Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-05-12

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fer as to the accumulative tendencies
OF strychnin and as to the rapidity Of
elimination.
That several alkaloids have color re.
actions in analysis similar to strych.
min and that the same Is true OF putre.
factive alkaloids formed in the
stomach.
That the only strychnin he had, in
fact, actually produced from the liver
OF Col. Swope was about one-five-
tenths OF a milligram, a quantity al.
most too small to weigh and that when
he testified TO finding Is milligrams in
three hundred grams of the liver, he
was estimating the whole by what he
found in the traction.
At the close of Mrs. Swope's testi.
mony the state announced that their
case was completed.
Two Points for the Defense.
Kansas city, May GA disease
known as meningism occasionally &C.
companies typhoid fever and produces
commissions similar to those that mark
meningitis, but leaves no ~post-mortem
traces in the brain; a%trophied, con.
gested and granular kidneys mark
uraemia, which produces spasms that
are decidedly similar to the typical
strychnia commissions.
These are the two points scored by
the defense in the trial of DIR. B. Clark
Hyde, CHARGED with the murder OF
Thomas II. SwOpe.
First Witness for Defense.
The first witness called by the de.
Tense was !. w. Spangler, for seven
years Colonel Swope's business agent.
He said Colonel Swope drank every
day for many years until within eleven
months of his death and that after
he quit drinking he began to fail rap
idly in health, lost flesh, grew pale
and became weak. In July and August
last year Mr.. Spangler bad to attend
the colonel 10 the street cars and help
him on and off.
"He was depressed" Mr.. s~pangler
said, "and said he vas tired of life."
The First Defense Expert.
i ndJ Il IiIS' part vi lHc ttSillllDly
10 be offered by the defense will be
that Of expert witnesses was evident
when II. X. Brewster called as the
second witness DR.. +. ". Frochling, a
local physician.
DR.. Frochling first qualified as an
the universities OF Berlin, Bonn and
Lcipsig and was n graduate of the
Leipsig school. He had been practic-
ing medicine in Kansas City, he said,
thirteen years, being connected with
the German hospital during most OF
this time.
DR.. Frochling said Il temperature Of
LOG in typhoid would be fatal and he
never had known of a recovery where
it was 107M. This was all very i'm
portant to the defense because these
conditions. the charts of the nurses
show, obtained in the case Of Chris.
mar Swope.
Kansas City, May 7.-IIydrocyanic
acid, the deadly principle of cyanide Of
potassium, and the poison alleged by
expert chemists to have been found
in the stomach contents OF Thomas II.
SwOpc, can very naturally be found
from the combination of formic acid
and ammonia, testified DR.. Walter NJ.
Cross, city chemist, on the witness
stand in the Hyde trial.
Then Or. Cross, to make his can
ing quite clear to the jury, explained
that a body treated with cmbalming
fluid. as was Col. Swopc's. is a likely
place for the finding OF formic acid,
the civilization of the formallehyde be-
ing effected by the alkalis ordinarily
found in the human system. This
formic acid, in combination with AN.
monia, which Is existent in both liv.
ing and dead bodies, makes a formate
OF ammonia, which will change TO
hydrocyanic acid.
Depends on Temperature.
The time required to make the
change depends largely upon tempera'
ture.
DR.. Cross considered the atmos
phcric conditions surrounding the
preservation OF the body of Col. Swope
IDEAL for the ultimate formation Of the
hydroyanic acid and said he believed
that the fact that the states chemists
did not find the cyanide on their first
tests and secured a response to tests
made three or four weeks later bore
out his theory that the hydrocyanic
acid was formed in the stomach OF the
dead man after 1t had been frozen and
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