Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lydia Southard had a way with men She married Robert Dooley and he died. She married William Gordon McHavie and he died. She married Harlan C. Lewis and he died. She married Edward M. Meyer and he died.* After each death she collected a big lump of insurance. She was on her fifth honeymoon when she was arrested, put on trial for murder at Twin Falls, Idaho, in 1921. The State attempted to show that she was a chronic husband poisoner, did prove that she killed Meyer with a deadly fly mixture. Mrs. Southard, then 29, was sent...
Last week Lydia Southard, ten years older but no less fascinating to men, escaped from the penitentiary. Other women prisoners played a phonograph and sang loudly while she filed the bars of her cell, sneaked out to the yard. There she dug up a ladder, fabricated for her in the prison blacksmith shop by love-struck convicts and buried by an infatuated guard. She nimbly scaled the wall, let herself down the other side by a blanket rope. Waiting in an automobile to carry her away, prison officials believed, was one David Minton, a recently paroled prisoner who had fallen...
Began a great womanhunt by men who steeled themselves against the Borgiesque fascination of Lydia Southard...
...will speak informally following the tea, and although her subject is not announced it will probably be in connection with the great tragedy of Sophocles in which she plays the leading role. Miss Martha Graham, the dancer, is expected as well as other members of the "Electra" cast. Miss Lydia Walker, president of the 47 Club extends and invitation to members of the Faculty of the University and especially of the English department to be present in the Atkinson Room, Fay House from four to six o'clock. Mr. James Joyce, president of the Dramatic Club and Mr. Jennison...
After a week's tour of several of the larger cities, the production will go to Ann Arbor as the principal presentation in a five week repertory at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater of the University of Michigan, while in the fall it will appear on Broadway...