Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-06
Costs Her Six Hundred Dollars a
Day to Retain Three Scientists
Who Have Testified.
DEFENSE GETS AGGRESSIVE
scores New Puiut When DR.. Gross
Iestihcs tu Formation Of
HydrocNanic Acid.

Kansas city May G-signs OF rvs-
n'de in the stomach OF Col Thomas H.
s"opo might have resulted from tho
m'us.ng of forma'dehyde injected Poe
smoa.ming fluid and the natural am
m'nia Iu the body. testified DR. Wal
Ter NJ Cross iu the Hyde trial TODAY
Formaldchyd" and ammonia. he said.
would form hydrocyanir acid. which .a
the active poisonous Ingredient of cya-
uido
Dr. Cross also testified that he be-
Harad The typhoid epidemic al tra
sv1re hous. resulted alone from un
sanitary conditions BE once examined
The property at the request OF Mrs
Suupe
STATES PLANS CHANGED
Radical changes have been made m
The states plan for presenting rebuttai
evidence in the Hyde poisoning case
since the defense began it's vigorous at
tack ou expert testimony yesterday
Instead OF the prosecutions three
srlentlsts-Dr. W S. Haiues. Dr. Lud-
wig HeNoen ami Dr. Victor e. Vaughn
returning home early today. as they
had planned to do they remained here
under the direction OF tho state. I.
rs ntmated am OF the scientists may
DC recalled for rsbuttai testimony
bI. hNdc7 intention. b. is understood
is Co center his fight f0r liberty on
breaking down the evidence given by
tho prosecutions experts.
Although each Of the scientists who
has given evidence for the state is r..
"a ID hn
Mrs. Swoue. she U.s. determined that no
cost shall prevent her from keeping
their testimony as nearly intact as pos
slb.p
new point was scored by the de-
Tense TODAY when Dr Walter NJ Cross
declared that by the miuglng ~ FOR
Wa'loHydo aud ammonia. hvdrocyau.g
acid. the active part OF cyanide. would
h" formed. lu the emhalm.ur fluid
used ON COL swope's body was r5r-
madcHydc. Ammonia. said the wits
/ ness present ir large Quantities in
ON bodies
could these changer take place fr a
human bods asked Mr. Brewster
l an convinced they could" said
d. Cross.
MU AtWood's cross examination was
long and lively puucflatad frequently
bN rows between the attorneys. the
court and the chemist
A SCIENTIFIC DUEL
The state attempted to show that
hydrogyauie acid would form from the
blending mentioned only under high
heat pressure Or Cross said such
acid would be- formed under room tenn
ue8tura az well as "a higher tempera-
turr The defense said 10 would show
by charts that the weather was warm
during the first month that Col
Swopes body lay ion the vault
By employing Hypothetical question
Mr.. Brewster Nus able To get before
the jury the alleged uusanitary condi-
tons 1t the Swopg house. which the de-
Tense claims caused the typhoid ep
demic Dr Cross said undoubtedly
these conditions caused the fever
The defense contends that n negro
who cleaned "a vault believed 70 have
contained typhoid germs, az the Swope
house. also MIXED the cows and cared
for the milk
Typhoid was present in negro
cabin ON the property "a few months
before the epidemic started. says the
defense.
The state also Uruuouuded a hypo-
thgti.aI question o. Dr. Cross setting
forth Ur Hydr's alleged incubation of
the family by means uf germs and
asked him If this would not probably
have caused the typhoid
The court sustained an objection tn
the question.