Arizona republican., 1910-02-09
Millionaire sWope After Tak-
 ing Capsule From Doctor ; DIED N TWENTY MINUTES
Hyde Had Besought Wit ness to Use Her Influence to Have Him Appointed Administrator Other Damaging Testimony.

Kansas. City. Mo. Feb. S.--With the 1 testimony of Pearl Keller. a nurse. {. Dr. Ludwig Hektoen. Mrs. Logan | Swopesand Dr. Frank Hall in the in ! quest of the body-of the late Colonel 1 Swope. at Independence today. came developments in the mystery of the millionaire's death more startling than any facts heretofore adduced.
 Miss Keller's detailed story of the last moments of Swopes life. replete with startling features of the happings in the Swope household. produced a sensation So carefully had the story been guarded that. although much had been written and rumored about tfe case 1t was not until today that any one outside the immediate circle in- terested in the inquiry. had heard the narrative.
 Miss Keller testified that: I'm mediateiy following the death of Col. Thomas Hinton. Dr. D. c Hyde asked her to use her influence with Swope. to have him appointed administrator cf the Swope estate..'
 On the morning of Swope's death she gave him three capsules supposed to contain dyspepsia medicine at the direction of pr. Hyde. Twenty min- utes later Swope was in commissions and his death soon followed. Five minutes after Colonel Swope's death Hyde appeared and with Attorney Johs. Paxton. took Colonel Swope's win from his vest pocket
 Dr. Hektoen testified that: One- sixth Af grain Of strychnine was found in one-seventh part of Swope's liver. He believed that there might be a srain In the entire organ. Half grain causes death Traces of strychnine was found in the stomach. Strychnine might have been injected into the body after death but he did not believe that taking medicine con- taining strychnine would leave much as a grain of poison in the liver.
 Mrs. Swope testified that: Dr. Hyde knew that Colonel Swope's i'm tention was to give million and a half dollars to charity and had plan ned to change his win to this effect. She also said that Swope had told Hyde that he had planned to give Thomas Swope the largest part of the estate. She denied that she entertain- ed any i'll feeling against Hyde.
 Dr. Hall said he was absolutely cer- tain that Swope did not die of, cerebral hemorrhage or apopleky.
 Q. H. Gentry. druggist at Inde- pendence said he had prepared med icine for Swope; that it contained elixir of iron, -quinine and strychnine. The strychnine in a teaspoonful of 1t amounted to only one one-hundred and d-eightieth of grain, he said.
 Hyde was again present at the in quest today and heard every word of the testimony. Especially did he fol- low the testimony of Miss Keller closely. But gave no sign that her narrative perturbed him in the least.
 In tense moments when Miss Keller described the dying actions of Swope the jurors and spectators leaned for ward and listened eagerly to every word She told in detail how she gave the man the capsules and how he passed into convulsions. He cried: "Oh, my God I wish I had not taken that medicine. I wish l was dead" Miss Keller, also said that Hyde sug- gested to her that she ought to charge s35 instead of s25 a week for services.
 After she had given the most of her testimony and the room was quiet, Coroner B. Fl. Swart asked her: Do you know anything that might have caused Swopes death, other than the capsule?"
 .'I do not" she replied firmly
 |. The report made by Dr. Kektoen on the liver was supported by the affi- dayits of Drs. Walter Haines and Vic tor Vaughan. The report on the con dition of the stomach was given yer bally by Dr. Hektoen Hektoen said the examination of the organs of the body had not been completed
 A question that may have a great bearing upon tho case was asked by juryman this afternoon It was: Could a body absorb strychnine that had been injected after death?"
 Yes Dr. Hektoen replied If the strychnine had been injected after death and the body had lain a long time the poison could have found It's way to other parts of the body through diffusion. The strychnine would have to be in a solution for that would spread through the tis- sues" Helstoen said, however, that strychnine would not diffuse through a body frozen. as was Swope's. Mrs. Swopc told of many eccen- tricities of Swope. She said he had thought for 35 years that his death was imminent. I'm the same as dead man." she testified he once said to a relative. I'm just walking around to- save funeral expenses"