The San Francisco call., 1910-04-20
DIR. HYDE'S LAWYER
FLAYS CHEMISTS
Charges Trickery Against Men
Whose Analysis Showed
Poison in Body

KANSAS CITY, April 19.-"Colonel
Swope will never return to Kansas
City"
This prophecy, testified Miss Pearl
Keller, nurse, in the Hyde murder
trial today, was made to her by DR..
| B. c. Hyde in independence, Mo-. few
days before Colonel Swope died. She
| was Colonel Swope's nurse.
Doctor Hydes remark, said Miss KEEL
| ler, was made when she informed the
physician that Colonel Swope planned
| to come here to his Office in few
days. Her patient was at that time,
condition than he had been for weeks.
| He was able to take daily drives and
seemed in good spirits, she said.
This was the only important bit of
| testimony Miss Keller had given in
| the trial this afternoon, when a legal
debate arose and she was excused
while the court heard arguments.
| Between the time Doctor Hyde is
alleged to have made the remark and
Colonel Swopes death, James Moss
| Hunton, cousin of Swope, succumbed.
LEGAL POINT DEBATED
Miss Keller, who was taking up the
Swope mysteries in chronological or
| der, had begun to tell of the illness of
Hunton when the defense objected. At
| torneys for Doctor Hyde claimed testi-'
mony regarding no other death or ILL
ness than that of Colonel Swope should
! be admitted in the present trial. Be
! fore Miss Keller resumes the stand
| this point will be decided
|
court upholds the objection, no evidence
| regarding the death of Hunton or
! Chrisman Swope, the illness of Mar
| garet Swope or the typhoid epidemic
| in the Swope house will be admitted
The court has held up to this time
! that the state should be permitted to
| introduce all the testimony named, as
it is intended to show motive on the
! part of the defendant.
Miss Keller was the first important
witness called by the state this after
noon. Three men, Oscar CogsWelI
Jesse j. Vineyard and F. T. Chiles,
were asked to identify Colonel Swope's
will and the appraisement list of his
personal property.
Frank P. Walsh delivered the OPEN
ing statement for the defense TODAY.
| occupying the entire morning session.
His address contained many rebukes
| for Mrs. Logan O. Swope, charges of
to make the analyses of the yisceras
of Thomas II. and Chrisman Swope.
and a prediction that the defense
would be able to disprove every charge
made against Doctor Hyde by the
| state.
OUTLINE OF DEFENSE
In part Walsh said the defense would
introduce testimony to prove that:
One-Nether Doctor Hyde nor
his wife knew before the death of
Colonel Swope whether they were
to share in the residuary of his
estate
second-Mr. Logan o. swope was
Hyde because she thought he
gave Mrs. Hyde financial advice
contrary to. the opinions of her
.Third-The charge that cyanide
of potassium had been found in
the organs of Colonel and Chris
trick trumped up by the prose
cution. Doctor Hyde had such poi
son in his office to eradicate
family had taken medicine com
pounded by Guessing Hatred Chase
Johnson, an alleged South Ameri-
can doctor, who holds no physi-
clans certificate.
Fifth-Sanitary conditions alone
were we're responsible for the, spread of
Sfxth-Orignal statements from
the Swope chemists stated there
was no poison either in the stom-
ach of Miss Margaret Swope or in
capsules thrown away by Doctor
Hyde; but when Paxton was sued
by the physician, report of the
presence OF poison was instantly
made.
Seventh-Every attempt of the
defense to gain possession of the
visceras of the two Swopes to make
medical examinations had been re-
pulsed.
Eighth-.In removing the organs
of Colonel and Chrisman Swope
little care was exercised, so that
the organs as examined were
not in the same condition as when
in the bodies.
Ninth-Colonel Swope practically
up to the day of his death took
various. medicines containing
Tenth-Doctor Hyde never told
Miss Keller, in handing her cap
sule for Colonel Swope, to Make
Eleventh-Dr. G. T. Twyman held
the tiestring which controlled the
flow of blood from James Moss
Huntons body when Doctor Hyde
showed Doctor Hyde was not at the
swope residence on many, days
spread typhoid germs there
hirteenth-Doctor Hyde and
Colonel Swope were the best of
friends, and the physician was al
ways kind to the old man.
Fourteenth-There was no desire
on Doctor Hyde's part. either covert
or expressed. to act as an executor
of the estate of Colonel Swope.
Fifteenth-Colonel Swope was in
such a physical condition that his
demise might have been expected
at any time.
Sixteentb-The tests used by the
chemists to search for the strych-
nine in the bodies would not prove
conclusively that this poison and
not another had been found
Seventeenth-Colonel Swope new
er refused to take any medicine
left for him by Doctor Hyde
All these things Walsh said he would
prove by his own witnesses and by ad