The Cordova daily times., 1921-10-03
FORMER SUITOR WOMAN SOUGHT
 WITNESS
;Bv Associated Press)

TWIN FALLS. Ida, Oct. 3.-Lestcr Thornberg who is declared to have been fond of Mrs Southard prior to her marriage to Edward F. Mayer with whose murder she is charged is being sought by the state as new witness. Thornberg was form mer resident of Twin Falls and is said to have been friendly with the defendant. having once talked freely of his desire to marry her.
 Both the prosecution and defense have exhausted all pre- emptory challenges in the examination of Meniremen and it is expected Mrs %outhard's trial will be under way shortly with the selection of a full jury
 Poison said to have been found by state chemists in the bodies of the four husbands and one brother-in- 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 Coun- ty, Mrs. Southard collected $9,500 in surance on the deaths of three of the five men. All were insured. with Mrs. Southard as beneficiary.
 Mrs Southard is twenty-eight years old and Is the daughter of MT. and Mrs W J. Trueblood. who reside on farm at Kimberly. near here. After Meyers death September ', 1920 his widow worked for a time as a wait ress here and later left for Los An geles. where she met Vincent South ard. naval petty officer, who later became her fifth husband. SOuthard was with her at the time of her ar rest in Honolulu. T. H., May 12, 1921. She married Southard in Los Angeles Nov. 2S 1920.
 Authorities say Mrs Southard's first matrimonial venture was her marriage to Robert C. Dooley. a farmer. in Twin Falls. March r, 1912 Dooley died in a hospital here October 1, 1915, ty- phoid fever being assigned as the cause. A child was born to the Doc ( leys 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 G. McHaffie, a waiter. On October 22. 1918 McHaffie died at Hardin. Mont. supposedly from influ. enza and diphtherla.
 ( Next Mrs. Southard married liar Ian c. Lewis. a Billings. Montana. au- tomobile 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- terits.
 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 a month after his marriage. An autopsy revealed traces of poison.
 Edward Dooley, brother of Mrs. Southard's first husband, died August 9. 1915. about two months before tho br,th.r hughopI diad
 Mrs. Southard collected insurance ct S2.5OO on her first husband and also s2,O00 insurance jointly assumed by his brother Edward Dooley. and her husband in favor of her She also col s lected 5000 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 Droth- CTS, McHaffie, Lewis and Meyer Ste. phan said the bodies of the first four men were exhumed and the contents of their stomachs analysed by Herman Harms and Edwin F Rodenbaugh. state chemists, respectively of Utah and Idaho, and deadly poison found.