New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-12
THE SWOPE JURY
Hyde Prosecution 17caits Re
suit of Investigation.

Kansas City. Mo. Feb. 1.-THE grand
Jury summoned to-day to investigate the
Swope mystery will begin the examination
OF witnesses tomorrow. 1t is expected
that the jury will be in session about ten
days
If an indictment is returned against any
one in connection with the deaths the case
against DIR. B. c. HYDE now pending in the
court of Justice w. l.. Loar. in Independ-
ence, will be dismissed. This case is set
for hearing on February II, but it will
be continued from time to time until the
grand jury completes its investigation, pro-
vided the inquiry is not disposed of be
fore the case is called for the first time.
The grand jury summoned to-day by or
der of Judge Ralph S. Latshaw consists OF
prominent men One of them is Jay H
Nen. former Mayor of Kansas City and
NJ nresent the owner of The Drovers
Telegraph
The Jurors are as follows: T. J. Green.
Kansas City, real estate dealer: F. D.
SprueI Dallas farmer: Walter Older, In
dependence real estate dealer: John H
Moody, Independence, real estate, dealer
James G.. Burnley. Buckner, banker; r. +.
Montgomery, Blue Springs banker; VIII
lam Warren Grain Valley, hardware mer-
chant; Julian Jackson, Lone Jack farmer
Robert Howard, Lees Summit. farmer
William Taylor Kansas City. manager or
= drvgoods company: Jay II. Neff. Kansas
CITY. and H. c. Gardner, Kansas City,
buyer for a wholesale grocery company.
When the grand jury is dismissed the en-
tire Swope affair will have been fully IN
vestigated. The death Of Colonel 1hofnaS
II. Swope will receive first attention at the
hands of the jurors, who Will then take UP
the death of Chrisman Swope-
DR.. HYDE was about the city as usual to-
dav. seemingly unperturbed after his ar
rest Yesterday on the charge of numbering
his vife's uncle. He says he Is glad a
grand jury has been called, for he believes
the more the case is left to the investigation
Of dfsinterested persons and the more pub
1icty II receives the sooner he will he
cleared of suspicion. DR.. Hyde will keep
his own counsel, however, until he is placed
on trial
we are not ready 10 talk yet said
Frank 2 Walsh. the physicians attorney.
today "Dr Hyde will not tell his story
until he tells it 10 the jury that tries him
for his life. if ever he is tried Then he
will explain everything and knock the props
out from under all the charges
Nothing was accomplished to-day by at
tornevs who planned to take the deposition
of John G. Paxton in a SANDER suit for
100000 that DR.. Hyde has brought against
him. When Nh Paxton was called ne was
engaged 4 a physicians office and was IN
able TO meet the attorneys.
The appraisement of the Svope estate to
day showed its total value TO be about So
500 600. The University of Missouri will
receive per cent, or $1,000, Of this
amount as inheritance tax.
It is asserted that the grand jury Will
make an especially searching inquiry into
Chrisman Swope's death. Again II will be
a nurse who will give the important testi-
mony.
in the hands of the Swope attorneys Is
Houlehan. This statement is as dramatic
as the story related by Miss Pearl Kellar
on the witness stand. 1t tells of her being
summoned TO the SWOpe home 10 care for
Chrisman SWope. who was stricken with
typhoid The nurse describes infinitely the
symptoms. those OF the straight typhoid
patient, the high fever, the irregular pulse.
Then it tells Of the commissions in which
Chrisman Swope died. It was about $50
o'clock Sunday afternoon, the nurse says
In her affidavit, that she was told capsule
utes later followed the Convulsions. almost
the same as those in the case OF Colonel
SwOpe. The nurse tells Of the injection of
a one-fOrtieth grain of stryChnine and later
Of the use of nitro-gIycerine injection.
All this the grand jury Will hear when It
meets 20 inquire into the Swope mystery.