New-York tribune., 1910-05-10
THE HYDES ON THE STAND.
Accused Physician and WIfe
Testify in SWope Case.
SHE SOBS, NEAR COLLAPSE
Accuses Relatives and Fr1ends
of FaIsehood and Trickery-
Her Husband Denials.

Kansas City, Mo, May s.-Brinsing INTO
use every ounce of their strength, both Or.
B Clark Hyde and his wife took the witness
stand to-day in the trial of DIR. Hyde Tor
the murder OF Colonel Thomas II. Swope-
Nearest relatives and former friends ana
nurses who had testified against DR. HYDE
were accused of falsehood and trickery-
DR. Hyde offered no excuses for his ac-
tions in treating the sick at the Swope
home. Neither did he admit that he might
have erred in judgment. He said MS
course was right in the cases of James
Moss Hunton. Colonel Thomas H Swope
and Chrisman Swope. He maintained that
the causes of death he gave when the
men died were correct. Never. the physl-
clan said. did he try to poison any one
either with typhoid germs or with drugs.
Checking her tears as best she could and
near collapse. Mrs Hyde preceded her
husband on the stand She fatty contra
dicted testimony given by her mother, ner
brother and several sisters
Mrs Logan o. Swope heard the testimony
Of both witnesses She watched Mrs Hyde
closely, but when DR.. Hyde took the stand
she lowered her eyes and did not gaze into
his face at any time.
Mrs Hyde attacked the story of her
brother, Thomas H Swope. jr., that he saw
DR. Hyde throw away some capsules in
street in Independence, Mo, after leaving
Colonel Swope's deathbed the night Of
December Is.
while Clark TDr HYDE was absent from
the Swope house on that night said Mrs.
Hyde. my brother Thomas was at moth
er's residence with me. He did not leave
until after my husband returned"
DR.. Hyde walked quickly TO the witness
stand when he was called He said that
he used one of DR.. Twymans instruments
in bleeding James Moss Hunton.
He said that DR.. Twyman did say some
thing about enough blood having been re-
moved. but did not say that they had as
much blood as should be removed from any
man. They took in all about two or three
pints of blood DR.. Twyman stopped the
flow with a string. Hunton died from apo
plexy, Dr. Hyde averred.
did Colonel Swope ever discuss his will
with you. or did you know anything about
the residuary portion of his estate?" asked
Mr.. Walsh.
He never talked to me about his will
and I never heard the word residuary until
the day the will was read
The witness denied that he put any germs
in the candy he gave to Stella Swope. He
was most emphatic in his denial that he
ever administered a hypodermic injection.
part of which was dirty water. into an
arm of Chrisman Swope. Neither, said DR..
HYDE, did he give any nurse a capsule to
give to Chrtsman Swope. nor did he put
any capsules among the boxes of remedies
that they were giving TO the patient.
That amalganation of formaldehyde and
ammonia in a human body does not form
hydrogenic acid is the finding of scientists
who have been experimenting in behalf of
the state. This report was made to Pros
ecutor Conklin to-day
The contention Of the defence is that the
mingling of the natural ammonia in Colo
mel Swope's body and the formaldehyde
which was introduced into it in an enbalm-
ing fluid formed hydrocyanic acid.