The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-18

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
ance of typhoid fever in the Swope
residence followed. This typhoid could
not have come from the water used, it
was said, because the. water came from
cistern and was fully filtered. It
was on the occasion of DR.. Hyde TAX
ing dinner with the Swope family on
Novem ber 25 that he is thought to
have spread the germs. it was said.
Chrisman Swope's death was
touched lightly upon AMI then the
state came to the alleged attempts of
Dr. Hyde to poison Margaret Swope.
Three indictments are pendinm against
little was known of the testimony of
witnesses that led to the indictment.
This is the story briefly, as told by
Reed:
On December Miss Swope was
stricken with typhoid. DR.. G. T. ivy
man was placed in charge of the pa
tient. One night, while the girl was
supposed to be almost recovered a
nurse learned that Hyde had given the
girl hypodermic injection.
When asked why he had made the
injection. Hyde replied he had given
her only some oil of canlphor for in
termittent pulse. Miss Swope denied
the physician felt her pulse and the
nurse found no odor like oil of cam
phor
She Has a Sore Arm.
A sore has recently developed upon
the girls arm, which the state believes
Is due to the physician injecting some
of the germs he obtained from Or.
Stewart into Miss Swope's arm.
A few days later. Dr. Hyde left a
capsule among the medicines belong
ing to the girl. A nurse administered
the capsule Miss Swope was seized
with An n
the contents of her stomach showed
strychnine.
significant feature of that section
of the statement which referred to
Hyde purchasing poison was the re-
ference to the store of the druggist of
whom the poison was bought being
burned recently.
There is druggist in Kansas City
named Brecklein whose store was near
the office of DIR. Hyde and at which
the physician obtained some of his
medicinal supplies. After Col. and
Chrisman Swope had died, and after
the rebellion of the nurses and the
outcry of suspicion, this drugstore was
burned How or why we did not
know. nor, perhaps will it be neces-
sary to investigate, but while it burn
ed the books of account of Brecklein
were not burned. and these books dis
closed that on Dec. 4 and IL Hyde
purchased cyanide of potassium in
capsules at the store.''
Attorneys for the state refused, af-
ter the address had been made, to
discuss the burning of the drugstore.
For Only One Murder.
In closing his address Mr.. Reed ex-
planned that DR.. Hyde was being tried
only for the murder of Col. Swope.
He said:
1.-The evidence of all these other
crimes that will be introduced will be
so introduced, not for the purpose of
iraor he 6AfnnIaraf ~ 1f nfI1
crimes, but for the purposes of show
ing the intents and purposes and mo-
tive that controlled him in his con-
duct toward Col. Swope.
There will doubtless be proof that
typhoid incubation of the Swope
family could have occurred without
the Intervention ofHyde. If that should
be established, then the question must
be determined, or may have to be
as to whether or not it
was so introduced, or whether it was
the result of the manipulation of the
typhoid germs received by the de-
fendent from DR.. Stewart. We want
that every reasonable doubt shall be
solved in his favor, that the presump-
tions of innocence that the law pro-
claims shall be kept ever present be-
fore our eyes
But if, after according to the de-
fendent all the things accorded to
him by law; if after the elimination
of each doubt by casting it into the
column that counts for him and his
good; if after all this be done, the
cold, indubitable fact remains, that
is forced in upon your convictions by
your consciences; that he is, as he is
charged with being a murderer and
an assassin employing the instrument
talities of poison, then it will be your
duty to the state of which you are
part, to the laws which it is your duty
to obey, to yourselves, and to the
that guides the destinies
Of all men to shrink not from that
answer that shall judicially proclaim
his guilt
The Jury.
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W. G. Crone. salesman, so; Lees
c. W. Whitehead. abstracter. AZ;
Kansas City.
G. G. FeIdt, salesman, S5; Kansas
Byron D. Li1liard. conductor. so;
kansas City.
John A. PLANT, teamster. 60; Kansas
City.
Samuel R. Johnson. farmer, Al; sib-
ey. |
Frank claypool. oattleman, 4s; |
Kansas City
F. r. Hedges, clerk, So; Kansas City. |
Eli Rivers. bookkeeper, %; Kansas |
-ity.
When the jury filed into it's place |
DR.. Hyde watched the men carefully |
md noted the characteristics of each. |
He knew every face ana called the men |
oy name in sTeaking to them.
This jury looks all right to me-, he |
said. Il kEpw I shall obtain a fair |
rial
According to the prosecutor all of |
he witnesses subpoenaed by the state |
forty testify at the trial. |
Rumors have been current that GER |
ain members of the Swope family |
would not take the stand.
Morning sessions of court will be |
rom 20 To = and a affarnnnn sessions