Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-05-19
THE EVIDENCE ALL|N
BOTH SIDES HAVE CLOSED IN
DR.. HYDE TRIAL AT
KANSAS CITY.
FIRST DEGREE OR ACQUITTAL
Evidence On Last Day Was Confined
Largely to Combating Statements
Made by Accused and His
Wife.

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Kansas City, May l6.-Mrs. Frances
Swopc Hyde, wife of Dr.. b. G.. Hyde,
who vent upon the witness stand in
his defense, finished her direct ex-
animation shortly after the neon re-
cess. Her final testimony was 4 fiat
denial OF the testimony Of her brother,
Thomas Swope, that he followed DR..
Hyde and saw him drop cyanide cap
ule upon the ground.
Mrs. Frances Swope Hyde literally
Jumped into each and every yawning
gap that DIR. B. Clark Hyde will have
10 bridge before he is acquitted of the
murder OF Col. Thomas II. Swope, and
In the criminal court, explained away
so many doubts raised by the prosecu-
ton in the trial Of Or. Hyde that her
story lost a great deal of the force
that 1t had been anticipated she would
give the defense.
According to admissions she made
from the witness stand, it was she, and
not her husband who objected to the
wooden cooler in the Swope home and
introduced for her y particular use
and that of her husband distilled
water.
Saw DR.. Twyman Hold the string.
She saw DR.. George +. Twyman, now
dead, hold a string about the open vein
in the arm OF Mos lIunton and OBJ.
served that he had power TO stanch the
blood at any instant that she an
rounccd hat the %throbhing sensation
had left the sick mau'5 head.
She 1t vas who arranged the hours
of work for the nurses at her mothers
home so that no one nurse would have
ma m patient, but that all might take
turns at looking after each of the sick
people. 1t was she who talked with
her mother In the presence OF Miss
Keller, the nurse, fDout having DR..
Hyde appointed as executor OF the
estate of Col. Thomas II. Swope and
DR.. Hyde said nothing about his hopes
and aspirations at that time.
It Was She Who Did Things.
In fact it was she who did every
thing about which the state in making
It's case against DR.. Hyde threw the
cloak OF suspicion, except the injecting
OF ~camphorated oil into the arm OF
Margaret awope and the purchase Of
cyanide Of potassium in fve-grain cap
sules from the Brecklein Drug COM
pany.
Mrs. Hyde was an effective witness.
which ever way the casual spectator
viewed her. She knew her story very
well and she knew just exactly what
sort Of a reply each question called
for. She knew that when she was ask
ed TO relate the details Of bleeding Col.
Moss Hunton she should say that the
fluid was permitted to flow into a basin
which already had in it the water used
in washing the arm of the sick man,
Il took no second question to elicit this
from her.
Nurses Not Accurate.
Mrs. Hyde c%ontradicted one materia
bit OF her mothers testimony anc
played havoc with the stories told b.
all of the nurses. She sad it was Mrs
Swope who suggested that DR.. Hyde e
to New York 10 meet Miss Lucy Lee
Swope upon her return from Europe
and that she did not hear Dr. Hyde
!, make the offer OF his own volition
Mrs. Hyde made sure that the jury I'm
, derstood that she stayed at the Swop
I home because mother needed me,
and in answer to several questions sh
a took occasion to say that she was dc
ing her best at all times to take re
Y sponsibility off the shoulders OF he
mother.
Kansas City, May 11.-Bennett Clar
q Hyde. the man accused of murderin
Col. Thomas II. Swope and attemptin
9 wholesale slaughter In the Swope fan
n ily for his own financial ~aggrandiz
ment, made a poor witness In his ow
Il defense.
He had no plausible explanation II
his purchase OF cyanide OF potassiu
I'm five.grain capsules during u
IS months OF September and December
h. last year, but more than that his oN
demeanor on the witness stand can
c, close to being a body blow to his cas-
IN He was nervous, at times irritable, al
I'd plainly ~belligerent. pleading once I
flair play" when a tangle OF question
to presented itself and sparring for tin
Id by repeating interrogatories that we
he put 10 him before venturing to ma
nd a reply. His voice Ia scarcely au
BILE until Judge Latshaw called his
ed tention to the fact. Even then 1t W
,is little more than a whisper hat pei
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