Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-04-26
WHERE ETHICS
WERE HARMFUL
Nurses Dare Not Criticise
Physician Even When
Latter Is Wrong
HYDE MURDER TRIAL GOES ON
All the Patients Got Well After
Defendant Left
Household.

Kansas CITY, MO-, AprIl 26-W men
Miss Elizabeth Gordon, the nurse, re-
sumed her testimony today in the
Hyde murder trial, she was asked
why she did not speak to DR.. Hyde
when she saw him using dirty water
in making a hypodermic for Chrisman
SWope.
There is an iron bound rule that
we shall never criticise an attending
physician" said Miss Gordon. Il
merely looked at Dr. Hyde" Miss Cor
don said. DR.. TWyman had ordered
no more of the medicine then in the
house to be given the patients. All
medicine then in the house was de-
stroyed on December 18th and new
remedies purchased.
Did DR.. Hyde leave the house on
December 1Sth?' asked Mr.. Reed.
He did" and the patients progress
ed after his departure. They got
we'll"
Sister Against Sister,
Kansas City, April 26.-Sister bat
tied against sister in the Hyde MUIR
der trial here.
From the witness stand Miss Mar
garet SWOpe, whom it is charged in
three counts of an Indictment. DR..
Hyde attempted to poison, testified
for the state. She told a straightfor-
ward, though somewhat stilted story,
of her illness and of the typhoid cpl
demic in the Swope home.
Behind DR.. Hyde's attorney sat Miss
Swope's sister, Mrs Hyde, directing
the fight on her young sisters testi-
mony. Attorneys frequently consult
ed her during the cross-examination
of the girl.
Seated where she could look direct.
ly into the eyes of the witness, Mrs.
Logan o. Swope sat and watched the
duel of sisters. Her sympathy was
with the youngest girl-the mothers
witness against disliked son-in-law
But although her sympathy was not
with the oldest daughter, Mrs. Swope
would smile encouragement to her
younger daughter on the stand and
the next she would gaze steadily at
Mrs. Hyde, her face set with an i'm
preston of grim determination.
1t seemed almost certain when Mar
garet Swope walked down the aisle of
the court room to take the witness
chair that she was going to stop
and recognize Mrs. Hyde She walk
ed within a few feet of Mrs. Hyde,
faltered slightly, peered anxiously at
her and passed on. Mrs. Hyde, ap-
parently, did not see her little sister
falter. The spectators did, however,
and there was a busy craning of necks
to get a good look at the two when
they saw each other for the first time
in months.
Testifying was an uphill battle for
Miss Swope.
She is still weak from the effects
of typhoid. Her nerves are unstrung,
The rapid fire questioning of the at
torneys disconnected her at times, but
her testimony, in the main, was I'M
shaken on cross-eXamination. The
best feature of her testimony was her
story about how Dr. Hyde came to her
room while the lights were burning
low one night, and in the semi-dark-
ness, gave her a hydodermic. The
physician walked into the room, an
nounced he would give a hypodermic.
rolled up her sleeves, and inserted the
needle and left, she said.
DR.. Twyman was in charge of the
case at the time.
This arm has since become sore. The
state contends the injection was of
pus' germs and not camphorated oil,
as Dr. Hyde claimed.
Miss Elizabeth Gordon, nurse, tes-
titled late IN the afternoon that once
While DR.. Hyde was giving Chrisman
Swope hypodermic he filled his
syringe with water which had been
used in giving the patient bath.