Arizona republican., 1910-02-11

examination of his blood for typhoid. | He asked that I make the Vidal test. ] This will show typhoid fever. even if | the subject whose blood is examined, suffered from the disease several years 1 before. An examination of the blood
 of Dr. Hyde showed a faint trace of typhoid"
 Dr. Hyde prescribed for Colonel Swope in the latter's illness. The pa- tient was given a digestive capsule on October g. Twenty minutes later.
 when reading a newspaper, he went
 into convulsions. His neck and limbs stiffened and he groaned in great pain. He rallied enough to say: T wish I had not taken that medi- cine
 Then with a great effort the dying man gasped: ''I wish l were dead He died a few minutes later. THE EPIDEMIC RACED. On December nurses attending Chrisman SwOpe. who was being treated for typhoid fever. were sur prised that he also had cOnvulsions and became Unconscious exactly as his 1 uncle had done, two months before. Chrisman Swope died on December G. Miss Margaret Swope. Chrisman's sister. also had cOnvulsions in a mild
 CT form Her illness was diagnosed
 as typhoid fever.
 On December 4. Miss Cora Dickin-
 son. a governess in the Swope home.
 and cousin of Col Swope. and Miss Coppege. a negro servant in the Swope
 home, were both stricken with typhoid
 fever
 On December ,, Stewart s. Fleming
 of AIaury county, Tenn. a nephew of
 Col. Swope. who was visiting at the
 SwOpe home. became ill., typhoid being
 given as the cause On December Miss Sarah Swope, 15 years old. a
 niece of Col. SwOpe, became ill of ty-
 phoid fever and on December II Miss Stella Swope. another niece of Col. Swope. was also stricken with the
 same disease. On December IS Miss Lucy Lee. a
 daughter of Mrs. Morgan Swope. was afflicted with typhoid fever four days after her arrival from Europe. Dr. Hyde had gone to New York, accom- panied the young lady home and had treated her in the early stages of her illness.
 Five nurses employed at the Swope . home became so aroused by the mani
 festation of diseases prevailing there | that finally they notified Mrs. SwOpe
 that they would leave unless another physician was obtained Then Dr. Twyman was summoned. Shortly thereafter Dr. Hyde himself was listricken.
 Later the body of Chrisman Swope ! was secretly exhumed and that of Col. Swope was taken from its tomb. Af- ter an autopsy had been held the ; stomach of the two dead men were forwarded to Chicago and analysed by Drs. Haines. Hecktoen and Vaughn.
 Dr Hyde in a statement made soon after the investigation began. said: Col Swope died of apopleSy There is
 no doubt about it. It was as clear a case of apopIexy as I have ever seen. Col Swope was old and feeble. He
 had been sick for more than three
 months of old age. lack of appetite ] and senility. Only a few weeks be- fore his death he had a severe fall'
 HYOE'S RECORD. Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde is a son of Rev. Dr. c. w. Hyde. a retired Bap- tist minister of Lexington- Mo. Dr. Hyde was born near Bunceton. Mo. | forty years ago He was graduated from Wentworth Military Academy at
 Lexington, Mo. in 1889, and then en- | tered the University Medical College l at Kansas City. After getting his de- gree he began the practice of medi- cine here.
 Dr. Hyde's name previously figured ! before the public. In August, 1897, Dr.
 Hyde. then a police surgeon of Kansas City. was busted from office because
 of the alleged inhuman treatment of Miss Annie Clements. who | had attempted suicide and who had
 come under his care at the police sta | In 1905 attention was again directed
 toward Dr. Hyde when it became | known that he had elandestinelysmar- I ried Miss. Frances Swope. a niece of
 Col. Thomas H. Swope, on June 21. of that year. at Fayetteville. Ark, and against the wishes of her mother. Mrs. ! (Continued on page 12.)