Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-20
NURSE SWEARS TO
FATEFUL PROPHECY
MADE BY DR.. HYDE
Col. SWope Will Never Return to
Kansas City, Words Attri-
buted to Defendant
DEFENSE RAISES VITAL POINT
Insists Testimony Be Restricted
to Circumstances of Mil
Iionaire'S Death
ASSOCIATED Press1

II ANsAs CITY, April 19.-"Colonel
II Swope will never return to Kan
sas City"
This prophecy testified Miss Pearl
Keller, a nurse, in the Hyde murder
'trial today, was made to her by DR..
B. C. Hyde in Independence, Mo, a
few days before Colonel Swope died.
She was Colonel Swope's nurse
Dr. Hyde's remark, said Miss Keller,
was made when she informed the ply
sician Colonel Swope planned to come
here to his office in a few days. Her
patient was at that time testified the
nurse in better physical condition than
he had been for weeks He was able
to take daily drives and seemed in
good spirits, she said.
Between the time Dr. Hyde is al
legad to have made the remark and
Colonel Swopes death, James Moss
Hunton, a cousin of Swope, died.
Miss Keller who was taking up the
Swope mysteries in chronological or
der, had begun to tell of the illness of
Hunton when the defense objected.
Attorneys for DIR. Hyde claim testi-
mony regarding no other death or ILL
ness than that of Colonel Swope should
De duInllIeu III ltlb pItStill u 4ltbls De-
fore Miss Keller resumes the stand this
point will be decided.
The matter is a vital one. If the
court upholds the objection the evil
dence regarding the death of Hunton
or Chrisman Swope, the illness of Mar
garet Swope or the typhoid epidemic
in the Swope house will be admitted.
Miss Keller was the first important
witness called by the state this after
J. Vineyard and F. T. Chiles, were
asked to identify Colonel Swope's will
and the appraisement list Of his per-
sonal property.
WALSH OUTLINES DEFENSE
Frank P. Walsh delivered the OPEN
ing statement for the defense today,
occupying the entire morning session.
His address contained many rebukes
for Mrs. Logan o. Swope, charges of
trickery against the chemists employed
to make the analyses of the viscera
of Thomas H. and Christian Swope,
and a prediction that the defense would
be able to disprove every charge made
against DIR. Hyde by the state.
In part, Mr.. Walsh said the defense
would introduce testimony to prove
that:
First-Neither DIR. Hyde nor his wife
knew before the death of Colonel
Swope whether they were to share In
the residuary of his estate
Second-Mrs. Logan o. Swope was
deeply prejudiced against DR.. Hyde
because she thought he gave Mrs. Hyde
financial advice contrary to the opin-
ions of her mother.
Third-The charge that cyanide of
potassium had been found in the or
gans of Colonel and Chrisman SWope
was an eleventh hour trick trumped
up by the prosecution. DR.. Hyde had
such poison in his Office to eradicate
Vermin.
Fourth-For years the Swope family
had taken medicine compounded by
Chesssing Hatred Chase Jordan, an al
legged South American doctor, who
holds no physicians certificate.
Fifth-Sanitary conditions alone were
responsible for the spread of fever in
the Swope residence.
Sixth-Original statements from the
Swope chemists stated that there was
no poison either in the stomach of Miss
Margaret Swope or in capsules thrown
away by DR.. HYDE. but when MI Pax