The Mena weekly star., 1910-04-21
HEARD WHOLE STORY
OBJECTIONS OF DR. HYDE'S AT. ToRNEYS TO STATES OPEN
 ING STATEMENT ovERRUIED.
A STRONG CHAIN .OF EVIDENCE
Lawyers for the Prosecution Gave ir Detail to the Jury the Story of the Series of Tragedies in the Swops Family.


 Clark Hyde's counsel after every known resource to prevent it had been exhausted. the whole story of the Swope tragedy was unfolded to the jury.
 Under the courts ruling everything which the state promises to substan- tate as collateral issue connected with the death of Colonel Swope; ev. cry circumstance subsequent to his death which the state believes will convince the jury that Doctor Hyde formed a plot to exterminate the en- tire Swope family; the typhoid ept demic; every suspicion of the months since Colonel Swope fell ill-the jury heard it all.
 The states counsel began with the death Of Moss Hunton of apoplexy. Doctor Hyde's lawyers objected, but the court oyerruled them and the jury heard how. the defendant had bled Colonel Swope's cousin until Dr. G. T. Twyman and Mrs. Hyde remonstrated with him.
 Gentlemen" the attorney said. al. most in a whisper, Moss Hunton was to be an executor of Colonel Swope's estate. He was in the way. Moss Hunt5n was bIed to death"
 The Court Room Crowded.
 It was struggle of wits for the first hour and half. a struggle for which both sides had gone to court prepared. Stacks of law books with decisions marked ready for reference covered the tables. After maze of technical objections had been disposed of and the jury sworn in the first actual effort to protect Doctor Hyde was made in the effort to exclude from the trial every mention of mat ters not dIrectly--as the defense be lieved--connected with the death of Colonel Swope.
 An air of expectancy seemed to per wade the little semi-circle at the end of the press table where Doctor Hyde sat with Mrs. Hyde and several friends. Mrs. Swope and her allies. a few feet distant. leaned forward. The audience. crowding the room wherever man might find space to stand, lis tened eagerly.
 To Hear All Details.
 The state will refer to nothing" " the court admonished, which 1t does not expect to prove was immediately connected with the death of Thomas Swope
 That the states counsel said, "is exactly what we shall do. Prove that every act and every part of the plot which we are to describe was part of the defendants general plan to exter. minate the entire Swope family
 Hyde Bought Cyanide.
 The story was unfolded slowly and not with any particularly telling em phasis, but the jury seemed to miss nc word. The states counsel told how Doctor Hyde bought cyanide of DO tassium in the drug store of Hugo Brecklein in the old Rialto building how this poison and strychnine, mixed formed q mass similar n color to Q digestive capsule often prescribed b, physicians. The state tried to intro duce a little pink box and blaci box containing capsules, but the de fense objected. There could be nt displays, the judge said. until the ac tual testimony began.
 It was a morning of objections anC exceptions, of arguments and especial ly of little journeys for the jury ou of the room and back again over 1 route that, doubtless. It will trave many times in the next three weeks Hyde StlII Smiling.
 As for the defendant he enteres gravely enough. but soon sat smilini about him. Mrs. Hyde's face was sol emn. Her friends talked to her an' she replied to them. but as the hour passed and the state marshalled it facts or supposed facts against he husband she sat, chin in hand, gazinI almost intensely at the meh in tn box who are to form their verdic from what they hear.
 It was plain that she realized tn import of every word Occasional she shook her head as if denying fl her own mind some suspicion fror which the state had seen fit to COT struct q guilty plot