Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-14

numbering Col Thomas H. Swope,
went to the jury at 9:55 o'clock.
After the jurors had balloted for an
hour and forty minutes tonight with
out reaching verdict they were sent
to their hotel for the night. They will
resume balloting at o'clock tomor-
row morning.
Grown weary after more than four
weeks of Imprisonment, the balloting
time was greeted with signs of relief
by the jurors. During the final hours
of the closing addresses, which occu-
pied the entire regular court sessions
for two days and entered into extra
night sessions, the Jurymen often
looked at the clock and moved rest
lessly in their chairs.
When James A. Reed closed the
states final argument tonight and
Judge Latshaw indicated the jury was
free to begin voting on its verdict, the
twelve men walked quietly from the
courtroom.
The court informed them 1t would
wait until about midnight for a ver-
dict. If none had been found at that
time said the court, they would be
sent to their hotel to return tomor-
row anu COullHuG LIelI QcllDGIdllOllS.
Dr. Hyde smiled as the arbiters of
his fate retired. Turning to his wife
at his side he said:
"Ill eat dinner with you Sunday,
Frances"
Off on another side of the courtroom
sat Mrs. Logan o. Swope. Clustered
about her were all of her living chill
dren, with the exception of Mrs Hyde,
The jury filed past her as 1t went to
it's room. AS soon as the room was
cleared sufficiently the Swope family
went home.
COURT ROOM CLEARED
Immediately after the jury had re-
tired the crowd was ordered from the
courtroom, but the crowd who, day by
day, have fought for places from
which they might best hear the testi-
mony, were unwilling to leave upon a
mere request. They wanted to remain
until a verdict was delivered. but the
court would not permit it. In fifteen
minutes after the close of the argu-
ments the marshal closed the room.
Every marshal in the employ of the
county was drawn into service. They
were warned to clear the room as soon
as possible and to use strenuous eff
forts to prevent a demonstration.
More than dozen personal friends
of DIR. Hyde and wife remained in the
room with the couple. The scene more
resembled a social gathering than the
convention of intimates about man
whose life was in the balance.
Seated in the center of the little cir
Gle of people, the physician lighted a
cigar tilted back his chair and be-
gan to tell stories. Soon the party was
laughing and joking.
But the aged father of DR.. Hyde was
not present. The long hours of the
trial have exhausted him. When the
last speech was finished he went to
his hotel and retired.
While Mrs. B. C. Hyde wept convul-
sively, Prosecutor Virgil S. Conkling
today asked the jury to inflict the
death penalty upon the physician
HYDE SMILES AS HE Is FLAYED Q
The impassioned appeal of the pros
ecutor did not move DR.. Hyde. When
Mr.. Conkling had ended his plea to
the jurors to send the defendant to
death the physician turned about in his
chair and smiling at his wife said:
why, that man wants to hang me"
Still sobbing, Mrs. Hyde put her arm
upon her husbands shoulder, but said
nothing.
Attorney James A. Reed began his
final argument for the state at 7 o'clock
tonight. He argued at the outset that
DIR. Hyde began to collect the testi-
mony last December to use in his trial,
although at that time no charge had
been filed against him.
HE did not go to Mrs. Swope when
he found he was suspected, and plead
with her to have autopsies made on the
bodies of Col. and Chrisman Swope to
prove they did not die of poisoning"
said Mr.. Reed. mo; he left the house
and came to Kansas City and employed
experts to begin the study of poisons."
The reason DIR. Hyde said 81 don't
remember" so many times on the wit
ness stand, averred Mr.. Reed, 'was
because he could not weave falsehoods
fast enough to cover his evil acts
DR.. Hyde was characterized as a ply
sician who had grown so accustomed to
suffering and hardened to crime that
he was able to commit the atrocities
he is said to have committed in the
Swope house without flinching.
"rrhey are trying to hide this mans
guilt behind the skirts of his wife,"
said Mr.. Reed. "Do not listen to them.
say as the years go by she will
realize how much better it would have
been it, on the night of last December
IS, she had remained with her mother,
as she was asked to do"
MADE BOLD BY GREED FOR GOLD
The attorney described DR.. Hyde's
greed for gold as one that made him
bolder every time he accomplished a
crime and added to his wealth. With
Moss Hunton gone, he said, the ply
sician was nerved to do away with
Colonel Swope; the coming into his
hands of a part of Chrisman Swope's
property led him to poison Margaret
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