The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-06
PRETTY WOMAN CHARGED WITH
 SIX MURDERS
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 What manner of woman is the alleged Bluebeardess. Mrs. Lyda Eva South, ard. accused of having caused the death of four husbands. a brothcr-n. law and her baby
 Does her appearance bear out the childhood pictures which caused shiv. CTS to run down our backs when we read of the doings of the wicked Blue beard of yorc?
 First of all as a matter of course, the alleged Mrs. Blucbeard has no beard. Neither does she bear out in any shape or manner the pictures that description of her alleged crimes would develop in our imaginatioas.
 Instead of these pictures, the one presented by Mrs. Southard is a slcn- der. colorless little woman, well un- der five feet two inches tall. with gray eyes that look one full in the face wher she speaks. Mrs. Southari, is petite. dainty. with hands that lady of quality might envy for their shapely slenderness. and with smile that grows in friendliness and warmth as She talks-shc is about the last per Bcn one would select as a possible wholesale murderess.
 An unusually small woman. Mrs. Southard's is a singularly piquant face with retrouse rose, mobile lips and the guileless eyes of a child Attrac- lively arranged masses of silky fine mouse-colored hair are drawn down to conceal a forehead which bulges oh- yously.
 Mrs. Southard is peculiarly emotion less Mrs. Y. II. Ormsy, who as ma tron was her constant companion for two weeks on the long trip here form 1 Honolulu, where she was arrested, de. | clared that not once during that per i iod did she display emotion. She has registered sadness and gladness in discussion of but two topics since her arrival.
 1 It wae when she spoke of little LOT. raine Marie, her baby by her first hus- i band, R. C. Dooley. Missourian. that l Mrs. Southard manifested her first real emotion. Her lips trembled. and | traces Of burning tears welled up in her eyes as she repeated the baby's name time or two. The temporary wavering, however. immediately gave place to calm which has marked her attitude and behavior since her arrest weeks ago.
 1 It was during the discussion of her present husband. Paul Vincent South ard, U. & Navy petty officer. who is en route from Honolulu here to he with her during her trouble. that Mrs. Southard displayed gladness. She told how she had met Southard in San | Pedro. Cal, where she was visiting and where he was stationed with the navy. She also told of how two months courtship was followed by their marriage and their later sail ing for Honolulu where Southard was assigned to duty.
 q met him in San Pedro; I was lonesome, and he was too. and we just took to each other from the start YVES the account Mrs, Southard gave of her meeting with her present hus' band. who is standing by her Loyalty in the present trouble and who is en route here now to be with her during her trial in the North
 Southard, who is two years young CT than his wife, has a splendid record of nine years service in the navy. He served overseas during the war and is due for promotion next spring, accord
 ing to his wife.
 "The only fear that we had" says , this enigmatic little woman, who has baffled police and doctors, was that they might seperate us, somehow. since we have found out that that cannot be done legally we are not worrying"
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