The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-18
HYDE WILL GO ON TRIAL.
FOR LIFE THIS MORNING
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and had them at his home. This point is
established DIR. Hyde was in attend
ance at the death beds of Moss Hunton
and the old colonel. although he was
not the regular attending physician.
By the will of the eccentric old mil
lionaire the bulk of his fortune was left
to his nieces and nephews, of which
Mrs. Hyde was one. If one of them
died that ones share of the estate re-
verified to the other residuary legatees.
This, the prosecution will hold, fur
nished the motive for the crimes with
which DIR. Hyde stands charged.
\ During the past week the work of
impaneling a jury in the most noted
criminal trial in the history of the
state of Missouri has been in progress.
During all of this time Mrs. Logan o.
Swope has sat within arms reach of
her daughter. Mrs Bennett Clark Hyde.
Not glance has the mother cast In
the direction of her daughter. Not one
look at her mother has the daughter
vouchsafed. DR.. Hyde has no more
loyal supporter and no firpIer believer
In his innocence than his wife. He has
no more bitter enemy and no one whose
hatred Is more openly expressed than
the mother of his wife.
Margaret Swope, Lucy Swope, Sarah
Swope, Mrs. Hyde's sisters, have also
been in the court But they, too, have
of recognition and with never a word
o. greeting.
, But sisters of the accused physician
have been in court; they have supported
and cheered his brave little wife during
all of the vexatious hours that counsel
for the state and the defense were wrang-
ling over the men who are to sit in judg-
ment on the doctor. The two family
groups clustered about the attorneys ta-
BILE and yet so openly hostile to one an
other have been one of the not least in
teresting features of the long prelimi-
nary.
Great Legal Battle
The trial will be battle of legal giants.
Defending DR.. Hyde Is Frank p. Walsh.
Assisting Prosecuting Attorney Virgil
Ccnkling is James A. Reed. Walsh and
Reed are old-time legal adversaries. They
are admittedly the two brightest and
best attorneys in the state OF Missouri
today. Reed is an ayowed candidate for
a seat in the United States Senate and
the result of the Hyde trial will have
an important bearing on his candidacy.
Reed is going to fight hard for the adj
mission of testimony that bears in the
slightest degree on the whole Swope mys-
terry. Walsh, on the other hand, will
fight against the admission of testimony
that is not wholly relevant. Legal clashes
have been frequent in the week of the
trial that has just passed; they will In
crease in number and in intensity as the
trial proceeds.
Prosecutor Conkling and Assisting At
torney Reed will present to the court
the case they have worked up against DR..
HYDE Their evidence is cireumstantial
bur they insist that it is conclusive. And
while during the months that the Swope-
Hyde case has occupied the attention of
the public there have been books upon
books printed about the alleged crimes
and about all connected-no matter in
how remote degree with the Swope
or the Hyde families-there is feeling
in the minds of many that the half has
nor been told Residents of Kansas City
and of Independence, in which town Col
onel Swope lived, who have eagerly de-
youred every word that has been spoken
Or written about the mystery, are Of
the opinion that the prosecution has not
shown its hand; that 1t has a few cards
M its sleeve and that these cards will
be disclosed on Monday in the opening
addresses, which will outline the case
from the states point of view.
The defense? Not word has come
from the lips OF DR.. Hyde or his counsel
concerning the line of defense, General
denialss have been all that have been
spoken in behalf of the accused ply
sicia an -..a., s5.. ~. ...tl
Attorney Walsh will present his clients
side of the case on Monday. In all proba-
bility And with these two legal giants
stripped for the fray and entered in the
n.-s,la =, 7riserrris greatest case, is 1t
any wonder that almost the entire state
~ Ioo.ilas for ward with great expecta-
tons to the words that will fall from
~, iis- ~ tl,a at4arneys?
DIR. c. i. Twyman, the Swope family
~ an, VINO attended both Colonel
Swope and Moss Hunton In their last