Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-23
FEVER FOLLOWED
DR.. HYDE'S CANDY
GIFT, SAYS NURSE
Physician Accused of Murder of
Colonel SWOpe Surprised
by Testimony
SPECTATORS HEAR GR0ANS
Witness Gives Imitation of How
Two Persons Died and
Causes Scare
SPECTATORS HEAR GR0ANS
Associated Pressl

II ANSAS CITY, April 22.-Seven
DAYS after DIR. B. c. Hyde gave
IA Miss Stella owope a box of candy
the young woman developed typhoid
fever testified Miss Anna Houlihan, a
nurse in the Swope family, during the
murder trial this afternoon.
For the first time in all the broad
investigation Of the Swope tragedies
was the question of candy brought into
the case.
The mention of the candy came as a
surprise to DIR. Hyde and his counsel
DR.. Hyde, who was sitting tilted back
in his chair, smilngly listening to the
testimony of the nurse, quickly moved
over to his attorneys and entered into
a conference with them. Mrs. Hyde
soon ioined the little group. For sew
eral minutes they talked earnestly.
1T is a significant feature, but can
not say Just what will develop from an
investigation of it," said Special Prose-
cutor James A. Reed later.
Attorneys for Dr. Hyde said they did
noto regard the testimony seriously.
The death of Chrsman Swope and
the illness of Margaret Swope were
reviewed on the witness stand today
by Miss Houlihan. She caused the
threatened walkout of the nurses at
the Swope home and demanded an in
yestigation of DR.. Hyde, December is.
Miss Houlihan was on the stand
practically all day. Her story was long
and interesting. 1t was filled with
striking utterances and vivid descrip-
tions that held the attention of the
spectators.
TESTIMONY Is GRUESOME
At times the testimony was almost
gruesome. In telling of DIR. Hyde's ac-
tions after Chrisman Swope had died,
lying crosswise on a bed, she said;
"Dr. Hyde grasped the dead man by
the feet and turned him around in
bed"
'sRow did he do it?" asked Attorney
Reed. 90 ,-.t !
"Roughly," she replied.
In attempting to initiate the means
of Christian and of Margaret Swope,
the witness gave utterance to a weird
cry of anguish like that of suffering
animal.
Spectators, unaware OF her intention
TO make the sound, rose quickly from
their seats, thinking some i'll had be-
fallen her.
Cross-examination OF Miss Keller,
Col Swopes nurse, was concluded soon
after court convened this morning.
Albert NJ. OFT. an attorney and
banker of Independence, succeeded
Miss Keller on the stand. His tesu-
mony corroborated Miss Keller's story
of the bleeding of James Moss Hunton
by DIR. Hyde.
Miss Anna Houlihan, who nursed the
typhoid patients in the Swope home,
was next called over the protest of
DIR. Hyde's counsel the witness began
an account of the death of Chrisman
Swope.
The court advised the jury in case
testimony about this death did not tend
to prove motive on the part of DR..
Hyde in the alleged murder of Col.
Swope, the evidence would be ordered
excluded.
During the afternoon session Miss
Houlihan went at great length into the
circumstances surrounding the death of
Chrisman Swope She told of every
symptom and of the instructions to her
by DR.. Hyde, describing the actions of
the patient from the time he swallowed
a capsule supplied by DR.. Hyde, until
his death shortly afterward. She said
Chrisman Swope was conscious when
she went to her dinner, leaving DR..
Hyde in the sick room, but was un-
conscious and in a CONFUSION when
she returned