The Mena weekly star., 1910-05-05
HYDE WAS WARNED
DEADLY NATURE OF CYANIDE Ex- PLANNED TO PHYSICIAN
 BY DRUGGIST.
WANTED THE POISON FOR DOGS
Hugo 6reckiein and His Employer Tell of pr. Hyde's Purchases-Jury Handled Exhibts-More Interest in Kansas City Murder Case.

Kansas City, April 2S.-Cyanlde and fever cultures, the most dangerous cir cumstantial features in the case, took up the entire morning in the trial of Doctor Hyde. It was the most inter esting session since the trial began and, from the laymans viewpoint, the most damaging to the defense.
 It was a morning of exhibits. Hugo Braeckleins clerks showed the jury cyanide In a stock bottle, poison in large white chunks, and told of the suspicion aroused when Doctor Hyde bought 1t in capsule form. No physician ever had asked for it in that shape.
 Exhibits Shown Jury.
 Culture tubes containing media foi the propagation of typhoid and diph theria and pus germs were shown tc the jury by Dr. k. L. Stewart, one oi the states strongest witnesses against Hyde. Capsules and pellets, all of the deadliest. were passed along the two rows of men and examined curiouslJ by the jury.
 For the first time the testimony had reached the sensational and strongly circumstantial stage. For the frs time the spectators saw something tangible, something it could see and in way. comprehend as compared with the complicated and altogether unfathomable charts that have wor ried the listeners.
 Miss Ada Hoover, bookkeeper fol Hugo Brecklein, druggist. the first wit ness of the morning, produced books showing Doctor Hyde's purchases o cyanide, culture media and other arti sles of no significance. The last sale indicated was December II. Books Saved From Fire. And, then" said Virgil Conkling prosecutor, twas the drug store burned?"
 Tt burned, yes," the witness replied ''the night of December 22-2S."
 The jury was listening eagerly.
 But" the clerk added, the bookl were saved"
 Miss Hoover said the state hac asked last February for Doctor Hyde, account, showing that the prosecution was Investigating Hyde's purchase: long before the. grand jury met tho following month.
 Glazier Williams, a clerk for Huge Brecklein, told of Hyde ordering six 5 grain cyanide capsules December 4 how he verified the order over the telephone a.ld the doctors reply that he intended to kill dogs with the poison
 Bought Cyanide for Dogs. It was dogs" not bugs" the wit ness said The order created surprise | in the store. No physician ever haC bought cyanide in capsules. Only jew elers or dentists and photographers used it. He never had sold any of i in any form to physician. After a few unimportant questions put to John Massman, another clerk Mir Brecklein was called. His testi mony was deemed very important. | dealt with the purchases of cyanide the warning he had given Hyde abou | having so dangerous a drug in tn, house, especially in capsules likely t be mistaken for quinine or other medi | cine and the story from Hyde abou | dogs that bothered him. A significan question was put by Conkling afte Brecklein had described the cultur, | media tubes.
 Did Hyde ask you, after the fire, the books had been destroyed?"
 "One of my clerks said" Breck lein began, but an objection kept th answer out of the record.
 Druggist Showed Samples.
 MT Brecklein was equipped wit
 sample pills and capsules and othe
 deadly things, all now in the record a exhibits
 So dangerous was this poison an,
 so rare were sales of it in capsul
 form, said Mir Brecklein, that he one
 warned Doctor Hyde of it's deadl qualities and told him that unless h. promised 10 handle the capsule him self and throw away what he did no
 use, he would refuse to sell them t | him.
 Mrs. Hyde left the courtroom whil
 Hugo Brecklein was testifying. sh
 went to the matron's room and lay ol
 the lounge. It was the firt appearanc,
 of emotion, if emotion it was, since tn, trial began Many persons commente,
 on Mrs. Hyde leaving the room.