The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-13
Court Will Not Adjourn Until
They Are Completed.
COMING MANY MILES.
Great Crowds in Attendance at
the Court House.
Atwood Paints Defendant as a
Scientific Poisoner.


night the jury which is to decide the
fate of DR.. B. c. Hyde. accused of
murder and poisoning in connection
with the monumental Swope mystery,
will have retired to consider its YER
dict.
Attorneys believe that the final ar
guments. two by the state and two by
the defense. will be delivered within
the regular court hours. If this is not
accomplished, Juduge Latshaw said to-
day, night session will be held to
hear the last of the addresses. None
is more anxious than the court that
the case be closed. For more than
four weeks the jurymen have been
locked up, and they are firing of their
confinement.
Perhaps this will prove the unlucky
Friday the 18th" for the accused
physician. However. he does not think
so. He is not in the least supersti-
tious about anything, he AYERS. AS for
the outcome of his case these words
from him tell succinctly his feeling:
I shall be acquitted
The overflow crowd that is attend
ing the trial during the delivering of
the speeches is the bane of the lives
of the marshals. People are coming
here from distances of many miles,
eager and determined to near the ad-
dresses. Hours before court attaches
arrive at the little criminal court room
they are collected in the Railways and
outside the building, long lines of ex-
pectant persons fighting, squirming
and pleading in attempts to gain ad-
mittance.
A session of court was held last
night to permit Attorney John Atwood
to speak for the state. The largest
crowd that has taxed the capacity of
the building since the inception of the
trial was present. Mr.. Atwood's chief
effort was toward explaining the tes-
timony of the experts in behalf of the
state, but he also made an extended
dissertation on the veracity of the
members of the SWope family who had
testified against DR.. Hyde. His paint
ing of DR.. Hyde was that of a scientific
poisoner. wisely criminal and Grim
inally wise
Brewster's Address.
Attorney r. w. Brewster, represent
ing DR.. Hyde, began his address to the
jury. He pictured the home life of the
the death penalty" he said,. means
not only death to the defendant, but
probable death to the wife of the ac-
cused man."
Special counsel for the state and
the foreign chemists were assailed.
Mr.. Brewster spoke with much feel
ing about newspaper interviews given
out by states attorneys before the
d
from the court.
'"This case is not being tried on the
newspaper accounts said Judge Lat
shaw.
"Not only that but he is not speak
ing the truth" responded Attorney
Reed.
Proceed" said the court.
Supporting himself at times with a.
chair Prosecutor Virgil S. Conkling
spoke when Mr.. Brewster's address.
" ar I1OI nd inn 1foS.
had been completed. The prosecutors
speech was a defense of himself for
employing special prosecutors and IL
scathing arraignment of DR.. Hyde,
mainly for his dealings with cyanide.
Speaking of the presence of Mrs.
Hyde in the court room, Mr.. Conkling
said:
"I had intended to comment upon
the action of the defendant in bring
ing his wife into court at this time.
But in the light of the awful predica-
1nent of the accused man 1 can excuse
him and shall pass the matter without
fl rther words
The prosecutor had not completed his
argument when the noon adjournment
was taken.
Afternoon Session.
! Due to the inability of attorneys to
| force their way through the mob that
| choked every entrance to the court
building this afternoon, the opening OF
| the HyIe trial was delayed almost a
| quarter of an hour.
| Marshals were finally ordered to
break a path through the crowd. BY
| this means the barristers were event.
uaIly rescued. Standing four abreast.
thousand people lined up outside the
| building at the noon adjournment, hop
ing to be admitted in an orderly man
ner. But after patiently waiting for
more than an hour, less than fourth
of the would be spectators had obtain
ed seats and the ranks broke and the
people charged the doors en- masse. In
the emergency doors of the Jail were
| opened.
| A bouquet sent to Mrs. Hyde by a
| friend was removed from the table at
her side by order Of Judge Latshaw
| Just before the session opened.
| There will be no flowers displayed in
| this court ROOM" said the judge
| Mr.. Conkling resumed his address,
| when court reopened.