Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-15
GRAND JURY BEGINS
Investigation Into Mystery Will Be
Guarded with Secrecy.
PAXTON RESUMES HIS STORY
Executor of Estate Continues Testi-
mOny in Deposition I'm Civil Suit
Nurses Will BE Called
to DepOse.

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 14-All witnesses
who tell their stories to the grand jury
that today began Investigating the Swope
mystery, may have to repeat them before
Frank p. Walsh, the attorney who Is
prosecuting DR.. r. Clark Hyde's suit for
alleged Islander. James Awkward, one OF
Mr. lWalsh,s assistants, stationed himself
near the entrance of the grand jury room
today and as the witnesses appeared to
testify he served them with subpoenaes.
Still another inquiry into the case will be
started on Wednesday, when in Kansas
City, Kan, the deposition of Or. c. H.
Jordan, Who had prescribed medicine for
the Swope family. Will be taken.
The grand jury has been afforded every
facility to assist its member in getting
information concerning the swope' mystery.
Every person who is believed to have any
knowledge Of the case has been subpoenaed
as a witness. The court officials have an
nounced that special precautions have been
taken to keep any news from leaking from
the grand jury room. The officials refused
today to state in what order the witnesses
would testify, and it was impossible to
learn what important witness would be
! called first.
Much Importance attaches to the testi-
mony to be given by the three specialists,
DR., Ludwig Hektoen and DR.. Walter S.
Hams Of Chicago, and DR., Victor Vaughn
Of Ann Arbor, Mich. The evidences to be
given by these physicians, II is believed,
will be the most valuable the grand jurors
will have to consider when they form their
conclusions as to what caused the deaths
in the Swope family.
Swope Nurses "a, Testify.
John @. Paxton resumed his story in the
office OF Frank p. Walsh this morning.
Mr.. Paxton's deposition which was full of
sensations Saturday again supplied the
most interesting phase of the days pro-
ceedinBs in the unravellng of the Swope
mystery as he answered the searching ques-
tions Of the Hyde attorneys. The tesu-
mony given as dispositions in the civil
suits will be valuable should criminal pro-
ceedings arise as the result of the grand
jury Investigation. The testimony can be
! used, however, only in trying to impeach
witnesses. Both sides in q criminal suit
would have access to the dispositions
whether the civil suit had been dismissed
or remained In court.
Mrs. Logan o. Swope and the Swope
nurses may next be called upon to give
their dispositions in the civil suits.
Medicine Contained Strychnine.
o.. II. Gentry, a druggist Of Independence,
Mo, giving his deposition in the office OF
Frank p. Walsh today, testified that he
sent a bottle of medicine containing
s%trychnine to the Swope home for Colonel
Swope's use just one week before the mil
lionaire died.
Mr.. Gentry said he was almost certain
that it was on September 80 that Moss
Hunton telephoned for a bottle OF the med
I lcine for Cousin Tom" Mr.. Hunton him
self died the next day, October l.
Mr.. Gentry said that each ~teaspoonful
Of the medicine contained 1-10Sth OF a
| grain OF stryehnine and hat each bottle
contained four-fifteenths of a grain. The
witness testified that he had not sold more
than four bottles of the medicine to the
Swopes in the year before Colonel Swope
died.
Frank F. Walsh announced today that
a sheriff with a writ OF attachment would
guard the entrance to the grand jury room
while DR.. Hektoen is testifying next
Wednesday and that the physician would
be served with the writ as he emerged
from the grand jury hearing and be taken
TO Mr.. WaIsh'ss office to give his opinion
in DR.. Hyde's damage suit. Dr.. Hektoen
was subpoenaed to give his deposition
while he was here for the coroner's in
quest and Mr.. Walsh asserts that the spe-
ciAlist ignored the
Miss Pearl Kellar, the nurse who attended
Colonel Swope was among the witnesses
summoned by the grand jury today.
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