The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-19
DENTISTS EXTRACT
PRISONERS TEETH
Visit Penitentiary While
Attending
Meeting

| Dr. b. II. Hudson, dentist, O
Blackfoot, is back from a weeks SO
journ at Boise, as president of thu
board of examiners for dental Ii
censes.
DR.. Hudson said there were only
a few applicants for licenses ant
the work of the board was not very
heavy SO they had some time tt
spare. Some one suggested tina,
they use their spare time to go out
to the penitentiary and extrac,
teeth for the convicts there who
might be suffering, and they rang ur
Warden Cuddy and offered their ser.
vices and he gladly accepted.
The warden sent the automobile
down to take them UP and they took
such instruments as would be suited
for extracting teeth and found they
were much needed. The warden as
sembled the men who were suffering
with tooth ache or tooth trouble,
and when the dentists saw the long
line of men they knew they were in
for real job. OF course, they were
doing the work free of charge and
1t was giving he convicts the bene-
fit of free service from what one
might naturally conclude were some
of the best dentists of the state.
Those elected to constitute the board
of examiners, would naturally be
some of the best dentists.
Mr.. Cuddy, warden of the peni-
tentiary, said he had four women
in the women's ward over by his
residence and he suggested follow
ing the motto, Women and child
rem first" He took DR.. Hudson
over to his residence and said he
would have his wife 60 over and
see If the women wanted any dental
work done. In a few minutes Mrs.
Cuddy returnd in company with q
fine looking little woman weighing
about 115 pounds and he found her
a very pleasant woman to talk with
and to work with. She seemed Very
intelligent, with keen intellect and
very agreeable in her manner. She
had one tooth, or rather, the root
Of tooth that was giving her
trouble and he extracted it. SheI
was very appreciative and after she
was taken back to the ward, Mr..
Cuddy Informed DR.. Hudson that
she was Mrs. Lydia Southard, the
woman who had poisoned four hus-
bands and who was sentenced to
he prison for ten years from Twin
Falls county last fall. Then he
that they had been trying |
% find employment for Mrs. South
Ird. She wanted to work and she
liked to cook SO they gave. her work
helping to cook for the prisoners.
Is soon as the word got out that
Mrs. Southard was cooking for the
prisoners there was an eat-strike
Imong the prisoners. They said
hey did not want to eat food that
vas cooked by this woman who had
,lready poisoned four husbands. If
he had a mania for poisoning men
Why should she not enjoy poisoning
he whole bunch of them II she
ould only get hold of the material
o do it with. So they had to take
drs. Southard off of the cooking
OBJ. Mr.. <Cuddy says that Mrs.
outhard is the life of the woman's
Yard. She Is natural leader and
3 company for all of them and they
ook to her as their leader and their
uperior companion. She is serving.
ten-year sentence and in the mean
lme she is taking an appeal on her
ase, but it is likely that it will
AXE from three to five years to get
er case decided by the supreme
ourt and she might just as we'll
e serving in the penitentiary as to
9 held in the Twin Falls county
all during that period. And then
she lost her appeal she would
ave part Of her time served. III
The warden said there was an
ther woman who needed work done,
ut she would not consent to it. He
aid 1t was Six Shooter Sal Of east
IN Idaho. put In for horse stealing
nd they call her Pete. She did
OF have what one would call a
It OF teeth. but, Just q lot Of old
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