Weekly journal-miner., 1921-10-05
JURY
 PANEL MUST BE
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state against Lyda M. Southard, charged with the murder of her fourth husband, Edward F. Meyer, was exhausted late today and court adjourned until 2 p. m. Wednesday to permit impanelling of special venire of 40 men.
 Poison said to have been found by state chemists in the bodies of the four husbands and one brother-in-law of Mrs. Lyda Meyer Southard, led to the filing against her of the charge of murdering her fourth husband, Ed ward F. Meyer.
 According to Prosecuting Attorney Frank L. Stephan of Twin Falls county Mrs. Southard collected $o, 800 insurance on the deaths of three of the five men. All were insured, with Mrs. Southard as beneficiary
 Mrs. Southard is 28 years old and is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. w. ]. Trueblood, who reside on a farm at Kimberly, near here. After Meyers death September 7, 1920, his widow worked for a time as a waitress here and later left for Los Angeles, where she met Vincent Southard, naval pet ty officer, who later became her fifth husband. Southard was with her at the time of her arrest in Honolulu, T. H., May F, 1921 She married Southard in Los Angeles November 28, 1920.
 Authorities say Mrs. Southard's first matrimonial venture was her marriage to Robert C. Dooley, a farmer, in Twin Falls, March F, 1912 Dooley died in hospital here October 1, 1915, typhoid fever be- ing assigned as the cause. A child was born to the Dooleys but it died at the age, of two years, typhoid also being given as the cause of the death.
 Mrs. Southard's second marriage, the officials assert, was in June, 1917, to William c. McHaffie, waiter. On October g, 1918, McHaffie died at Hardin, Mont, supposedly from influenza and diphtheria
 Next Mrs. Southard married liar Ian (. Lewis, a Billings, Mont auto mobile mechanic, at Denver, March 10, 1919 On July of the same year McHaffie died at Billings, the cause of death being given as gastro en- teritis
 Her fourth marriage, to Meyer, was at Pocatello, Idaho, August 10. 1920 Meyer, ranch foreman, died in a Twin Falls hospital September :, 1920, less than month after his marriage An autopsy revealed traces of poison.
 Edward Dooley, a brother of Mrs. Southard's first husband, died August 9, 1915, about two months before the brother-husband died.
 Mrs. Southard collected insurance Of $2,500 on her first husband and also $2,000 insurance jointly assumed by his brother, Edward Dooley, and her husband in favor of her. She also collected $5O0o insurance on the life of her third husband, Harlan C. Lewis.
 Prosecutor Stephan has stated that he has in his possession evidence which will establish that poison caused the deaths of the two Dooley brothers, McHaffie, Lewis and Meyer. Stephan said the bodies of the first four men were exhumed and the contents of their stomachs analysed by Herman Harms and Ed win F. Rodenbaugh, state chemists, respectively of Utah and Idaho, and deadly poison found. In each case, he declared, the poison was the same.
 In two cases, authorities say, Mrs. Southard failed to collect insurance on her husbands lives. The policy on McHaffie's life was allowed to lapse through non-payment of premium. Meyer, the fourth hus- band. carried S1O,OOO insurance, which was increased from $2,OOO shortly be- fore his death, but no attempt was made by his wife to collect it before she left Twin Falls.
 An examination of the ranch house occupied by Meyer and his wife in Twin Falls county is said to have re- vealed a quantity of poison The au- ,horities report the presence of the same kind of poison concealed in the house occupied by Harlan G. Lewis and his wife at Billings, Mont.
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