The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-19
DR.. HYDE EXONERATED
IN OPENING STATEMENT
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Swope was displayed. Every death in
the house; every illness of members of the
Swope family and others. which the state
alleges Dr. Hyde caused were reviewed.
At one time 1t seemed the innermOst Sc
cret of the domestic warfare in the Swope
family would be exposed. When Mr.. Reed
! launched on the history of the cOurtship
of DR.. and Mrs. Hyde, which ended in an
| elopement and for years caused family
estrangement. the spectators leaned for
ward eagerly. Mr. Walsh quickly inter
posed an objection to this story and the
court sustained him.
! Hundreds of people were unable TO get
| into the court room. The seats were filled
an hour before the session started Later
the aisles filled. Many spectators brought
lunch with them. The crowd was quiet
and orderly.
The charge that Dr. Hyde poisoned Col
onel Swope and Chrisman Swope by cya-
hide of potassium as we'll as strychnine
was the only new feature brought out in
Mr.. Reeds address. DR.. Hyde purchased
large quantities of cyanide of potassium
capsules at a local drug store, which was
recently burned, it was said. According TO
Mr.. Reed. however, the poison books OF
the druggist. containing records of Hyde's
purchases. were saved
| simultaneously with the buying of the
! cyanide capsules, said Mr.. Reed, the phy-
stefan obtained a quantity of Holienden
digestive tablets, similar in appearance to
the poison. BY the use Of the digestive
capsules, the attorney charged. DR.. Hyde
hoped to cover up the fact that he had
administered poison TO his victims.
Opening Statement in Full.
| Picturing Dr. B. c. Hyde as a man
whose evil prOpensities led him. during
his bOyhood, to torture animals, In later
| life to abuse the poor and helpless, and
/ in the fullness of professional success TO
conceive the most colossal murder plot in
the history of criminslity, Attorney James
A. Reed made the opening statement for
the state in the physicians trial rere to-
day.
! In leading up to the motive which the
state claims caused the alleged murders
| to be committed. Mr.. Reed explained that
an overpowering greed for money had
| manifested itself in DIR. HYDE. With a
purpose Of adding TO his wealth, said Mr..
! Reed, the physician had made love to
women and then obtained money from
! them.
The greater part of the statement was
d repetition Of the charges made by state
| witnesses against the physician in depo-
| sitions given before DR.. Hyde's attorneys
| recently, The deaths of Colonel Thomas
H and Chrisman SwOpe and Of James
Moss HuntOn were dealt with in detail
| The charges that DR.. Hyde was re-
sponsible for the spread of typhoid fever
i'm the Swope house and that on three oc-
| casiOns he tried to poison Miss Margaret
SwOpe composed considerable part OF
the address.
Little that is new developed regarding
the findings of the Chicago scientists
who made the analysis in the case Of the
two Swopes. 1t was stated by Mr.. Reed
for the first time that the state would
show Colonel SwOpe was poisoned with
cyanide of potassium well as strych-
nine, and that strychnine and cyanide
had been given to Chrisman Swope.
Deaths Taken UP One by One.
The story of James NJ. Huntons death
| n
ing to the statement, DR.. G. I. Twyman
protested against Dr. Hyde bleeding Hun
ton to such an extent as he dld. Dr.
Hyde was indicted for negligently killing
Hunton by bleeding.
'"rhe charge that brings the defendant
TO this bar of justice IS that of having,
with elaboration, generalization and colo
and calculating purpose, murdered one
of MissOuri's most distinguished citizens,
the kinsman Of his wife, a benefactor to
him." said Mr.. Reed in opening his adj
| dress.
"The proper investigation of this
charge compels, the state believes, the
delving into a series of crimes, each OF
| which is a part and parcel of gigantic
scheme of criminality an investigation
| of a sequence of law-invadlng wrongs so
far-reaching, so tremendous and ruth
| less in its conception and partial exc
cution as TO challenge the horror and
establishment of the world and TO stand
without parallel in the annals OF crime
| first told by Dr. G. 7. Twyman OF lnde-
| pendence of the suspicious against MIN
was: well wouldn't that beat you,
according to Mr.. Reed.
Deaths Taken Up One by One.
| The deaths in the household were taken
up chronologically, Mr.. Reed attempting
! 10 show that DR.. Hyde had planned mis-
| conquest of the wealth of the Swope
| heirs with cunning. The first step, &C
| cording to Mr. Reed, was to do away
| with Hunton, an executor OF the S"ope
| estate. and then get the position himself.
| Therefore, said Reed, the physician drew
| two quarts of blood from Hunton's body
F, after he had been stricken by apoplexy,
and in four minutes Hunton was dead.
! Said Mr. Reed:
HYDE to do this thing: Hunton was ex-
! ecutor of the will. AS the evidence will
| show, Hyde wanted this place.
''Within a few minutes, less than
| ten, after Hunton mad died' Whiie the
mans blood was still wet on his hands,
| HYDE called Miss Kellar, a nurse, to
him and said he wanted TO see her.
| shortly thereafter. within an hour, he
| tercede with Colonel Swope to the end
/ that he, Hyde. be made executor In
Huntons place. This was declined by
Miss Kellar."
then entered into. It was rehearsed
how, at DR.. Hydes orders, Miss heliar
gave Colonel Swope a capsule. Con-
vulsions ensued. Again, at Hyde's or
ders. a hypodermic injection was given.
Death followed Having completed the
history of the case to this point, Mr.
| Reed said
Alleged Scheme of DR.. Hyde.
'The foregoing evidence might be
said tc be the first evidential chapter
that makes plain the plan and the
| scheme of DR.. Hyde to accomplish an
acquisition of a large part of the Swope
| fortune. Hunton was dead, and al
! though Hyde had not been specified as
executor in Hunton's place. Swope was
dead, and dead, too, without a change in
| the will that left the family, of which
Hyde's wife was one, the great bulk
| of the vast fortune.
THE next testimony that will be in
trOduced will be indicative of the fact
| that the next move In the carrying out
of this plan and purpose was to remove
as many members of the Swope family
as might be. to the end that the fall OF
each would swell the fortune that he.
through his wife, would be able to
control"
A lengthy recital of how DR.. Hyde
obtained typhoid and diphtheria germs
| of Dr.. e. L. Stewart, and the appear