Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-13
MRS. SWOPE TALKS
TONEWSPAPER MEN
Gave Way to Her Emotions and
Wept Bitterly as She Re-
called the Past.
OLD HOME ISN'T WHAT IT WAS
Her Daughter Laughed and JOsed With
Her Husband. Accused Of Fathers
Murder. While Mother sobbed.

Kansas city. April 18-After sitting.
with fixed countenance and apparent
uncoucern for two days in the court
room. Mrs Logan O. Swope gave way
20 her emotions and wept bitterly as
she talked with newspapermen soon
after the trial Of Dr. q. G.. Hyde opened
today.
Recalling her home when col. Thorn
as r. swope was alive and no serious
factonal strife was apparent in tho
Swope family, the grsy-haired woman
contrasted il with the present lonely
residence
"The old home is nv longer the place
that il was 30 the days when Col
swope and Miss Hunton were alive
she said. Those were happy times.
There was life and happiness in the
old Independence homestead then. But
now the rooms seem cold and bare
since my beloved friends have gone
away
Il am not Ia this courtroom by
choice. My presence here is due only
to a desire to see that justice is done
and the guilty is convicted. II is not
a pleasure TO sit here and undergo this
ordeal But IL Is my duty and / viii
suffer much 10 perform it properly"
While Mrs. swope talked, her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Hyde. sat a few feet away
laughing and joking with her husband.
She did not know her mother was
crying for she could not see her.
In the midst OF her tears. Mrs. Swope
stopped speaking for moment and
silently regarded the defendant and
his wife. u brought back TO her mind
the days OF their courtship. Sobbing
violently. she began 20 tell OF the time
when Or Hyde came into her family
circle. She spoke a Few words on this
phase Of the case and then supported
by the arm OF her attorney. she arose
and left the courtroom.
INsURGENT VENIREMEN
The cause OF the insurgent venire-
men in the HYDE murder trial, who
yesterday questioned the constitutional
rieht OF Judge Ralph $. Latshaw 10
remand them TO the custody N tbs
marshal until a jury is obtained, and
We're released. was lost today, The
court announced that it's reason FOR
granting them their release last night
was on account OF the small number
Of talesmen present ana not because
of any question as 20 its legal right 10
hold them.
"All yenircmen will he IN charge Of
the county marshal from this time
until finally excused said the Judge.
Although Dr. hyde is stll as affable
and smiling as he was when the trial
opened. he expresses discontinue to-
day az the slowness with which jurors
are being obtained
Il hope this ls the last day Of ques-
tioning veniremen." he said. II want 10
get through with the trial as soon as
poss bile %
In order to expedite the selection of
the remaining % temporary jurymen
20 ON out the panel OF AZ The attorneys
today adopted "a new plan OF eXamin-
ing NCnircmen.
Each man was called separately into
the jury room and interrogated. Here
tofore the unexamined veniremeu have
been permitted 20 hear the questioning
OF an prospective Jurors Attorneys
believe the answers tended 10 influence
the opinions 90 other venlremen
one hundred and fifty new venirc-
men were subpOenaed yesterday and
the greater number of them were pre-
sent today for service. Prosecutor Nir-
gil Conkling hopes that IL Will not be
necessary 90 call any more men for
examination
Under the new plan OF Interrogation
/ believe We shall soon an out the
panel OF the temporary jury" he said.
II probably viii boz "a hours after the
jury OF A. is chosen before the fnal
I. men who viii try the case are
agreed upon. There viii be no fur
,har examination n the court but the
attorneys will make their selections In
private The state must first exercise
jas D. ueremptorv challenges. From the
list Of ~ tentative jurymen the de-
Tense VIII strike or 90 The remaining
D. will compose the jury.