Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-02-18
NURSES QUIT CASE.
STORY OF DEATH OF SWOPE
TOLD In COURT.
Doctor Charged With Crime Sues Wit
ness Against Him for 100000 Dam
ages-Nurse Makes Remark That
People Are Being Murdered in
This House"

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 13.-John G.
Paxton has submitted to the demand
that he give his deposition in the suit
brought against him by DR.. Hyde ask
ing 100000 for alleged SANDER. He
refused to include in his deposition,
however, any part of the report of the
analysis of the contents of the organs
of the Swopes made to him by DR..
Ludwig Hektoen of Chicago.
The session ended in a clash be-
tween Frank ?. Walsh, the attorney
for DR.. Hyde, and Paxton, because Pax
ton had declined to furnish certain tes-
timony. Mr.. Walsh said he would re-
sort to court proceedings to compel
Paxton to give the desired information.
Attorney Walsh insisted that Paxton
testify about contents of all the let
tiers and other communications from
DR.. Kektoen bearing upon pathological
Examination. Mr.. Paxton refused to
divulge any part of the reports made
to him by the Chicago specialist, ig-
noring the order of the notary that he
produce the communications or testify
as to their contents.
Mr.. Paxton testified in regard to
the alleged strike of the nurses in
the Swope household He said that all
the nurses appealed to Mrs. Logan o.
lSwope to dismiss DR.. Hyde as the fam
lilly physician, else they would leave the
house. The witness said that follow
| ing the demand of the nurses DR.. Hyde
/ -
services and DR.. G. 7. Twyman then
began to treat the family patients.
Mr.. Paxton told how Miss Houle-
han, one of the nurses, put on her hat
and cap and left the home. Before go
ling, however she said to Mrs. Swope:
l"People are being murdered in this
house. /"
Then MIR. Paxton related the dra-
matte departure of DR.. and Mrs. Hyde
from the Swope home the wife indig-
nant at the charges that had been
made against her husband.
1T was on this day. Mr.. Paxton
said, "that for the first time poison
Twas mentioned in connection with
Colonel Swope's death. 1t was on this
IudJ lO1 IAC nlOb blIlS L WdS await VI
the awful story of the nurses and
their suspicious. 1t was on this day
that the open breach occurred be-
Tween Frances Swope Hyde, good,
faithful woman who had charge of the
home during the trying siege of illness,
land her mother Mrs Swope."
DR.. Twyman told me that evening of
aofioD of ba on1 bo enc.
Ipicions of Mrs. Swope.
81 was thunderstruek. l could not
believe it at first but DR.. Twyman went
from one popularity to another as the
nurses had related them to him.
''Then for the first time did 1 hear
Miss Kellar's statement of the giving
of the capsule to Colonel Swope and
how he had gone into commissions i'm
mediately after. But L still believed
DIR. Hyde innocent" Mr.. Paxton
added, "and when they were leaving
the Swope home under that awful
charge that night, shook DR.. Hyde $
hand to show Mrs. Swope that I did
not believe her suspicious could be
true"
"By the way, do you mean that Mrs
Hyde left under cloud of suspicion
tool" Frank Walsh interrupted.
FNoi MOI" Mr.. Paxton almost
shouted. "She is a sweet pure, girl
and she had been doing her duty, help
ing take care of her sisters in their
Illness
"Then why didn t you ask her about
conditions in the home during the i'll
nessi Why didn't you ask her to ex-
plain the queer things which you said
made up those awful charges before
you accepted them as the truth9"
the persistent Mr.. Walsh asked.
Mr.. Paxton declined to answer.