Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-12
HIS HEARING SET
FOR NEXT WEEK
PHYSICIAN WHO is ACCUSED OF
POISONING KANSAS CITY MIL
LIoNAIRE suRRENDERs HIM
self QUIETLY,

Kansas City, Feb. 11.-Ihe Work Oh
selecting special grand jury to in
vestigate the death of Col. Swope pro
crossed all day. The inquisitors will
begin an examination of the witnesses
rs soon as instructed by Judge Lat
Bhaw tomorrow.
DR.. B. C, Hyde, husband of the late
millionaire's niece, gave himself up
yesterday afternoon.
The warrant upon which the arrest
was made was issued at the request
Of Attorney John G. Paxton, executor
of the Swope estate. First degree
murder is charged The warrant says
that DR.. Hyde tn felonious intent,
administered 81 chime to Colonel
Swope on the day Of his death.
Across the back Of the complaint
filed by Mr.. Paxton asking for war
rant Prosecutor Virgil Conkling wrote
above his signature, IT hereby indorse
this complaint"
DR.. Hyde was arraigned before
Justice w. F. Loar at Independence
The physician pleaded not guilty. He
was released on bond of S50,000. His
preliminary hearing was set for
Feb. II.
Prosecutor Conkling originally plan
med to have the bond fixed at $4,000,
but Hyde's attorneys had arranged for
a,S50,000 surety and, as they expressed
willingness to give this amount, it
was accepted.
BY dismissing his libel suit for
100000 against Attorney John G. Pax
ton, DR.. Frank L. Hall and DR.. Edward
j.. Stewart yesterday, DR.. Hyde re-
moved himself from the range of the
attorneys who have been using every
legal means known to them to get his
depositions in the case One suit for
100000 alleging slander is still pend
dng against Attorney Paxton.
History of Case.
The death Of Col Thomas H.. Swope
on Oct laut was attended by circum-
stances which mystifies the million
eires family and close friends. DR.
Hyde had treated Colonel Swope dur
ing his last hours and had, in signing
the death certificate, given apoplexs
es the cause of death.
When, in December, an epidemic O.
typhoid fever ragged in the Swopt
household, during which eight person!
were stricken and one, Chrismal
Swope, died under conditions tha
caused much apprehension among tn,
attending nurses, John G.. Paxton, tht
executor, and Mrs. Logan Swope, thu
mother OF Chrisman, instituted Wig
orous Investigation.
ward with the statement that on Nov
10 DIR. Hyde had secured from him al
active typhoid culture. After DR.. Stew
art had divulged this information Dr
Hyde was placed under surveillance o
detectives.
Dec. 20 DR.. Hyde himself suffere'
an attack, stated to be typhoid fever
which added to the complications 0
the case.
Examines for Typhoid.
when DR.. Hyde became ILL.," sal
DIR. Stewart, "I was asked to make al
examination of his blood for typhoit
He asked that make the Vidal tes
This will show typhoid fever even
the subject whose blood is examine
suffered from the disease several year
before. An examination of the blood {
DR.. Hyde showed faint trace Of ty
phoid.
II then asked permission to make tn
culture test. This is an absolute tes
for typhoid II 1t is actively present |
the blood when the blood is take
from the patient"
DR.. Stewart said that although D
Hyde's blood was placed side by sid
in an incubator with blood taken frol
a typhoid patient in Kansas Cit
hospital that 1t remained abso1utel
sterile Of typhoid and contained no ty
phoid germs
DR.. Hyde prescribed for Colon
Swope during the latter's Illness Tt
patient was given a digestive capsu
on Oct. 8. Twenty minutes later, viii
reading q newspaper, he went in cor
vulsions. His neck and limbs stiffene
and he groaned in great pain.
He rallied long enough to say:
wish had not taken that medicine
Then with greater effort the dyir
man gasped: II wish I were dead +
died a few minutes later.
Nurse Surprised at Diagnosis.
Miss Keller, nurse, was alone wit
Colonel Swope when the convulsiol
began. She said the patients face W;
pale throughout and that she W;
amazed upon hearing the malady he
been diagnosed as apoplexy.
Only two days before, James Mo
Hunton, Colonel Swope's cousin, al
named as an executor of the Swol
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