Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-28
NURSE TEsTiFiEs THAT DR.. HYDE
iNocULATE0 STELLA swoPE
WITH TYPHOID.
DEFENSE SPRINGS A SURPRISE
Have Gained Possession Of Grand Judy
Testimony Which Shows HaInes
Said No Cyanide Was
Found.

find strychnin in the ejecta from the
stomach of Miss Margaret Swope until
told by John G. Paxton whose hired
man. he was, that 1t was expected by
him, was one OF the charges made b.
Frank Walsh, chief OF counsel for DR..
Hyde In the opening statement to the
jury which will try the physician on q
charge Of numbering Thomas II.
Swope.
The address vas bristling with SEN
sational accusations directed against
everyone associated with the prosecu.
ton and was a frank attempt at vindi.
eating DR.. Hyde in the minds OF the
horde Of courtroom spectators as we'll
as in starting his case Off auspiciously
with the jury.
Only Medical Attendant a Negro.
Mr.. Walsh declared that Lucy Lee
SwOpe had been taken i'll in Paris and
had been doctored there; that the
Swope family, in spite of its wealth,
employed no medical attention for its
sick members except that given by
Chasing Hatred Chase Jordan, "a
negro from Fort Scott, posing as a
South American"
Kansas city, April 2l.--The jury in
the trial Of Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde
Is 10 hear the whole story: The deaths
Of Moss IIunton and Chrisman Swope
and the events connected with the ~.
phoid epidemic in the Swope family.
Nothing is to be held back. Judge
the jury was called into the courtroom
and Miss Pearl Kellar, Col. Swope's
nurse, resumed her testimony where
it had been interrupted at i:l5 o'clock
the day before,
The courts decision was a grave dis
appointment 10 the counsel for DR..
Hyde. They had tried unsuccessfully,
in hours Of argument, to convince the
court that while the defendant was be.
ing tried for the murder of Col. Swope
no testimony should be admitted
touching upon the death OF either Col.
Moss lIunton or Chrisman Swope, or
upon the typhoid incidents.
A Precedent in MoIineaux Case.
Judge I.atshaw based his decision
chiefly upon the Molineaux case in
New York and the Bailey and Sassman
cases in this state. He admitted from
the bench that the books held no East
parallel to the Hyde case, but declare,
he believed the Molineaux case, in
which n crime was used to show an.
other. was a proper precedent.
A Startling Disclosure.
A startling disclosure in the Hyde
case came Immediately after the open
ing of the afternoon session of the
court. The court announced that all
the notes OF the grand jury that in.
dicted Hyde had been lost. Judge La.
shaw asked Frank =. Walsh, chief
counsel for DR.. Hyde. IL he knew any.
thing about the lost notes:
Fl refuse to answer" Walsh retorted.
Bring in the jury" the court then
ordered angrily.
Walsh then ~endeavored 10 placate
the Judges anger.
The notes are In my possession" ne
declared, "but they are the properly
of my client and I refuse to give them
up"
The prosecutors Office oxp'ained
that Ruby d. Garrett, an assistant
prosecutor, lost the notes In going Ia
his home. They were found by a negro
woman who advertised in The Sta
th,t ,ho bod snmo noporo IN tho II,Ic
case.
The and Walsh were iter
wards in telephone communication
Walsh got the papers.
Have Access to Grand Jury Notes.
The defense, stubborn, refused &c
surrender the papers until Judge Lat
shaw promised them access to The
testimony at all times hereafter, anC
then Mr.. Walsh walked calmly ava,
to where they lay in the safe deposi
boH.
Miss Kellar resumed her place OIL
the witness stand after the jury hat
been brought into the court room.
Miss Kellar was asked what hap
Pened after DR.. Hyde arrived at tn,
side OF Moss Hunton on the night o
October /. and the nurse told the jur!
OF the suggestion Of Or. Hyde tina
bleeding be resorted 10,
She then told how DR.. Twyman oh
iected 20 the quantity OF blood DR.
Hyde was taking from the sick MAJ
but that he refused to close the wount
until he had taken " quarts of blood
Mr.. IIunton died almost Immediate,
after the wound was closed