The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-05-17
Physician Declared BY Jury
to Have Murdered
Col. Swope.
~ HAVE NOT LOST HOPE" SAID
HYDE AS HE WAS LED AWAY
TO CELL-MRS. HYDE CREATES
A SCENE IN COURT ROOM AS
( THE VERDICT is READ-cASE
WILL BE APPEALED TO HIGHER
TRIBUNAL.
BY Associated Press.

Kansas City, May 16.-Dr. B. C.
Hyde was found guilty at 1923 o'clock
today of numbering Colonel Thomas
II. Swope. His punishment was fixed
at life Imprisonment.
"Oh! Clark" cried Mrs. Hyde when
the verdict was read by Judge Lat
shaw.
She threw her arms about his neck
and wept silently. Then she patted
her husband on the cheek.
DR.. Hyde sat motionless. He look
ed firmly at Judge Latshaw while 1.-The
verdict was being received AS the
words Imprisonment in the state
penitentiary during his natural life'
were pronounced, he gazed steadily at
The floor.
Don't worry, dearie," he said to his
wife as she clasped him in her arms.
Mrs. E. N. Hopkins and Miss Laura
Hyde, sisters of the physician, tried to
comfort Mrs. Hyde.
I'VE shall hope for the best" they
said. I'VE don't understand this ver-
dict. Clark is innocent"
Il have not lost hope" declared DR..
Hyde.
BACK TO HIS CELL.
Within ten minutes after the verdict
had been returned the doctor was on
his way to his cell. Mrs. Hyde re-
mained in the court room for some
time.
Neither Mrs. Logan o. swope nor
any OF her children, except Mrs. Hyde,
was In the room when the jury re-
ported.
The physician will be sentenced in
open court by Judge Latshaw either
Thursday or Friday. The law allows
the defense four days in which to file
a motion for new trial and Dr.
Hyde's counsel announce that a new
trial will be requested
Treat that prisoner the same as
any other" Judge Latshaw ordered
County Marshal Joel D. Mayes. "Give
him few privileges and no luxuries."
DR.. Hyde will be allowed to send
out for his meals, a privilege common
to all prisoners.
1t was reported this morning that
one juror had vowed he would "vote
for acquittal until l die of old age"
When DR.. Hyde appeared in the
court room to hear the verdict, the
overcoat he had worn for two days, as
tf he were ready to go home, was alb
sent.
In face of discouraging prospects,
even before the jury came in, Mrs
Hyde tried to be brave.
Il think 1t will be all right" she
said TO her husband, and smiled.
An hour after the verdict was
reached, Mrs. Hyde was able to go to
her home. Before leaving she said:
TO APPEAL CASE.
Il am now over the first shock and
am feeling strong. l shall take imme-
hiate steps to make a motion for a
new trial. Failing in this, shall ar
range for an appeal. The case will be
reversed in the supreme court, l am
confident, because Clark is innocent
and therefore it cannot be otherwise"
Frank p. Walsh, the leading coun-
Eel for Dr. Hyde, said:
The case will be appealed and we
have every confidence in its final out
come"
When news of the conviction was
forwarded by telephone to Mrs. Swope
In Independence, she shrieked and
dropped the receiver. She refused to
make statement. Court attaches be-
lieve the supreme court will be unable
to reach DIR. Hyde's case for at least
a year, on account of the crowded
docket. The law of Missouri prohibits
the courts from admitting a convicted
murderer to bail. /
I'VE positively decided not to dis
cuss our deliberations" Frank Clay
pool, the foreman of the jury, said.
"Of course We argued heatedly, but
there was no friction
Juror Johnson. of Sibley, Mo, who
was said to have been in the fight de- |
MED emphaticall ythat there had been
one.
"You felt justified, did you?" he was
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