Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
HYDE JURY TO WITNESS EFFECTS
OF POISON IN DEADLY DOSES
ON DUMB ANIMALS.
STATE TO USE FROGS,
DEFENSE HAS CANINE SQUAD
Nurse Keller Resumes Her Story of
Colonel swope's Last Ilness-Excit-
ing Scene in Court When 1t Deveio ps
That Defense Has Possession of
States Evidence. =

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frogs are expected to play an import
ant part in the conviction or clearing
of Dr. Hyde of a charge of murder
The state announced its intention OF
demonstrating the action of strych-
nine by poisoning a live frog with the
drug before the eyes Of the jury. To-
x1cologists employed by Hyde are
maintaing a poison squad" of six dogs
for the purpose of studying the es-
fects of strychnine. Some of the dogs
VIII be permitted to die, the others will
be killed and the organs will be used
by defense in presenting the case to
the jury.
Miss Pearl Keller. the nurse, was re-
called to the stand today. and again
took up her story OF the illness of
Colonel Swope.
State Scores Again.
The insistance of Hyde that Miss
Keller complete her testimony caused
Judge Latshaw to permit the witness
to go into details of the typhoid epi-
demic in the Swope home The most
startling feature of the nurses testi-
mony was her assertion that the con-
yulsion suffered by Margaret SWope
Dec Is was very similar to the attack
that preceded SWope's death. The state
charges that on this day Hyde poisoned
Margaret Swope.
Defense Gets States Evidence.
In stormy court scene, in which
many lawyers addressed the court and
unfair play among themselves, the
hnnd nf ~ Jv,1a oil,
voked, and attorneys for the defense
attempt impeachment Of state wit
nesses in the Hyde murder trial late
yesterday afternoon.
And the trouble all arose over an at
tache of Proecutor Conkling's office
losing the grand jury notes on the
Testimony OF DR.. Walter s. Haines, OF
Chicago, and forty-two other state
witnesses. A woman found the notes
and gave them to Frank P. Walsh,
chief counsel for DR.. Hyde.
These notes. according to Mr.. Walsh,
contain statements of DR.. Haines that
no cyanide Of potassium was found in
the viscera of Colonel Swope, and that
not enough poison was found in
Christman Swope's viscera to cause
death.
May Face Perjury Charge.
"1f DR.. Haines swears on the witness
stand to any alleged facts other than
these he will be prosecuted for per-
Jury" said Mr.. Walsh Perjury is a
capital offense in murder case.
Prosecutor Conkling admits this is
the testimony Dr. Haines gave before
the grand jury, but AYERS that later
the chemist found traces Of cyanide of
potassium in both visceres. He will
testify to this, says Mr. Conkling.
In the meantime the papers have
fense is in possession Of carbon copies
Of the evidence. Judge Latshaw is Of
the opinion that he has no power to de-
prive the defense of the copies.
Miss Pearl Keller, who attended Col
onel Swope in his last illness, took the
stand after the upheaval in the court.
She told about. and acted, in part. the
entire scene in the millionaires death
chamber. AS Colonel Swope was un-
able to speak during part Of his I'LL
ness, when attorneys asked Miss Kei-
ler about his actions during this period
she was forced to explain them in pan
tomime.
Court Talks Of Militia.
When Mr.. Walsh returned the papers
Judge Latshaw spoke calmly and at
some length regarding the defense's ac-
ton in Keeping the papers and the
tumultuous scene that resulted. He
bore no feeling against any one on ac-
count of the trouble, he said.
"Let all proof that will tend to show
the guilt or innocence of this defendant
be obtained openly" he said. 'The
court will call out the militia to obtain
such evidence, If necessary"
Just as the jury was filing into the
room the court asked Mr.. Walsh II he
had copies of DIR. Haines' testimony.
Mr.. Walsh said he had.
you might as well have kept the
original, but doubt my authority ito
force you to produce the copies said
the court. But will decide that liter"
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