The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-13


SWopes death, also ror the first time
was made aware OF the awful story
ot the nursea and their suspicious. IL
vase II this day that tho open breach
occurred between Frances Swopo-
liyde, good, faithful woman. who had
eAhrse OF the home during the trying
aieBe of the Illness and her mother.
Mrs. swope
IL was about 0 o'clock on tho night
or mat signincant day when first
hearo OF the awful suspicion and
'a. ~. was going down the street
Mnn my wife. when DIR. Twyman came
up pel'lhu and asked to see me. said
-, come right over to your office as
soon as I take Mrs. Paxton home,
but ne replied, No, I must sec you
at once And he asked Mrs. pax,on
to go home with his driver. 40 that
could talk with him abou, the swopa
Illness. Then he told mo OF tho an.
ton OF the nurses and the suanl,,ons
of Mrs SWope
u was thunderstruck. hit aauarolv
between the eyes, when he told me o.
the nurses going in body to Mrs
swopc and telling her that her chill.
dren were being murdered, and tha.
they would not stay in tho house any
longer. could not believe 1t at first,
but Or. Twytnan went from one me-
culiar circumstance to another as the
nurses had related them to him.
DIR. Twyman told me OF the con-
Vulslons that Margaret Swope had that
DAY. And all the nurses said her con-
Vuisions were exactly similar to those
In which Chrisrnan Sw pc had died. He
told me that Miss Houlehan was an
eyewitness to tho convulsions OF
Chrisman Swope and knew of the
giving OF the capsule to him. That
afternoon she had put on her coat
and hat and left the home, refusing,
she said. to stay where people were
being murdered.'
Then for the first time did, hear
MISE kellar'e statement OF the giving
Of the capsule to Colonel Swope and
how he had gone into convulsions I'M
mcdiately after It. My talk with DR..
rwyman must have lasted nearly a.
half hour. as he related the whole of
the awful story the nurses had told
him.
Thought Him Innocent.
But ] still believed Dr.. Hyde inno-
cent" Mr.. Paxton said. "and when
they were leaving the swope home
under that awful charge then shook
DR.. Hyde's hand to show Mrs. swope
that did not believe her suspicious
could be true"
BY them do you mean that Mrs.
Hyde left under cloud of suspicion.
too?" Frank Walsh Interrupted.
NO" Mr.. Paxton almost shouted
She Is q sweet, pure girl. and she
had been doing her duty. helping take
care OF her sisters in their illness"
Then why didn't you ask her about
The conditions in the home during the
Illness? Why didn't you ask her to
explain the queer things which you
said made UP those awful charges. be-
fore you accepted them as truth?" the
persistent Mr. Walsh asked
Mr. Paxton declined to answer And
so the day went on in continuous
legal wTangling over the competency
OF the evidence. Mr.. Walsh asked Mr..
Paxton about every statement he had
made In the letter TO Stuart Fleming.
on which he is now being sued for
siander. trying to find out where he
obtained the information, and to almost
every question Mr.. Paxton would re-
ply: Il cannot remember just who
told me. I have Rad so many converse
tions since DR.. Twyman first told me of
the suspicious"
The grand jury that is to hear of the
deaths of Thomas II. Swope and Chris
man Swope convened at $3.50 O'Clock
this afternoon, organized and is ready
To get down to business Monday II
was instructed to investigate the
Swope cases only.
Nothing VIII be left untouched
which Will throw any light ON the
cause of the spread OF typhoid fever
among the members OF the Swopc fam
lily and the contributing causes of the
deaths. The chemists who made the
analysis in Chicago will submit their
reports to the grand Jury, and at least
one Of them will be present to testify,