The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-11
DID DR.. HYDE PLAN
MURDER OF WIFE?
Prosecutor Has New Theory AL
legged to Be Borne Out by
Some Evidence.
MRS. HYDE'S WILL LEFT
PROPERTY TO PHYSICIAN
According to Swope Will, Mrs.
Hyde Receives About Three
Hundred Thousand.

KANSAS CITY, March 1O-It de-
vcloped today that during the trial of
DR., y. c. Hyde here next mouth on
charge OF poisoning Colonel Thomas
n. Swopc the prosecution will attempt
to show that following q suggestion
made to her. Mrs. HYDE made a Will
bequeathing all her property to her
husband Under the will of Colonel
Swope, Mrs. Hyde was beneficiary
TO the amount of more than S300.000
The will alleged 10 have been made
by Mrs. Hyde. the Swope attorneys say.
wns drawn up soon after DR., HYDE 's
dismissal from the Swope home, where
he had been treating the Swopes.
Theory of Prosecution
In the trial of Hyde an attempt Will
be made TO show that Mrs. HYDE was
Wtaken seriously i'll; that it was sug
gested to her an operation might be
necessary and that she made her will,
leaving all her property TO her hus-
band in the event that the operation
the Swope attorneys say. that the oper-
alton was not necessary.
IT is said that John G.. Paxton re-
lated the story of Mrs. Hvde5s will
TO the grand jury that indicted DR..
HYDE.
DR.. E. L. Stewart. bacteriologist,
will be ono OF the principal witnesses
for the prosecution on this point, it was
SAID today.
Will Probe to the Bottom.
The entire story will be told at the
trial John II. Atwood, one Of the at
torneys for the Swope estate, said:
CDR, Stewart s testimony will come out
in the drst trial If the case of Thomas
II. Swope is taken up first, but every
thing will be developed before we are
through. -
DR.. Hvde's attorney dscrcditcd the
charge that Mrs, Hyde had been induced
to make a will in her husband s favor.
John M. Cleary. an attorney for DIT.
Hyde. said: ''It Is only another dis
torted story that is being used against
an innocent man We know the full
story from Mrs. Hyde. who says il is
absurd. The suggestion that the Will
be made came from an outside person,
and DR.. Hyde was asked to make his
will at the same time.
Testimony Of Nieces.
Lucy Lee Swopc and Margaret L.
Swopc. nicces Of Colonel Swope. gave
their dcpositious today Lucy Swopc s
testimony discreditcd the reports that
Dr. HYDE had offered her several drinks
of water, which were slightly discol-
urcd. while the TWO were coming to
Kansas City from New y Nork ON Miss
Swope S return from Paris. He offered
her only ono drink, she said, and this
after she had remarked that she was
thirsty,
Margaret II. Swopc testified TO the
medical rcatmeut Dr. HYDE gave her.
On December IL, said Miss Swopc. DR..
Hyde gave her hypodermlc injection.
An hour or two later she became i'll.
This, Miss Swopc deposed WAS the last
time DIR Hyde treated her December
Is. she testified. she again became Ill.
The matter elected from her stomach
during this attack was found to con
tain strychninc.
Calling attention 10 bcr statement
that DIR, Hyde ceased treating her after
December II. Attorney Walsh asked
Miss Swopc who attended her after that
date. Miss Swopc answered that DR..
Twyman. the SwOpc family physician,
began treating her after December H.
did not Dr. Twyman give YOU hy
podcrmlc injections, too3'' Mr.. Walsh
questioned.
''Ycs.' replied Miss Swopc, "'but
| cannot remember ON what dayS, or
how many times.
Mr.. Walsh next cudcaYorcd 10 draw
from tue witness whether DR.. Twypau
had given her bypodcrmic injection
ON December is. Again the witness |
was unable 10 remember
''Ibc only medicine | remember tax |
ING on that day she said was o
capsule given me bv Miss lioulchan,
4 nurse,