Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-12
Chrisman Swope Died Soon After
Taking Medicine in Capsule.
STORY LIKE MISS KELLAR's
Disease at First Was Nothing But
Typhoid Fever.
BIG ESTATE IS APPRAISED
It's Value is About Three ana Half
MIlliOns-Inheritance Tax, which
Goes 10 University, Is
S1T5,OOO.

KANSAS CITY Feb. 1l.7-It was asserted
today that the special grand jury which
VIII meet tomorrow to investigate the
Swope mystery was summoned more TO in
vestigate the circumstances surrounding
Chrisman Swopes' death than to probe
further into the manner and cause of the
death of his uncle, Colonel Thomas H.
Swope And again It will be a nurse who
will give the important Testimony.
In the hands of the Swope attorneys is
the sworn statement Of this nurse Miss
Houlehan. This statement is even as dra-
matte as the story related by Miss Pearl
Keller on the witnessstand 1t tells of her
being summoned to the Swope home 10
care for Chrisman Swope who was stricken
with typhoid. The nurse describes minutely
the symptoms, those Of the straight ty-
phoid patient the high fever, the irregu-
lar pulse
And then It tells Of the convulsions in
which Chrlsman Swope died 1t was about
$3.50 o'clock Sunday afternoon, the nurse
states in her affidavit, that she was told
Chrisman had been given a capsul. Thirty
minutes later followed the commissions. al
most idenacally the same as those In which
Colonel Swope died The nurse tells OF the
injection of one-forteth Of a grain of
9AiyCilllii dnu laleI OF the use OF n nitro
glycerine injection. This was Sunday aft
ernoon. The next day Chrisman died. All
this the grand jury will hear when 1t
meets to probe into the Swope mystery
Hyde Keeps silence.
In the whirl of legal battles, formal ac-
cusations and veiled charges, the attorneys
for DR.. Hyde keep silent.
I'VE are not ready to talk yst" Frank
al Dr IIxrdo IL
story until he tells it to the jury that tries
him for his life, II he is tried Then ne
will explain everything and knock the props
out from under all the charges"
The appralsement of the Swope estate to-
day showed It's total value to be about
sS5O0,OOO. The University of Missouri win
receive per cent or $4,000 OF this
amount, as Inheritance tax.
Henry Jost, first assistant prosecuting
attorney, said it would require ten days
or more for the grand jury to finish its
investigation of the deaths Witnesses viii
not be disposed OF hastily, he said.
1t was stated at the prosecutors office
that the examination of witnesses before
the grand jury will begin tomorrow after
noon.
The grand Jurors summoned by the mar
shall today are:
T. ]. Green, Kansas City, real estate
dealer; Il. ID. Spruel Dallas, farmer; Wal
ter Rider, Independence, real estate dealer;
John II. Moody, Independence, real estate
dealer; James G. Burnley, Buckneer
banker; e. n. Montgomery, Blue Springs,
banker William Warren, Grain Valley,
hardware merchant Julian Jackson, Lone
Jack, farmer Robert Howard, Lees Sum-
init, farmer; Fred Taylor, Kansas City,
ter. Kansas city manager U' drySoo3s 9R COM y
pany; II. C. Gardner. Kansas City, buyer
for wholesale grocery company
| The preliminary hearing In the justice
court at Independence on the charge of
murder against Dr. Hyde by John G. Pax
] ton will be continued from time to tilSa, It
/ was announced today, pending the final
report of the grand jury. If the grand jury
returns an indictment against any one the
case in the justice court win be dismissed
| Practically the same result will be reached
/ If no Indictment is returned, as in that
case there probably will be no further ef-
forts to prosecute any one for the deaths
in the Swope family
Battle of Lawyers.
/ Following the sensational developments
in the Swope case yesterday, when
Dr. B. C. Hyde was arrested, charged
with the murder of his wifes uncle,
Thomas H. Swope. and a grand jury
was summoned to convene tomorrow
and make thorough investigation
of all the circumstances surrounding the
Swope mystery, battle of lawyers TO Sc
cure the depositions Of important witnesses
in the damage suit brought by Dr. Hyde
against John G. Paxton for alleged slander
was resumed today.
In this civil suit DR.. Hyde demands $50 90,
actual damages and $4,000 punitive dam,
ages because Mr. Paxton wrote letter tc
Stewart S. Fleming, an executor of the
Swope estate at Columbia, Tenn contain.
ing statements which Dr. Hyde charges
slandered him.
Mr.. Paxton had been summoned to ap
pear al the office OF Frank p. Walsh, DR.
Hyde's leading attorney, to give his depo
sition in the case today 1t was believed
that Mr.. Paxtons testimony would occupy
several hours time. Members of the Swop,
family also had been subpoenaed by Mr.
Walsh.
Hyde's Temporary Advantage.
AT the present time the Hyde forces seen
to have obtained an advantage In the TAX
ing of depositions. Mr.. Paxton's attorney
can take no dispositions today, as they ha,
subpoenaed witnesses TO testify in another
ciyil suit brought by DR.. Hyde. but which
was dismissed yesterday as a part of tn,
strategy OF the Hyde attorneys.
The testimony OF Dr. Chassez Hatred
Chase Jordan OF Kansas City, Kan. whit
at one time prescribed medicine for tn,
Swope family, may be injected into tn
deposiuon-taklng. Every effort has beer
made to subpoenae DR.. Jordan. but he 4
IN with pneumonia and the subpoena
servers so far have failed to reach him.
Since Dr. Hydes arrest the records o
; William Jewell college, a Baptist institu
2 tion at Liberty. Mo-. from which he wa
! graduated In 1892 have been searched. ]
developed that Hydes record as a studen
: was excellent, and that he was popula
with both his instructors and class mates
DR. H. q. Parker present head OF th
/ department OF chemistry at william Jewel
college, who was a class mate Of DR. Hyde
says that as a student OF chemistry Hyd,
!. 80. -. -. "a.