Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-11
strange Typhoid Case

Prosecutor Virgil Conkhng, explained that typnold curure consisted or q test tube pled with the media on winch ty- pnold Dactena hved. Healthy grown bacteria covered the media. Ihe test tube gwen Dr. hyde, he sad conCaned algae medla ana mlIll0ns of typhoid bacteria.
 On December 20, Dr. Hyde himself suhered an attack stated to be typnoId fever. Dr. Stewart later supplied the prosecuting attorney with interesting evidence bearing on Dr. Hyde s illness
 when Dr. hyde became iil, sad Dr. Stewart, Il was asked to make all examination of his blood tor typnoId lie asked that l make the Wioal test This will show typhoid lever, even Il the subject whose blood is examIned sunered rom the disease several year, before. An examination of the blood oi Dr. hyde showed taInt trace or ty phoid.
 Death of swope
 'Dr. Hyde prescribed for Colone Swope in the latter Iiiness. Inc pa lIenC was gwen digestive capsule On October 5. Twenty minutes later, wheI reading newspaper, he went into con Yulslohs. Hls neck and hmDs stiffenec and he groaned in great pam. lie raj he'd enough to say: ''I wIsn l had mol taken that medicine.
 Then with great effort the dying man gasped: ''I wish l were dead.
 tie dled a few minutes later.
 Many Typhoid Cases
 On December 2, the nurses attending Chrsman Swope, who was being treatec Tor typhoid tever, were surprised wheI he also had eOnyulslons ana became un conscious exactly as hIs uncle had done two months beIore. Chrisman Swop, dIed on December 6.
 Miss Margaret Swope, Chrsman S sis ter, also had cOnyulsions in a milde1 form. Her illness was diagnosed as ty phoid fever.
 On December 1, Miss Cora Dickson a gOverness in the Swope home, anC cousin Of Colonel sw0pe, and Miss Cop pege, negro servanL in the Swop, nome, were both stricken with typhOiC fever.
 On December ,, Stewart S. Fleming of Maury county, Tennessee, nephew of Colonel Swope, who was visiting al the Swope home, became ill, typnoi, being given as the cause.
 On December 9, Miss Sarah Swope. l: years old, niece of Colonel Swope. be came ill with typhoid fever and on De cember II, Miss Stella Swope, another niece of Colonel Swope, also was strick cn with the same disease.
 On December Is, Miss Lucy Lee daughter of Mrs. Logan Swope. was at hleted with typhoid fever four day, after her arrival from Europe. Dr Hyde had gone to New York. accom- panied the young woman home, and had treated her in tie early stages of hel illness.
 Demand Another Doctor
 Five nurses employed at the Swopc home became so aroused by the manifes. tatlon Tn diseases prevailing there that tinally they notified Mrs. Swope they would all leave unless another physi clan was obtained. Then Dr. Twyman was summoned. shortly thereafter Dr. Hyde himself was stricken.
 Later the body of Chrisman Swope was secretly exhumed and that of Col onel Swope was taken from its tomb Alter an autopsy had been held, the stOmachs of the two dead men were forwarded to Chicago and analysed by Drs haines, Hektoen and Vaughn.
 Dr. Hyde, in a statement made soon alter the investigation began, said:
 History of Hyde
 Colonel Swope died of apoplexy. There is no doubt of it. It was as plain case of apopleXy as 1 have ever seen, Colonel Swope was old and feeble. He had been sIck for more than three months of old age, lack of appetite and senlllty. Only few weeks before his death ne had a severe fall. 'i
 Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde is son of Rev. Dr. G. W. Hyde, a retired Baptist minister of Lexington, Mo. Dr. Hyde was born near Bunceton, Mo-, forty years ago. He was graduated from the Wentworth Military academy at Lexing- ton, Mo, in 1889, and then entered the University Medical College at Kan sas City. After getting his degree he began to practice medicine here.
 Dr. Hyde's name has previously fig ured before the public. In August, 1897, Dr. Hyde, then a police surgeon in Kansas City, was busted from office because of alleged inhuman treatment of Annie Clements, negress who had attempted to commit suicide and who had come under his care at the police station.
 In 1905 attention was again directed toward Dr. Hyde when it became known that he had clandestinely married Miss Frances Swope, niece of Coenel Thomas II. Swope, on June 2l of that year, at Fayetteville, Ark, and against the wishes of her mother, Mrs. Logan o. Swope. As a result of the marriage, pr. Hyde and his wife, family were aleniated until recently, when recon ciliatnon was brought about.
 Following the Announcement of Dr. Hyde's marriage to Miss Swope, Mrs. Sarah II. Frank, of Kansas City, brought suit against Dr. Hyde asking damages for breach of promise. This case was settled out of court.
 Dr. and Mrs Hyde have a modest