The San Francisco call., 1910-04-26
TRIES TO CONFUSE
Sister ON STAND
Mrs. Hyde Coaches Husbands
Attorneys in Cross Examina=
ton of Margaret Swope

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 25.-Sister
battled against sister in the Hyde mur-
der trial here today From the wit
1t is charged in three counts of an in
dictment Doctor Hyde attempted to
poison, testified for the state. She told
| a straightforward, though somewhat
suited, story of her illness and of
the typhoid epidemic in the Swope
home.
Behind Doctor Hydes attorneys sat
Miss Swope's sister, Mrs. Hyde, direct
ing the fight on her young sisters tes-
tlmony. Attorneys frequently consult
ed her during the cross examination of
the girl.
Seated where she could look directly
into the eyes of the witness, Mrs. Lo-
gan y. Swope sat and watched the duel
of wits. Her sympathy was with the
younger girl-the mothers witness
against disliked son in law. But, al
though her sympathy was not with her
elder daughter Mrs. Swope noticed Mrs.
Hyde's every action. One moment Mrs.
Swope would smile encouragingly on
her younger daughter and the next she
would gaze steadily at Mrs. Hyde, her
face set with an expression of grim de-
termination.
EXPECTED RECOGNITION
1t seemed almost certain when Mar
garet Swope walked down the aisle of
the courtroom today to take the wit
ness chair that she was going to stop
and recognize Mrs. Hyde. She walked
within few feet of Mrs Hyde, faltered
slightly, peered anXiously at her and
passed on. Mrs Hyde, apparently, did
not see her little sister falter. The
spectators did, however and there was
a craning of necks TO get a good look
at the two when they saw each other
for the first time in months.
Testifying was an uphill battle for
Miss Swope, who is still weak from the
effects of typhoid Her nerves are un-
strung. The rapid fire questioning Of
the attorneys disconnected her at times,
but her testimoney, in the main, was
mistaken on cross examination. The
best feature of her testimoney was her
story about how Doctor Hyde came to
her room while the lights were burn
ing low one night and in the semi
darkness gave her a hypodermic. The
physician walked into the room, an
nounced he would give a hypodermic,
rolled up her sleeve and inserted the
needle and left, she said Doctor Twy-
man was in charge of the case at the
time.
This arm has since become sore. The
state contends that the injection was
VI puS GERMS ana IlOL CdHlpIlOl dICQ Jill
as Doctor Hyde claimed.
BATH WATER IN SYRINGE
Miss Elizabeth Gordon, a nurse, tes-
titled late in the afternoon that once
while Doctor Hyde was giving Girls
man Swope a hypodermic he filled his
syringe with water which had been
used in giving the patient a bath
Miss Gordon was summoned TO the
Swope home December by Doctor
Hyde. He told her, she testified, that
there was sickness in the house which
appeared to be typhoid epidemic and
he did not know but that it had its
origin in ciStern on the property.
Chrisman and Margaret Swope and Miss
Nora Bell Dickson, a seamstress, were
i'll at that time. None of them appeared
to be in a serious condition, said Miss
Gordon.
In giving Chrisman Swope a hypo-
dermic injection December 5, said Miss
Gordon, Doctor Hyde filled his hypoder-
mic syringe with dirty water from a
washbowl before he inserted the needle
Miss Gordon's testimony regarding
the illness of Chrisman Swope merely
corroborated the stories of other nurses.
Miss Gordon was in charge of Miss
Margaret Swope on the night of De-
cember IL, when Doctor Hyde gave her
a hypodermic. She thus described the
incident:
II heard Margaret sobbing and went
to her. She told me Doctor Hyde had
given her a hypodermic. l went out
into the hall and asked Doctor Hyde If
he had given a hypodermic. He smiled
and said he had given her some cam
phorated oil for an intermittent pulse
/ returned to the room and found her
pulse about normal.
There was no odor of camphorated
oil in the room and no trace of it on the
arm. There was no such oil in the
house"
BATTLING FOR HUSBAND
When Attorney Frank P. Walsh re-
opened his cross examination of Miss
Anna Houlihan, a nurse, today he was
well provided with ammunition fur
nished by Mrs. Hyde, wife of the de-
fendant.
The defense delivered telling blows
to the story of Miss Houlihan Saturday,
and this spurred them on in the hope
that further progress might be made
today.
There is not a circumstance con-
nected with the illness In the Swope
house that Mrs. Hyde is not conver-
SAINT with. She has proved invaluable
to her husband in planning his battle
for life. She is constantly at her hus-
bands elbow listening and suggesting
Court hours were heightened today
by Judge Latshaw because of his desire
to free the jury as soon as possible
The morning session now is from to
IL o'clock and the afternoon session
from 1880 to o'clock. Night sessions
will be held If the court thinks them
necessary.
According to a German publication a
firm in Munich has succeeded in arti-
ficially rendering asbestos waterproof.
Infants foods form a considerable
item of importation, $4,000 worth in
1908.