The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-04-29
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A COFF|N
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DR.. Hyde Anticipated
the Death of Col.
Swope

hduodS Cltys MO, ApTll LS.-Delay
became imminent in the Hyde muir
der trial whom, at noon today. Will
liam Beebc, juror, was called to
the bedside of his dying wife. Re
ports from the local hospital In which
she Is confined. were that she would
probably live but few hours.
DR.. Hyde refused to enter the cause
OF ChrIsman Swope's death in the
certificate he signed. testified Henry
j. OFT. an undertaken. today Mr.. OFT
said the physician told him to get DR..
G. Twyman, who also attended Mr..
Swope. TO Nil out the blank This
was not done. and the certificate is
still Incomplete
DR.. Hyde spoke to r. B Mitchell.
an undertaken. day before Colonel
Swope died. about getting coffin for
him. testified Mr.. Mitchell today. The
undertaken said Mrs. HYDE told him
her husband had said Col Swope could
not live.
The morning session of court was
devoted largely TO the testimony Of
undertakeTS. cemetery employees and
persons who guarded the bodies of
Colonel and Chrisman Swope and
james Moss Hunton after their deaths.
Kansas City. April 29.-At the out
set OF the Hyde murder trial this
morning II was expected that the con-
test of medical experts in the case
would be on before the days session
was over
DR.. Ludwig Hektoun, the first sciel-
tist called into the case by Mrs. Lo-
gan O. Swope. and who made an au-
topsy on Col Thomas n Swope'e body.
was summoned from his home In
Chicago Thursday, He was told he
probably would be called as wit
ness today
Announcement was made at the
and Dr. Victor C.. Vaughn. other scien-
lists In the employ Of the prosecution.
would testify before the end OF the
week
Advising Dr. Hyde's attorneys in
the examination of the scientists are
half a dozen chemists and toxlcol-
ogIsts.
Dir. f. Smith of New York is chief
Of the defcnse's medical corps. He
has been here fol% several weeks
making tests and comforting with the
defense
The defense's efforts will be d.
rected mainly to discredt testi.
mony The sallant questions ask
ed yeniremen from which the jury was
selected was DO you believe eX-
pert medical testimony
There are several men on the jury
who said they did not
r. B Mitchell. an undertaken. who
cared for the bodies of Col. Swope
and James Moss Hunton, was the
first witness called today.
While he was at the Swope house
preparing for burial the body of Mr
Hunton, day before the death of
Col. Swope, said Mr.. Mitchell, he met
Mrs. Hyde and she spoke about get
ting casket for the millionaire.
She told me DR.. Hyde said Colonel
Swope could not live he testified.
Judge Latshaw ordered this alleged
conversation stricken out
Upon taking the body of Col.
Swope from vault in Forest Hill
cemetery on January 18th, testified
the undertaken, the casket was in
good shape and the corpse had not
been disturbed. On cross-examination
he said the screws were not set as
tightly as he had expected them to
be- He assumed they had settled
Mr.. Mitchell said he saw red spots
on the limbs of Col Swope. The
state contends they are signs OF cyan.
ide poisoning,
Although DR.. Hyde signed the death
certificate of Chrisman Swope with
the names "Twyman and Hyde" he
did not enter the cause of death, tes-
titled Henry ]. OFT, an undertaken
"Dr. Hyde also marked out line
reading Hyde treated the case, and
made it We treated the case
Mr.. OFT said he sent the certificate
to DR. Twyman's office, but the ply
sioian was not there.
The cause of death blank has
never been filled in.
"He told me Dr., Twyman treated
the cnse and | should take the GER
tiflcate to him and have MIN give the
cause of DEATH" said Mr. OFT
Thomas Ravenscamp aud Ira W.
McPheters, policemen, and w, +.
Stein and F. l.. Nichols. uDdeftakers.
testified the body of Col. Swope was
not disturbed while it lay in the Kan
sas City public library for two days.