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fortunately recovered. In quick succession other
members of the family sickened with typhoid fever.
+ These cases were all of most virulent type and.
only the most careful nursing saved them from end
ing fatally. The physician in charge was DR. Hyde,
who signed the death certificates. Suspicion fas-
tened upon him. and this suspicion deepened into
q grave charge when it was discovered that Dr..
Hyde had purchased a bottle containing culture
of typhoid germs from well-known bacteriologist
It was then claimed that Hyde had inoculatedr
Colonel Swope and the members of his family and
household, that his wife, niece Of Colonel Swope
might inherit their fortunes. - ~. rrrE5l.s. Fl
The bodies of Colonel and Chrisrnan Swope were
exhumed, and after the experts made their reports
the eoroner's jury returned verdict against Hyde
But they declined to commit themselves to verdict
of intentional murder. Hyde is out on $4,000
BAIL and awaits his trial for murder before Grim
inaI court. 81
The most awful feature of this Swope case is
the use that may be made by an unscrupulous or
degenerate physician of the deadly parasite and mi
crobe. fearful example of the reality of inocu-
latlon by microbes occurred about twenty-five years
ago IN Brazil, By the use of cholera germs Dr. Al
varez, wealthy and active politician of Rio Jan
elro, committed atrocious murders. This man had
made In his time many political enemies By de-
grees he became reconciled to them. But this out
ward reconciliation was mask hiding a most
fendish revenge. He invited them to a es1mptuous
dinner that together they might discuss and evolve
"a scheme for the better government of the city.
The morning after the banquet twenty of the guests
were stricken with cholera, and fourteen of them
persisted and were hastily buried : Ias
children and friends demanded the arrest of AL
varez. There was absolutely no eliminating cir
eumstance proved, there was no evidence against
him hen when the judge was about to charge the
Jury In faVorof the accused the butler of Alvarez
voluntarily became a witness. He confessed that
by his masters orders he had used ice from a spe
cal vessel to whip the Creme de menthe" served
to the guests. Investigation showed that this ice
had been stepped for hours in culture of cholera
germs Dr. Alvarez escaped the humiliation of
public execution by committing suicide as+e.
81 The fendish cunning and the heIlsh act of
human being who voluntarily descends to such
depths of incredible sin separates him from his kind
and places him the company of devils aA-
4rr People may talk about prayer to God as they
Ike but It is certain that these human fends never
pray 1t would be impossible for the man who prays
or even for the man. who believes in Judgment to
come to fall from the stage of his manhood into
the abyss of devils Before any mans heart had
become hardened to iron, his nature changed to-
half-brute, half-deviI it would demand for the
awful transition. years of familiarity with decep-
ton, cunning, dissrnulation, corruption unfaith-
tulness and with lies. These are the men ST. Jude
denounees as "twiee dead, wandering stars, for
whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever"
and whom st. Peter calls Irrational beasts SONS
of maledicton, having eyes full of never oeasinq
SIN, fountains without water, clouds tossed by
whiFlFinds for whom the mist of darkness is re.
served. -. -ti Il 81 --.--- a----