915, after an illness of ten days a in the insurance was paid to the su le viving Dooley and his wife. On c e. tober 1. 1915. Robert c. Dooley di i." and the insurance on his life W ed collected by Mrs. Dooley. The Do e ey baby lived to be three of fo as years old and it's death was. report hs to have been from typhoid fever. nd examination of the ranch hot a where Meyer and his wife lived D. Twin Falls county is said to have of veaIed a quantity of poison. ne Fear Attempt at Suicide 1u TWIN FALLS. Idaho, May r it's Operatives of the sheriff's office h ,erl