The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-14
Inquiry into the Swope Mystery
Will Proceed
Before the Close of the Present
Week.
GRAND JURY SITTING.
Dispositions i'm Slander Case Are
Being Taken.
Testimony of DIR. Jordan to Be
Taken Wednesday.

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 14.-In this
city today grand jury took up what
the state promises is to be a most
exhaustive investigation of the Swope
mystery.
simultaneously, at the office of
Frank p. Walsh, leading attorney for
DIR. B. c. Hyde, the taking of deposi-
tions in the civil suit brought by Hyde
against John G. Paxton for alleged
SANDER was resumed.
Still another inquiry into the case
will be started on Wednesday, when in
Kansas City, Kan, the deposition of
DR.. c. H. Jordan who had prescribed
medicine for the Swope family, will be
taken. The grand jury has been af-
forded every facility to assist its mem
bers in getting information concerning
the Swope mystery.
Every person who is believed to have
any knowledge of the case has been
suhpoenaed as Il witness. The court
officials have announced that special
laecau.ions have beer taken to keep
| any news from leaking from the grand
J jury room. The officials refused today
to state in what order the witnesses
would testify and it was impossible TO
learn what important witness would be
| called first.
Much importance attaches to the
testimony to be given by the three
specialists, DIR. Ludwig Hektoen and
| DR.. Victor Vaughn of Ann Arbor, Mich.
| The evidence to be given by these
physicians, it is believed, will be the
most valuable the grand jurors will
conclusions as to what caused the
| deaths in the Swope family.
| John G.. Paxton resumed his story in
| the Office of Frank p. Walsh this morn
| ing. Mr.. Paxton's deposition which
was full of sensations Saturday again
| supplied the most interesting phase of
| the days proceedings in the unraveling
i of the Swope mystery as he answered
the searching questions of the Hyde
/ attorney.
The testimony given as dispositions
/ in the civil suits will be valuable
should criminal proceedings arise as
the result of the grand jury investi-
CATION The testimony can be used,
} however, only in trying to impeach
i witnesses. Both sides in a criminal
suit would have access to the deposit
tions whether the civil suit had been
dismissed or remained in court.
/ Mrs. Logan o. Swope and the Swope
nurses may next be called upon to
give their dispositions in the civil
suits.
! Miss Kcllar Is Called
\ o. H. Gentry. a druggist of IndepenG-
ence, Mo-. giving his deposition today
testified that he sent a bottle of medi-
cine containing strychnine to the Swope
home for Colonel Swope's use just one
Il week before the millionaire died. Mr..
Gentry said that he was almost certain
that it was September 80 that Moss
l Hunton telephoned for the medicine for
cousin Tom" Mr.. Hunton died him.
self the next day, October l. Mr.. Gen.
try said that each teaspoonful of the
medicine contained one eone-hundred and
eightieth of a grain of strynine and
that each bottle contained four-fif-
teentlls of grain. The witness testi-
fed that he had not sold more thau
four bottles of the medicine to the
Swopes in the year before Colone
Swope died.
Frank P. Walsh announced today
| that a sheriff with a writ of attach
ment would guard the entrance to tbs
grand jury room while DR.. Hektoen /:
testifying next Wednesday and that the
physician would be served with the wri
as he emerged from the grand jurS
hearing and be taken to Mr.. Walsh's
office to give his deposition in DIR
Hyde's damage suit. DIR. Hektoen wal
subpoenaed to give his deposition while
he was here for the coroner's inques
, and Mr.. Walsh asserts that the spe
| cialist ignored the summons.
Miss Pearl Kellar, the nurse, who at
tended Col Swope, was among the wit
| nesses summoned by the grand jury to
daV.