The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-09

band as an executor of your uncle's es-
tate?" asked Mr.. Walsh.
Yes, sir. Clark and 1 talked a few
days after the funeral OF Col Swope OF
his possible appointment" said Mrs
Hyde.
The defense offered to prove that in
subsequent conversation between Mrs
Hyde and Mrs. Swope the question of
the appointment of DR.. Hyde was
brought up I'VE shall prove Mrs
anger, There will be great objection to
such an appointment. You have two
brothers, who can serve as executors -
said Mr.. Walsh.
The court would not permit the testi-
mony to be given.
SwearS to an Alibi
The states contention that DIR. Hyde
on November 21, infected the Swope
water cooler was attacked by Mrs.
Hyde when she said her husband was
not at the house on that day. Mrs.
Hyde said she and her husband Iined
with John M. Cleary and wife on the
date mentioned. Mrs. Cleary had pre-
viously, in a deposition, made the
same statement.
On December 3. following a sum-
mons from the Swope house, testified
Mrs. Hyde, she went to her mothers
residence There she found Margaret
and Chrisman i'll with typhoid. The
witness said she called her husband
to the house.
WAS Chrisman taking any medi-
cine when you reached the house ~
Queried Mr.. Walsh.
He was taking some white pellets
obtained from Jordan, Kansas City,
Kan, man." replied Mrs. Hyde.
''At Chrisman's request. 1 gave him
some of this medicine every hour until
Saturday two days before he died. He
continued to grow worse from the
time of my arrival until his death"
Mention Of Jordan's name provoked
a storm of objections from the state.
Didn't your mother once give YOU
some of Jordan's remedies, and they
made you very ill?" questioned the at
torney.
The court would not permit Mrs.
Hyde to answer.
"Chrisman made an attempt on the
Friday before his death to get some
of Jordan's remedies. didn't he?"
This was also overruled.
Twyman Handled the Case.
Going to her brother Chrisman's
room Sunday said Mrs. Hyde. she
found him suffering from a fever and
complaining about cloth being left on
his abdomen. No nurse was in the
room, testified the witness. Mrs. Hyde
said she removed the cloth and DR..
Hyde came in and took the patients
temperature.
INV husband had not been near the
room for some time before 1 found
Chrisnan suffering said the witness.
CLARK had been down stairs eating
dinner"
"Who prescribed all of the medicine
for the patients in the house?" asked
Mr. Walsh.
"Dr Twyman."
Mrs. HYDE said it was only when
she failed to get woman to go to New
York, to meet Lucy Lee Swope, that
DR.. Hyde made the trip
Scientists Disagree.
Kansas City, Mo, May 9.-The
amalgamation of formaldehyde and
ammonia in a human body does not
form hydrocyanic acid say scientists
who have been experimenting in be-
half of the state to determine an i'm
portant point at issue in the Hyde
murder trial.
These scientists. who have been
working at the University of Kansas
Iabratory, made this report to Prose
cutor Virgil Conkling today. They will
cution some day this week and testify
to the result of their Investigations. 1t
is the contention of the defense that
the mingling of the natural ammonia
in Colonel Swope's body and the for
maldehyde which was introduced into
it in an embalming fluid formed hy-
drocyanic acid. This acid il was fur
tl~,r averred, responded to the test
which the states scientists asserted
proved the presence of cyanide. DR..
Walter NJ. Cross and DIR. E. E. Smith
swore they had mixed ammonia and
the kind of embalming fluid used on
the corpse and hydrocyanic acid
formed.