The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-14
FATE Of HYDE NOW
RESTING WITH
THE Jury
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were warned TO clear the room as
soon as possible and to use strenuous
efforts 10 prevent a demonstration.
seems a Social Gathering.
More than a dozen personal friends
of DIT. Hyde and his wife remained in
the room with the couple. The scene
more resemb1ed a social gathering than
the converting of fntimates about man
upon whom judgment that might
Seated la the center of the little circle
OF people. the physician lighted a cigar.
tilted back his chair and began to tell
and joking.
But the aged father of DR.. Hyde was
not present The long hours Of the
trial have exhausted him. When the
last speech was finished, he went TO his
hotel and retired.
While Mrs. B. Clark Hyde wept con-
vuisively. Attorney Ccnklins today
asked the jury that is To pass Judgment
upon her husband to inflict the death
penalty upon the physician The i'm
FASHIONED appeal Of the prosecutor did
not move DR.. HYDE. When Mr. COnk-
ling had ended his plea to the jury to
send the defendant TO death. the ply
stefan turned about in his chair, and
smiling at his wife, said;
Why, that man wants to hang me-"
Still sObbing. Mrs. Hyde put her arm
upon her husbands shoulder, but said
nothing.
Final Argument for State.
Attorney James A. Reed began his
o'clock tonight. Mr. Reed argued
at the outset of his talk that Or. Hyde
began to collect testimony last Decem-
Der 10 use in his trial, although at that
time no charge had been filed against
him.
he did not go 10 Mrs swope when
he found he was suspected and plead
with her to have autopsies made on
the bodies of Colonel and Chrisman
Swope, to prove they did not die of
poisoning" said he. mo, he left her
house and came to Kansas CITY and
employed experts TO begin the study
of poisons.'
The reason DR.. Hyde said 81 don't
remember so many times on the wit
ness stand, averred Mr. Reed was be-
cause he could not weave falsehoods
fast enough to cover his evil acts. DR..
Hyde was characterized as physician
who had grown so accustomed to suf-
fering and hardened to crime that he
was able to commit the atrocities he
Is said to have committed in the Swope
house without flinching.
They are trying to hide this mans
guilt behind the skirts of his wife"
] say. as the years go by she will rea-
lie how much better it would have
been If on the night of last December
is she had remained with her mother.
as she was asked TO do
Hyde's Greed for Gold.
The attorney described Hyde's greed
FOR gold as one that made him holder
every time he accomplished a crime
and added to his wealth. With Moss
Hunton gone, he said. the physician
was nerved TO do away with Colonel
Swope: the coming into his hands of a
part of Chrisman Swope's property led
him to poison Margaret SwOpe hop
ing her money, too, would roll into his
Golfers.
oh, he would poison the whole fam
Time after time as Mr.. Reed FRO
dressed, Attorney Walsh rose 10 correct
MIN on what he averred were errors in
the states presentation of TESTIMONY
The Jury will remember the evil |
dence. Let the attorney proceed" said
Judge Latshaw.
Although he was unable To speak di-
recly of DR.. Hyde being charged with /
grave robbing, a few years ago. Mr. |
Reed brought the matter to the minds |
of the jury by talking of DR.. q. 4. ivy
man. the Swope family physician, who /
recently died
HE was an honest man." said the at
torney- He never robbed a grave in /
his life. OF all the defenses that have
ever been set UP in a case, this is the |
Strangest-' he continued. AT first IT /
was set up that Colonel SwOpe cied of /
hardening or the arteries. Next il was
said he had uraemic poisoning. And |
then the defendant got on the stand and /
died from old-fashioned apoplexy. At /
gitis. Then they tried 70 prove that he |
died of typhoid. Seeing that this would /
not do, they went back TO meningitis
Purchases of Cyanide.
Mr. Reed assaulted the physician for |
his cyanide purchases for the alleged 1
purpose Of killing cockroaches.
When did cockroaches begin eating /
cyanide?" he said.
The spectators broke into laughter
And when he was summoned before
DR.. Twyman TO explain his actions. like
a criminal throws away MS revolver, he
discarded the capsules. md Tom Swope
picked them up"
Great Crowd Unr,Ily.
Outside the court building a giant
mob began TO battle early this after
noon for vantage points from which to
gain entrance to the night session. So
eral deputy marshals were delegated 10
preserve order. The Jhrong was then
Lined up two abreast. The lire ex-
tended around two sides of the court
house and more than n block beyond
Prosecutor Conling's address was Sc
we're. He told the jury plainly, he
believed DR.. Hyde guilty. and for this
reason was working so hard to convict
him He pleaded the case be disposed
OF in this trial If the present arraign-
ment fails to bring a verdict, he f:.tf-
mated, the defendant would never be
brought to trial again.
As gentle as Mr.. Conkling's speech |
was severe was the final argument for
the defense. delivered by Attorney John
Lucas Lucas appealed 20 the Jurors
uron the ground that the life of DR..
Hyde showed him to be an honest coIp-
try boy who had never .iune any ham.
The attorney also called attention to the
TACT that Dr. Hyde's father is n minister