The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-16

| arms and heart are open to her when
ever she wants to come home My
L have thought she was mistaken, but
! never that she was other than the
sweet innocent girl she is
Paxton Declines to Talk.
| John G. Paxton, the executor of the
Swope estate. who. with Mrs Swope,
has taken the lead in the prosecution,
declined absolutely to talk of the YER
dict.
"I have not a word to say" declared
Mr.. Paxton. 81 have been forced to
take part in this case as a matter of
duty. From the start l have fought
against being quoted in this case and
certainly 1 shall not say anything at
this time
Following the first investigation of
the SwoDe case Mr.. Paxton sent a
letter to Mr.. Fleming, a co-executor,
in Kentucky. describing the scenes at
the SWope home during the illness of
the various members. Soon thereafter
Frank P. Walsh, attorney for Dr.
Hyde. instituted suit for libel against
Mr.. Paxton, asking for 100000 dam
ages. The trial of the libel suit was
postponed when the murder trial of
DR.. Hyde was begun.
Uneasy Last Evening.
The jury left the criminal court
building about o'clock last evening
and went through the rain to the hotel
as on the first day-Saturday They
were as solemn as pallbearers. At Z
o'clock when the jury had not entered
the dining room for supper the feeling
grew for while that perhaps, at last
final ballot was near. But the hope
soon died. The jurors. worn by their
long struggle, had no desire for food,
it was believed Five or six of the
twelve were said to be sleeping, While
others talked and argued. 1t was 7:3O
before supper was eaten, and it was
eaten almost in silence.
The lateness of the meal, at first be-
Heved to be a sign of yielding, was
found to have been due to desire of
the marshal not to subject the jury TO
the public scrutiny. There were no
guests in the dining room when the
jury had supper. Two deputies sat at
the large table and two at a smaller
table near the door.
1t is doubtful if twelve more uncom-
municative men ever sat at a tabla
Occasionally. it was noticed, they spoke
to one anotho briefly, but two werc
silent throughout the meal They were
w. c. Crone of this city and Samuel r.
Johnson of Sibley, farmer. How
ever, tt passing glance gave no in
dication and could give none of the
jurors mental processes whether the
silent two were for acquittal or for
conviction.
The Jury.
W. w. Castle. painter. Sc; Kansas
City.
W. c. Crone. salesman, 60; Lees
Summit.
c. W. Whitehead, abstracter, Al;
Kansas City.
William Bebee. Matchmaker. 80;
| Kansas City.
| G. c. Feldt, salesman, s5; Kansas
City
Byron D. Lillard, conductor. 80;
Kansas City.
w. W. Curran, clerk. 30; Kansas
City.
John A. PLANT, teamster. 80; Kansas
City.
Samuel r. johnson, farmer. Al; Sib-
ley.
Frank Claypool, cattleman. 4s; Kan
sas City.
E. r. Hedges, clerk, SO; Kansas City.
Eli Rivers, bookkeeper, %; Kansas
City.
History of the Case.
DIR. B. Clark Hyde has been under
suspicion in connection with the mys-
terious deaths and illnesses in the
Swope family ever since the death of
Col. Thomas H. Swope in October
1909. The death of Colonel Swope fol-
lowed soon after he had suffered Sc
we're convulsion and the convulsion. it
was charged by members of the Swope
family, followed Immediately after the
administration of a capsule given at
the direction of DIR. Hyde. DR.. Hyde
said it was a digestive tablet.
1t was proven al the trial that DIR.
Hyde had purchased cyanide of potas-
sium in fve-grain capsules and he was
prosecuted on the BELIEF that he gave