Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-27
NEITHER SPEAKS TO MRS. HYDE
Estranged Relatives Do Not Reoog-
nize Each Other in Court.
EVER CHARGED TO PHYSICIAN
Nurse Declares He Used Infected
Water in Hypodermic.
SHE DID NOT MAKE PROTEs7
Profession Has Ironbound Rule Never
To Criticisc Attending Physician
-Twymnn Ordered Medi-
cine Destroyed.

cine Destroyed.
KANSAS CITY, April 26--There was
plenty Of testimony in the Hyde murder
trial today. Two OF Mrs. Hyde's sisters.
Lucy Lee and Sarah swope. were wit
nesses. Neither recognized Mrs. Hyde. She
made no attempt to speak to them.
Lucy Lee Swope said Or. Hyde gave her
a drink Of water while coming home on
train from New York with him on Decem-
Der H. She admitted she took some OF
the "yarb" mans (Jordan) remedies on the
train and she was IN before she reached
home Typhoid fever developed In four
days after her arrival in Independence.
Sarah Swope, who is but IA years old, was
on the stand only few minutes and was
asked only one qeust,on by the defense
Il would soon drink poison as the cis-
tern water this place." Miss Nora Bell
Dickson, second cousin OF Mrs. Logan o.
Swope testified Mrs. Hyde told her last
fall in speaking OF the water on the Swope
premises Miss Dickson also said she no.
tcedtced the drinking water at the Swope
house was bitter last November q. Chris
man Swope and Stewart Fleming noted the
Same thing, she said. All were attacked by
| typhoid in few days
Hyde and wife Laugh.
| Dr. Hyde and his wife laughed quietly
when Miss Dickson answered at least
twenty Of Attorney Walshs questions with
! Il don't remember"
After hearing Miss Dlcksons testimony
regarding her illness, Judge Latshaw
ordered 1t stricken out, as he did not re-
gard 1t as revelant to the case.
! Mrs. Swopa cried today when Mrs Mae
Pierce, a nurse, testified that in his last
hours, probably during delirium, the
nurse thought. Chrsman Swope beseeched
his caretakers to bring his mother to him,
as he knew he was going to die and wanted
to make his will.
Miss Rose Churchill, a nurse. was the
only other witness today. The trial OF
Guessing Hatred Chase Jordan ON a charge
of practicing medicine in Kansas city,
without license was set today for May g.
On accornt of the Hyde trial the hang
Ing Of Robert Davis. which was to have
taken place next Friday in the Jail across
a corridor from the court room, was today
postponed at the order of Governor Had
ley until May %.
BemORn Lost Paper.
Had Judge Latshaw known last week
so much about the disep9ea ance OF the
grand jury notes as ht u,,y knows. the
documents would never We fallen into
the hands of tho lIyle attorneys, he said,
today.
But nothing was said 10 Judge Latshaw
about the lost Laye.s until after DR..
: Hydes counsel h.d .,1Lred them.
) AS result Of the matter coming to his
5 attention so lara, Juds- Latshaw had de-
: cided to let Prosecutor Virgil Conkling
conduct the investigation and do whatever
he liked in the matter.
Three m n, whose names are not given,
are said 10 be suspected by the prosecutor
Of stealing the Iapers.
Prosecutor Conkling has asked the local
/ bar association to help solve the mystery
e. and offered to resign If It can be shown
that he Is in any way to blame for the
- loss of the papers.
r Miss Rose Churchill and Miss Elizabeth
Gordon were the only two witnesses before
v the court during ths morning session
Both went to the Swope house on Decem-
d Der and remained during the typhoid
epidemic. Their evidence was similar To
n that of other nurses who have testified.
, Dirty water In Hypodermic.
{ The state resumed It's examination of
Miss Elizabeth Gordon a nurse who
t worked in the swope home, at the opening
j. of the Hyde trial today.
= Miss Gordon was on the stand about an
/ hour at the close Of court yesterday. Her
statement that she saw Dr. Hyde use dirty
water in giving Chrisman Swope a hypo-
s. dermic Injection, came a surprise to
# both the state and the defense as the nurse
r. had never spoken Of the alleged occurrence
10 before
4 Court was convened promptly at Q o'clock
= this morning in keeping with the longer
Ie session system announced by Judge Lat.
Is shaw yesterday Hereafter at least sever
Is and one-half hours Of court VIII be held
IS every day.
A. The smallest crowd that has been pres
- ent since the trial opened was in the court
room this morning. About a hundred per-
sons were present
Special Prosecutor Reed first took the
witness through a long series Of uninter-
cstlng questions regarding her charts and
then took up the illness of Margaret Swope
- Until few minutes before Miss swope was
ii seized with a conclusion on December ls
IS she said, the girl bright and cheerful
% Twyman Orders Medicine Destroyed
81 The state attempted to get into evidence
5l the orders that were given by DR.. Twymar
% regarding the administering Of medicine al
D. TIC NouSe uuIlhs the typholu epluemlc
Is Strenuous objection by the defense cause
IS IS the court to send the jury to its room Will,
~ the point was argued.
"a The court held that the testimony might
II be introduced and Miss Gordon said DR.
II Twyman ordered that no more Of the medi.
rs cine then IN the house be given 10 the
a1I patients All OF The medicine In the hous
oi was destroyed on December Is and new
ol remedies purchased testified the witness.
ol "Dla Dr Hvde leave the house ON he
oi cember 1872 asked Mr. Reed.
15 HE did," Miss Gordon replied
40 40 How did the patients progress after hi
la departurc?"
la They got Well"
NJ Mr.. Brewster began cross-examinatioi
Of the witness. lie drew from her the ad
mission that Margaret swope and Mis-