The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-11
DEFENSE RESTS.
The State Calls More Than a
Dozen Witnesses
In RebuttaI i'm the Trial Of DIR,
Hyde for Murder.
PLANS FOR FUTURE.
The Defendent Expresses Conf
dence in Acquittal.
His Cross SS-ExaminatiOn Was
Long and Severe.

| Kansas City Mo. May 11.-More than
a dozen witnesses appeared at the Grim
inaI court building today to give re-
buttaI testimony for the state in the
trial Of DR.. B. C. Hyde for murder
Every nurse that gave direct test1-
u1ony for the prosecution was present
to again take the stand. In the stories
Of DR.. and Mrs Hyde there were fire.
quent contradictions of the nurses mar
ratives. Prosecutor ConkItng is deter
mined that these shall not go unchal-
lenged-
The state does not know now Just how
long II will take to present its rebut-
tai testimony. The general impression
Is that the rebuttaI testimony, drSU-
nGents Of counsel and the judges in
structious will be completed by Satur-
day.
Dr. Hyde is confident he is to be
freed And with this end in view, he
is making plans for the future
I'm going to continue to practice
medicine right mere in Kansas City,
he said, in discussing his case. I'll
show the people am not as bad as
lave been painted
/ DR.. Hyde was on the witness stand
almost the entire day yesterday and
with the close of his examination the
defense rested
Every phase OF the Swope case was
gone into in the physicians exauina-
| ton
I won't take the stand unless I can
tell it all he told his attorneys
Tuesday Afternoon Session
Much cooler than he was when he
left the stand at noon after a long and
tedious examination by Prosecutor
4 ConkLng. DR.. Hyde appeared in court
AZ the afternoon session
He did not wait to be called to the
witness chair, but quickly seated him
self in it before the jury was brought
IN. Mr.. ConkIfng resumed his iuterro
cation. dwelling on the physician $
story that he planned to begin the study
OF bacterioIOgy in 1905
Dr.. Hyde said he made several ex-
per1ments with the germs he obtained
from DR.. Stewart
While Mr. Conkling was examining
Dr. H. ie. the witness came near let
ting the jury know he is confined IN
jail
I can't state just now as" began
the physician Then he ceased speak
ing. knitted his brow and appeared to
be striving for an answer that would
veil the secret of his Imprisonment 7
know how many germs were in my Of
fee when T. was robbed" finally ex-
| planned the witness, but I can't say
how many are there now
Prosecutor Conkling produced the
culture tube Dr. Stewart is said to have
taken from DR.. Hyde's office and asked
the physician how many tests he had
made with germs from that tube
One if that is the tube taken an
swered the witness
Enough for 500 Tests.
But there are enough germs in this
tube to make 500 tests, believe" sug-
gested the prosecutor
There might be enough for one or
more"
The physician said he had disturbed
some of the germs in every typhoid
tube he got from DIT. Stewart
Never said the witness, did he make
any experiment with the diphtheria
germs. These germs, DR. Stewart had
! testified. had been disturbed when he
; found them in Dr. Hyde's office
: Stress was laid by the prosecutor
upon the fact that DR.. Hyde made but
a few experiments yet he purchased
the culture tubes in large quantities
Aske to explain why he bought so
many tubes. the physician said he
could vouchsafe no explanation except
that he wanted enough OF them to last
him for two or three years
Mr.. ConkIing called attention 20
: typhoid breaking out in the Swope
house within d few days after his pur-
chase of some of the culture tubes
.-Oh. there was an earthquake in the
! West Indies about that time, too" an
: swered DR. Hyde
'Dr- HYDE, you are admonished to
answer the questions Of the prose-
cutor" said Judge Latshaw sharply
when you and DR.. Perkins and DR.
! Hall went to the Swope residence to
look for the source Of the epidemic
why didn't you mention you had been
making experiments with typhoid
rms 81 asked Mr.. Conkling.
There was no chance for me to COM
raunicate any of the germs TO that
household There was no connection
2 b-tween the germs in my office and
the epidemic in the Swope residence,
DR.. Hyde replied
The witness declared he had no rec7l-
lection of Hugo BeekIein sending for
him to coY1e to his store and get
! cyanide in person
) Testimony in RebuttaI-
c. H Briggs, a chemist of Detroit,
: Mich was the states first witness to-
} day. II the quinine employed in the
: manufacture Of iron. strychuine and
ouinine an elixir taken by Col
= Thomas H Swope. said the witness.
: there was less than one per cent OF OF
I impurities The defense attempted to
prove on its direct testimony that a
+ large amount Of impurities was prob
! abIy in the strychuine taken from the
liver Of Colonel Swope, due TO the
2 millionaire having used the qufnIne
/ remedy.
/ prof. Paul Sehweitzer of the Uni
versity of Missouri testified that II
= would be impossible for hydrocyandic
z acid TO be formed by the minghug OF
4 foruaIdehyde and ammonia IN a dead
/ body. Under no less than 500 degrees
2 of heat would such 4 formation take
2 place he said On cross examination,
: the professor insisted that ammonia
formed no part Of a human body
Upon being recalled TO the stand,
lSteIla SWope told of a mysterious cap
c suIe she said DR.. HYDE handed her Oh
= the night OF December 10.
: "Ou December 10, the night my sis
: ter Sarah was taken i'll. DR. HYDE gave
: me q capsule and asked me to hand
: Il to Miss Gordon. q nurse. and tell
c her to give it to Sarah I handed II
{ 70 the nurse
The nurse Miss Elizabeth Gordon