Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-17
HYDE TO GET LIFE
TERM; CONVICTED
SELF, SAYS JUROR
w. C. Crone, Who Held Out Long
Time, Tells Why He Fin
ally Voted Guilty
PHYSICIAN REMAINS STOICAL
Doctor Hears Fate Unmoved and
Expresses Confidence He Will
Be Granted a New Trial
IAsseciated Pressl

T/ ANSAS CITY, May 16-Dr. B.
IA Clark Hyde, whom jury today
"A. found guilty of numbering Col.
Thomas H. Swope and sentenced to
life imprisonment this morning, owes
his conviction to his own testimony
on the witness stand, says w. c..
Crone, a juror.
Crone is, in reality, the man who de-
cided the physicians fate. Until Sum-
day night Crone and S. r. Johnson, a
farmer from Sibley, Mo, held out for
acquittal against the rest of the jury.
Remembering DR.. Hyde's demeanor
on the stand, Mr.. Crone finally decided
the accused man was guilty and voted
for conviction. He then convinced Mr..
Johnson, making the verdict unani-
nous.
DIR Hyde was his own worst enemy
in the trial. said Mr.. Crone tonight.
His own testimony convicted him.
when DR.. Hyde said he had bought
cyanide for ten years and yet could
not remember where he bought it he
damned himself as a witness. If he
had not testified as he did 1 think he
would not be in his present position.
"At first 1 believed Hyde innocent,
and until Sunday night I voted to ac-
quit him. Then I recalled his testi-
mony about his cyanide purchases and
L u6cluSu ne WIS guilty. LOlu MIL
Johnson I had changed my vote and
1 talked with him about my decision"
JURORS son IN PRISON
A strange feature of Juror Crone's
action Is that his son, Albert, was re-
Gently sentenced to eighteen years in
the penitentiary for numbering Bertha
Bowler, his sweetheart.
Tonight all the participants in the
great murder case are as calm as they
have been at any time since the trial
started. The return of the verdict was
marked by an absence of dramatic
| Mrs. Hyde cried a little when she
heard the verdict in the court room.
DR.. Hyde did not change his usual
stoical expression.
Mrs. Logan o. Swope was unnerved
when at her home in independence she
heard the outcome.
my home is still open to my daugh-
ter" she said. ''I feel sorry for her."
"If 1 had not been satisfied I was
doing the right thing" she said, 81
never would have started this prose-
cutioin of my son-in-law.
"I am convinced that justice has been
given to the defendant. OF course 1t
does not behoove me to say whether
l wanted to see linn hanged.
"As for a reconciliation with my
daughter, l stand now where 1 have
always stood. The doors of my house.
and my arms and heart are open to
her whenever she wants to come home.
My. mother love for her has never
cooled. l have thought she was mis-
| taken, but never that she was other
than the sweet, innocent girl she isl
MRS. HYDE NOT GOING BACK
But Mrs. Hyde is not going back to
her mother. She is still loyal to her
husband, and confidently believes the
supreme court will free him.
Hyde takes his Imprisonment coolly.
He was asleep today soon after the
believe the case will be remanded for
retrial when it reaches the supreme
court. The physician probably will be
sentenced Saturday
BY law he is not admissible to bail.
| It is discretionary with Judge Latshaw
whether DR.. Hyde be sent to prison or
held at the county Jail pending the
consideration of his case by the su-
preme court.
John G. Paxton, the executor of the
Swope estate, who with Mrs. Swope
has taken the lead in the prosecution,
declined absolutely to talk of the YER
| dict.
Following the first investigation of
the Swope case. Mr.. Paxton sent
letter to Mr.. Fleming. a co-executor
| in Kentucky, describing the scenes at
the Swope home during the illness of
the various members. Soon thereafter
Frank P. Walsh, attorney for DR..
Hyde, instituted suit for libel against
Mr.. Paxton, asking for 100000 dam
ages The trial of the libel suit was
postponed until the murder trial of DR..
Hyde was begun.