The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-13
STIRRING ADDRESS
BY HYDE'S ATTORNEY
Jurors Weep as Lawyer Pleads
His Clients Case
CHEMISTS ExcoR1ATED
Hired Exccutioncr of DIR. Hyde
and Mrs. Hyde's Virtues
Are Extolled

Kansas City, May 12.-For almost seven
hours today Attorney Frank P. Walsh ad-
dressed the jury which is sitting in judg-
ment upon DR.. B. Clark Hyde. MT.
| Walsh closed his address shortly before .
O'Clock and at night session Attorney
johnson p Atwood spoke in behalf of the
state.
Not a phase of the Swope mystery was
/ left untouched by Mr.. Walsh. Mr.. At
woods address dealt more specihcaily
| with the investigations made by the pros
ecution's scientists
"If YOU hang Clark Hyde, declared Mr..
Walsh at one point in his argument II
will be upon the word of one woman
alone-Mrs. Logan o. Swope. IL Is she
that swears the physician knew OF the
residuary clause in Colonel Swopes Will
1t is the contention of the state that
knowledge of this clause and the dement's
it would bring to him and his wire caused
the defendant to kill Colonel Swope.
FREQUENTLY during Mr.. Walsh's speech
Jurors wept At one time four OF them
were crying Neither Mrs. Hyde nor MIS-
Swope could conceal their emotion as the
intricate details of the case were iaio
bare.
Every charge made by the state against
tbs nbvsician averred Mr.. Walsh, lacked
a connecting link to make proof Oh the al
legations positive. This situation was
due he said, to the fact that the entire
"alleged mystery" was based upon sus-
melons. falsehoods, exaggerations and the
make large
fees.
No opportunity was lost by Dr. Hyoe
attorney to bring the plight OF Mrs. Hyoe'
who sat by her husbands side, before the
,ury. She was referred to at least Gu
times.
The states chemists were excoriated by
the attorney DR.. Vaughn was teriheo
"the hired executioner of Dr. Hyde.
Mr. Walshs eulogy of Mrs. Hyde was
extended.
who was it cared for the little chill
dren in the swope family?" he said.
.'Who was it performed the duties oil
mother? Who was 1t, when the strong
arm of James Moss Hunton was gone
took up the work of this foster father?
Il was Frances Hyde.
when DIR. Hyde and his wife LETT the
house of Mrs. Swope on the night OF De
cember 49, she told her mother she would
return only when her husband was asked
10 come hack with her. Did this mean
she was a woman true to her marriage
vows? Or that she was the accomphce
NJ man who had slain her brother and
bar uncle. as the state would have you
believer"
AS Mr.. Walsh spoke of the defendants
wife Juror W. C. Crane shed tears.
DR.. Hyde was pictured as victim OF
circumstances, but as a man VINO was
brave in the face of dark charges against
him.
when Moss Huntons death was mem
TONED both Mrs Swope and Mrs. Hyde
were overcome, and although they re-
NAMED In the courtroom, both wept CO.
piously.
Miss Pearl Keller, the nurse who cared
for Colonel Swope, was grllled Tor ner
activity In organizing the nurses IN the
Swope house. Her memory snoulo not De
considered any better than that OF MIS-.
Hye or any one else, said the attorney
Mr. Walsh also intimated that members
of the Swope family had distorted their
stories told on the witness stand
eDo YOU want to take the filthy sug-
eestiou that 1t was pleasure to this man
to see Colonel Swope die that he might
get his dirty money! asked Mr.. WASH
.sIf DR. Hyde is hanged continued the
attorney, sit will be upon the word OF
Mrs. Logan o. Swope, the only witness
who testified that the physician knew OF
rhe residuary portion of the Swope estate,
the explation the state gives for the
nhvsician's reason for wanting to get rid
n, tho unilil(>