Arizona republican., 1921-05-22
Fipe HusbQnds Unable
 To Escape Wooing Of
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HUSBAND INSURANCE ~I NO. Robert Dooley 4.500 5 NO. 3.-WiHiam McHaffie 500 |" NO. 3.-Harlem Lewis.... 5000 NO. 4.-Ed Myers ........ 10000 NO. 5.-Paul Y. Southard 10000 The first four husbands are dead; the fifth is aiding her de fense against a charge of mur- dering the fourth.
 SAN FRANCISCO. May 2t.-"She feet-courted them so persistently that they could not escape
 That's the way V. H. Ormsby, a deputy sheriff of Twin Falls, Id aho, describes the romance of Mrs. Lydia Southard, under arrest at Hon. olulu on charge of murdering Ed Myers of Twin Falls, her fourth hus- band.
 Ormsby and his wife, who also is a deputy sheriff. are en route to Hon. olulu to return Mrs. Southard to Twin Falls. where she will be ques- toned about the mysterious deaths of three other of her five husbands, a brother law and her own daugh- ter.
 Mrs. Southard, now the wife of Paul Vincent Southard petty officer on the U. s. s. Chicago. has prom ised not to fight extradition. Her husband offered to pay the expenses of his wife and an official to Twin Falls so that the investigation may be speeded
 Mrs. Southard denies the charges and says she can satisfactorily ex- plain the deaths of her former hus- bands. She told officials she believed she was typhoid carrier" and that this may have been responsible for some of them
 Take poor Ed Myers for exam ple," says Deputy Sheriff Ormsby. ''He was the woman's fourth hus- band. In 1920 he was running a lit tie ranch out near Twin Falls when Lydia came home after Harlem Lew is Husband No. 3, had died in Mon tanaa and she had collected $5,000 in insurance
 Everybody Talking
 She riggcd herself out fit to kill bought long mink coat and a closed car Everybody in town was talking about the way she ran around to dances.
 ''She courted Ed right off his feet.
 She talked around town that she wasn't. in love with Ed, but she wanted a home, and she said that sometime she might learn to love him.
 Well, in August she and Ed were married after he took out S10,000 insurance policy. In September Ed died
 ''The townfolks weren't just satis- fled. They started lot of talk and the insurance company held up pay ment on the policy. The matter got into politics and folks wanted to know what the candidates for sheriff would do about Lydia
 She Didn't Worry
 ''But Lydia didn't ssem to be wor- rying. After she lefl for California the town was more dissatisfied than eyer T., and @ in January was assigned
 "Tve had the bodies of the men 1 disinterred and examined Three i chemists, each working separately reported to me that they found ar senic. I interview the doctors who attended her husbands and obtained statements from them that enabled me to build a strong case against her.
 ''After Lydia left Twin Falls late 1 in 1920, she met Southard at dance 1 Later they were married and wher Wa lIdIlSleIIeu 1TOHl SaI l Francisco to Honolulu he took his l bride along. He's still loyal to hi: i wife"
 The marital experiences of the one time Missouri country town gir eclipses even those of fiction. Ter | years ago while still in her teen. she was attending Sunday school and enjoying the popularity that goe' with being a village belle in tn, village of Keytesville. Mo. At tha time she was living on the farm O her father, William Trueblood, abou two miles from town.
 Following the opening of new ir , rigated territory in Idaho, Truebloot moved his family to a section nea Twin Falls. Robert Dooley, a school day sweetheart of Lydia and his brother Edward followed soon afte and settled near the Trueblood farm
 In 1912, Robert Dooley took Lydi; then 20, into Twin Falls. and tn two were married. Edward Doole. went to live with them.
 One day Edward Dooley became ill Within a few hours he was dead Lydia explained that he had eatel i salmon from a can that had stoo open for some time. Lydia and Rob ert Dooley accompanied the bod, DdCk 10 heNteSNlllS TOT DuTldl anu LII , folks in the home town got thei first glimpse of Baby Laura Marie daughter of Lydia.
 About three weeks after Lydia am her husband returned to Twin Fall , Robert Dooley died. Lydia said h had insisted on drinking from a cis tern on the farm that was close { the barn and that he had died o typhoid fever. At that time tn , neighbors expressed the fear to then that their baby too, would die 0 typhoid.
 True to her prophecy. three week ] later Baby Laura was dead. | Mrs. Dooley collected S4.500 on in surance that had been carried b | the brothers and a short time late was married to William McHaffle. The two went to Montana to liv
 and settled on a ranch. McHaffl
 took out a $500 insurance policy an
 made one payment on it. In a shol :, time he died. but when Lydia wer ! to collect the insurance she roun
 that the policy had lapsed a fe' ' days and the company refused to pa it.
 = In June. 1919. Lydia married liar
 lem Lewis, an automobile salesman
 with whom she had become ac-