Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-29
COLONEL SWOPE'S
. DEATH CERTIFICATE
undertaken OFT Testified That Dr..
HYDE Refused to Enter Cause
OF Death in II.
PAPER IS STILL INCOMPLETE
A,otber Undertaken Testified Mrs.
Hyde spoke About Getting Coffin
Before Her Father Was Dead.

kansas city. April 29.-Delay became
s,,minent I'm the Hyde murder trial
,rher al noon today William Beebe.
,,ror was called 10 the bedside OF his
a,,ine wife. Reports from the local
bospital in which she is confined were
,bat she would probably live but a few
hours
Mr. Beebe was accompanied to the
hospital by deputy marshal. Court
,as adjourned until ? O'Clock this
afternoon. n al that time Mrs. Beebe's
condition In so critical as to require the
= ,,resence OF her husband at her bedside
he adjournment will be extended
DR. Hyde refused TO enter the cause
~ Chrisman Swope's death in the
Seath certificate he signed, testified
Henry j. OFT, an undertaken. today
M OF said the physician told him 60
ret Dr. O. r. Twyman, who also at
tended Mr. SwOpe, to an out the blank.
mis- was not done and the certificate -
stiU Incomplete.
Mrs HYDE spoke TO r. b. Mitchell
an undertaken, day before Col. Swcpe
dIed. about getting a coffin for him,
testified Mr.. Mitchell today The under
faker said Mrs Hyde told him her hus-
band had said Col Swope could nos
live.
The morning session Of court was de-
voted largely TO the testimony of I'M
dertakers, cemetery employees and per-
sons who guarded the bodies OF Col
and Chrsman Swope and James Moss
Hunton after their deaths.
CONTEST OF MEDICAL EXPERTS.
Al the outset of the Hyde murder trial
this morning II was expected that the
contest Of medical experts in the case
would be on before the days session
was over.
DR. Ludwig Hektoen. the first scien-
list called into the cast by Mrs. Logan
q. swope and who made an autopsy
on Col Thomas II. Swopes body, was
summoned from his home in Chicago
. Thursday He was told he probably
would be called as a witness today
Announcement was made at the same
time that DIR. Walter $. Haines and
Dr. Victor G. Vaughn, other scientists
in the employ Of the prosecution, would
testify before the end OF the week
Advising DR.. Hyde's attorneys in the
examination of the scientists will be
half dozen chemists and toxicologists.
Dr. r. w. Smith OF New York is chief
OF the defense's medical corps. He
has been here for several weeks max
Ing tests and comforting with the de-
Tense
The defense's Efforts will be direct
ed mainly toward attempts 20 discredit
expert medical testimony. One of the
salient questions asked veniremen be
fore the jury was selected was: DO
you believe expert medical testimony"
There are several men on the jury
WHO said they did not.
r. g. Mitchell, an undertaken, who
cared for the bodies Of Col. Swope and
James Moss Hunton, was the first Wit
ness called today.
While he was at the Swope house
preparing for burial the body OF Mr.. |
Hunton, a day before the death of Col. |
Swope, said Mr.. Mitchell. he met |
Mrs. Hyde and she spoke about getting |
casket for the millionaire.
she told me Dr. Hyde said Col |
swope could not live" he testified.
Judge Latshaw ordered this alleged |
conversation stricken out.
Upon taking the body Of Col. swope |
from a vault I'm Forest Hin cemetery |
on Jan. II, testified the undertaken, |
the casket was in good shape and the |
corpse had not been disturbed on |
cross examination he said the screws
were not set as tightly as he had ex-
pected them TO be. His assumption |
was they had settled.
Mr. Mitchell said he saw red spots |
on the limbs Of Col. Swope. The state |
contends they are signs Of cyanide poi |
soning.
NO CAUSE OF DEATH.
Although Dr. Hyde signed the death |
certificate OF Chrisman Swope with the |
names "Twyman and Hyde" he did not |
enter the cause OF death. testified |
Henry J. Oft, an undertaken.
Dr. Hyde also marked out a line |
reading Hyde treated the CASE and |
made II. We treated the case
Nj. OF said he sent the certificate |
10 DR. Twyman's office. but the physi- |
can was not there. The cause OF |
death blank has never been filed in.
He told me DR.. Twyman treated the |
case and I should take the certificate |
10 him and have him give the cause /
OF DEATH said Mr. OFT.
Thomas Ravenscamp and Ira W. |
McPheters, policemen, and w. +. stein |
ehd +. l.. Nichols undertakers testi- |
ned the body OF Col Swope was not |
disturbed while IL lay In the Kansas |
Oiiy public library Tor two days.
IL was unusual. according TO Mr.. |
stein for screws In coffin to become |
loose after setting FOR a few weeks.
Harry $. Cook. of Idnwood. Kansas |
formerly superintendent OF Forest Hin |
cemetery and Eugene Walters. told Of |
me removal OF COL Swope's body from |
She vault. Both testified that the |
uoor OF the vault was securely fastened |
with three locks
IL g. Fields an attache Of Mount |
Washington cemetery, said Chrisman |
o"opes body was not tempered with |
sntl an autopsy was made OF Il Seven |
Gays after Miss Georgia Compton. a |
seamstress left the Swope house. |
thanksgiving week. she testified. she |
WIS attacked by typhoid fever
Leonora Coprldge. colored girl. who. |
sne defense asserts, worked IN the |
ssWope house after she had developed |
Vphoid fever admitted In her testi- /
.ony that she often drank water from |
NE family cooler
Dld your mother continue 10 cook |
The swope house for several DAVIS |
,,,rt,r you were taken ill2" asked Mr.. |
Wolsh on cross-examination.
She did," replied the girl.
ne girl said she knew practically |
no'hing about the condition OF tho |
vaults on the property.