The Mena weekly star., 1910-05-19
HE EVIDENCE ALL IN |
BOTH SIDES HAVE CLOSED IN THE DR. HYDE TRIAL AT
 kAfsAs CITY.
COUNSEL BEGIN ARGUMENTS
Frank Walsh, for Defense, Draws Tears from Jury and Spectators by Ills Plea to Save His Client from Conviction.

Conviction.
 Kansas City. May 13.-The jury has heard the last of the testimony in the Hyde case. The state announced that It rested it's case and the defense stated that no sur-rebuttal testimony would be offered.
 Judge Latshaw then turned to the Jury and said:
 Gentlemen, the evidence in this case Is completed"
 Ihen he remanded the jury to the custody of the county marshal for one hour, then 1t was recalled and the in. struction were read.
 Instructions of Court.
 under the instructions of the court the Jury must either acquit Dr. Hyde or ind him guilty of murder in the hrst degree. If 1t finds him guilty the Jury may condemn him to death or assess his punishment at life term in the penitentiary
 Henry l.. Jost, assistant prosecutor made the opening statement.
 
 Big Crowd There.
 NO murder case of the last ten or twelve years has attracted such Crowd as that which tried to get into the crominal courtroom in the morn. ing Probably thousand persons were obliged to leave because they could get no nearer the courtroom than the pavement on Oak street, half way to Independence avenue. The hallways and staircase were packed at o'clock. Even the space inside the rail and the passageway leading into the jail were damned. Men and women and young girls stood five hours without a chance to change their position to hear a law. yer plead for his clients life. The aisles were solidly massed with thrcng that could not be moved.
 And the few hundreds who gained admission doubtless found their re- ward, for certainly no courtroom crowd In Kansas City ever has heard an ar gument having to do wholly with cir. cumstances, the proving of which might mean death for the accused. They heard a plea based upon the courts instructions to the jury that no direct testimony had been adduced to prove the defendants guilt of the murder of Thomas H. Swope.
 Walsh Draws Tears.
 IL was fine opportunity for the pub lie to hear a speech remarkable for it's appeal to the most sentimental sympathies of men Not only the jurors wept. Men and women in the audience used their handkerchiefs frequently
 For the visiting lawyers and judges it was only an opportunity to study the methods of a successful lawyer For the eight or nine members of the Swope family in the front row, it was pitiless arraignment. dragging be fore the public of their private feelings and ambitions and animosties far more convincing than they could be described by a witness.
 For almost all of the first hour MT Walsh spoke of the defendants wife He employed every artifice that elo quence knows to portray to the jury the impulses that actuated her in her testimony. He referred to every con tradiction, developed ard explained f cleverly. He put the states witnesses on the side of the defense, reversed the circumstances upon which the prosecution based it's case and pleaded with the jurors to say in their hearts what they would have done or thought If the positions were changed. He scored the prosecution for it's attacks on Doctor Hyde, MT. Josts reference 10 him yesterday afternoon as that fellow" and to Mrs. Hyde as that woman driven to the stand'
 Mrs. swope's Plight.
 He pictured the plight of the mother, Mrs. l.. O. Swope, who looked about her for advisers when her old friend. Moss Hunton, died, and found J. G. Paxton, upon whom from long ac- luaintance she could depend and whom she paid $500 in the first few weeks for assistance and advice. MT. Walsh attacked no member of the Swope family, but by comparing their testimony with what he declared to be the truth, he arraigned them singly Ind collectively, and in doing so de- ,cribed situation that told much to .he listeners. eager 10 hear the inside history.
 Clark Hyde is in no dan-er" Mir
 
 Walsh cried. "He is in no danger if this jury considers it's duty carefully But if you believe he murdered that old man to enrich himself through his wife then hang him. choke him to death or send him to the states prison lto iahor and elx1tllx hahind bars until