The Mena weekly star., 1910-05-12
MRS. HYDE ON STAND
WIFE OF ACCUSED DOCTOR TEST. FEES IN HUSBAND BEHALF
 AT KANSAS CITY.
DAUGHTER AGAINST MOTHER
Witness Declared That the swope Family and Nurses Had Misrepre. sented Happenings at the Stricken Home-Cried as She Testified.

Kansas City, May 10.-Mrs. Hyde went to the witness stand at g o'clock In her husbands defense. A trife paier, perhaps, than she has yet ap. peared, this wife who has turned her back upon her mother and brother and sisters. walked past them, her head erect, held up her right hand and swore to tell the truth.
 State Witnesses contradicted.
 Cleared of the almost innumerable objections of the state, the testimony of Mrs. Hyde contradicted hatly the witnesses for the prosecution on these points:
 She denied that she asked her hus. band to cease bleeding Moss Hunton while suffering with apoplexy. She declared Moss Hunton's arm was first washed and that the water used was in the jar that had the blood-and was, Of course, measured with it.
 She said. emphatically, that Colonel Swope did not exclaim, when he re. covered consciousness after the con. vulsion October 3, "I wish 1 hadn't taken that medicine" but that he cried, "Oh, my Cod, I wish I were dead; let me down lower; my head Is too hogh."
 All Ate of Candy.
 She contradicted the story of her sis. ter, Estella, about the candy taken to the home by Doctor Hyde Estalla said the Hydes did not eat any of the candy. Mrs. Hyde said the candy was passed around in the sitting room and that she and Doctor Hyde and every. one else ate some.
 She said that for more than a year she had drunk no water at the Swope home, that she and her husband had warned her mother against the cistern water and that she put bottled water in the ice chest where all the family could use it. She said Doctor Twyman prescribed every dose of medicine taken by the patients during the ty. phoid epidemic.
 Jordan's Pills Again. She told how she found her brother | Chrisman, taking Jordan, the 'yarb doctor's," pills when she went to her mothers home to care for him and that he took these pills every thirty minutes for two days-and perhaps longer-up to 8:3O o'clock Saturday morning, December 4, and that throughout that time he was hot and restless and his face was flushed. She heard Chrisman talk to Jordan on the telephone.
 She contradicted practically every. thing the nurses testified to in the states presentation. She went over up 10 noon--every point touched upon as to the events in the rooms of the patients.
 Contradicted Her Mother.
 She said her mother believed Doctor Hyde should go to New York to meet Lucy Lee Swope, who was returning from Paris. Her testimony here was a direct contradiction of her mother's She, Mrs Hyde, told her mother it would be better for Doctor Hyde to go Mary Hickman, who had been suggest ed for the trip, had never been in New York and Mrs Swope said q think Clark had better go'
 No Emotion by Mrs. swope.
 Mrs. Hyde said she--and not her mother-bought and paid for the ticket to New York. This Is denial of Mrs Swope's story on the stand.
 An important contradiction by Mrs Hyde was that Doctor Hyde gave Miss Kellar, Colonel Swope's nurse. box Of digestive capsules the night of October 2. This was in Mrs. Hyde's presence. She saw the box in the coloneis room the next day