Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-04-29
Witness Says Sleuths Prevented
Doctor from Escaping.
CYANIDE WAS THROWN IN STREET
Young SwOpe Tells of Finding Deadly
Poison in Capsules.
DEFENDANT BACK BEHIND BARS
Court Declares Bond Forfeited he
cause OF strong Evidence Pro-
duccd at Wednesday,
Hearing.

KANSAS CITY, April 2S--It was with the
hope that Or. Hyde would be purged OF
all suspicion that John c.. Paxton, as a
personal representative of Mrs. Logan o.
Swope, began the investigation OF the
swope tragedies, he testified in the Grim
inal court today,
Il knew the terrible scandal any other
report regarding the inquiry would cause"
he said. When 1 employed DR.. Ludwig
Hektoen to examine the visceras OF Colo
mel Thomas and Chrisman swope I told
him l hoped he would return to me a find
ing of innoncence on the part OF everyone"
Almost the entire afternoon session of
court was devoted by the attorneys to try
ing to prove whether Mr.. Paxton harbored
any malice against Or. Hyde when he
began his investigation. Mr.. Paxton dis
claimed that he did When DR.. Hvde was
ordered from the Swope home on December
49, said Mr.. Paxton he shook hands with
the physician.
DR.. and Mrs, Hyde laughed heartily when
Mr.. Paxton told about his employing de-
tectives to work on the case. Asked why
he employed the sleuths he said:
ITO shadow Or. Hyde and prevent him
from escaping"
Pay for WitnessS
Mr. Paxton and Attorney Walsh eX-
changed warm compliments during tho
| cross-examination of the witness. Mr..
Walsh was insistent upon knowing how
much money the witness got for his work.
Mr.. Paxton charged Mr.. Walsh with cast
| ing aspersons on his honesty
| "As an attorney is paid. so proportion
ately will he work on his case" was Mr.
! Walsh's comment
| Calling attention to the fact that the de-
fense had served subpoena on Mr.. Paxton
ordering him to produce the papers which
passed between him and the scientists who
made tho autopsy % Colonel and Chrisman
swope. Mr.. walsh esked the court TO force
the witness to give them to DR.. Hyde's at
torneys. Judge Latshaw refused the re-
| quest and remarked:
IF any of the states evidence were to
be turned over to the defense in criminal
cases. you might well lock the front
doors of the jails and open the back"
! DR.. Ludwig HeclStoen will come here to-
morrow to testify. DR.. Walter S. Haines
and DR.. Victor c. Vaughn probably will be
witnesses Saturday.
Throws Away Capsules.
Thomas II. Swope, jr., told in the orlm-
inal court today how he found capsules
which Or. Hyde had thrown away
street and recognized the odor they emit
ted as that of cyanide of potassium.
While working in Nevada mine, said
Mr.. Swope he became well acquainted
with the poison and was positive he could
not be mistaken about the peculiar odor
of it, Cyanide, he said smelled like burned
almonds.
Dr. Hyde was about 300 feet from him
when the capsules were thrown away, said
Mr.. Swope. The physician stamped them
into the snow after dropping them, testi-
fled the witness. In far Mr.. Swope
knew, DIR. Hyde did not know his actions
were observed by any one.
| Accompanied by John G. Paxton, said Mr..
Swope, he made second visit to the point
where he had seen DR.. Hyde and they
, found fragments of three capsules All OF
the parts of the capsules were sent to Chi
, cago and chemists announced they found
: trace Of cyanide in them.
After smelling wet cyanide on the hands
, Of Hugo Brecklein, a druggist, in the court
ROOM Miss r. E. Van Nuys said II was
the same drug she smelt on the hand Of
Mr.. swope after he had handled the cap
sules ne picked up in the street.
Mr.. SWope was still on the witness stand
when court adjourned for the noon recess.
all times DR.. Hyde should be brought into
[ and removed from the court room out the
( the presence of the jury in order that the
e jurymen might not know he Is In the
d custody Of the authorities.
!. The action of the court pleased Mrs.
Hyde She smiled when the order was
!, given.
d Hyde Spends Might In Jail.
- out from behind the bars OF his narrow
e cell in the county jail DR.. b. c. Hyde this
10 morning looked upon a scene that was new
- and strange TO him. All about him were
common prisoners In the same tier OF
cells with him were drunkards, thieves and
robbers.
DR.. Hyde was in Jaif once before on last
March 7, but he was only in the hospital
ward then. His room dyas large, roomy
and airy There were four windows in It.
He could walk about and exercise himself
a No one was in the apartment TO bother
A him, That time he did not mind his In
~ generation.
h Today Dr. Hyde made no objection to
h his quarters, but when an attendant cam,
e 10 the physicians cell with a tin plate
Ia covered with bread and a cup OF coffee
Ia the prisoner refused the food and turned
n away with a wan sEile One OF DR.. Hyde,
N friends sent him a breakfast from a hotel
:. jail attaches said the physician slept wei
IN last night lie turned out his light with
n the rest OK the Inmates Of the jail at S:3
D. clock and retired to his cot
D DR.. B c. Hydes Dono Oh 100000 was re
~ voked and the physician was placed il
,e the county jail by the order OF Judg
IN Latshaw at the close Of the criminal cour
q. session last night. This action means DI
M Hyde must remain in prison unta he 3
IN declared innocent by a jury, or Is per
llSS mitted by the court to furnish a new bond
In The action Of the court was due To- IN
N nature Of the evidence presented by IA
IN state against Dr. Hyde Without notify
Ing anyone Of his intention Judge Lat
shaw summoned CourU Marshal loci L