The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-25
IMhO. HYUE HELPN
Wife of the Defendant in Swope
Murder Trial
Is Proving a Valuable Assistant
to Her Husband.
A NUMBER OF CHARTS
And Suggestions Have Been Pre-
pared by Her
To Break Down the Testimony
of Miss HOulihan.
A NUMBER OF CHARTS

Kansas City, Mo, April 25-When
Attorney Frank P. Walsh reopened his
ss-ex animation of Miss Anna Houli-
han, rurse, in the Swope murder trial
today he was well provided with ammu-
milton furnished by Mrs. B. c. Hyde,
wife of the defendant.
All day yesterday in her home out
in exclusive Forest avenue. Mrs. Hyde
worked on a -'~n to break down the
story of the nurse who was so con-
spicuous during the tempestuous days
IN the SWope homestead. The defense
delivered telling blows to the story of
Miss Houhhan Saturday, and this
spurred them on in the hope that fur
ther progress might be made today.
Numerous charts We're drawn and lists
Of suggestions were written by Mrs.
Hyde yesterday to be used in the fight
on the nurses testimony today. There
is not circumstance connected with
the illness in the Swope house that Mrs.
Hyde is not conversant with. She has
proven invaluable to her husband in
planning his battle for life.
Mrs. Hyde does not intend to stop
her work with the drawing of the
charts or the jotting down of questions
her husbands elbow listening, suggest
ing, encouraging and hoping.
Court Hours Heightened.
Court hours were heightened, to be-
gin today, by Judge Latshaw, because
of his desire to free the jury as soon
as possible. The morning session now
is from to IL o'clock and the after
noon session is from 1870 to 6 o'clock.
Night sessions will be held if the
court thinks them necessary. The
subject of the hypodermic injection
which was given Margaret Swope by
DIR. Hyde was among the first touched
on in the cross examination of Miss
Houlihan today.
rs it not true" asked Mr.. Walsh.
that hypodermic injection often
causes hard lump to raise on the
arm ?"
Sometimes" Miss Houlihan an
swered.
these injections and you had been or
dered to cease giving them to her,
beIieve?''
''The arm was sensitive"
s'You gave her four injections Mon
day under the direction of DR.. ivy
man.
It can't remember"
Her heart action was weak and in
termittent ?"
cit was weak"
The nurse told of a visit she made
to DR.. Hyde's room in the Swope home
one night when the patients tempera-
ture began to fall rapidly.
"Margaret's temperature fell from
fraction more than 102 to about 9S, and
I went to call DIR. Hyde" said the wit
ness.
Il told him about this. He did not
arise, but told me he had done all he
could do"
DIR. Hyde Sco1ded Her.
That DIR. Hyde reprimanded her be-
cause she did not give the girl her
medicine at the proper time, was ad-
mitted by Miss Houlihan.
He spoke sharply and seemed great
ly put out about it, said the nurse.
Did Chrisman swope suffer from
halIucinations? asked Mr.. Walsh.
Yes replied Miss Houlihan. HE
imagined DR. Hyde was going to oper-
ate on him, and that Margaret was
dead"
The inroads the defense was making
upon the testimony of the nurse, SEEM
ingly perturbed Mrs. Logan 0. Swopa
After listening for an hour to the ex-
animation of the witness she called one
of her special attorneys to her and held
a lengthy consultation.
What did DR.. Hyde say when he
handed you the capsule to give Chris
man Swope?" asked Mr.. Walsh.
1.-The patient Is getting along all
right, and it is time to give him his
medicine" answered the witness
Miss Houlihan gave the capsule and
a convulsion followed
The attempt of Mr.. Walsh to show
Miss Houlihan disliked DR.. Hyde and
had Quarrelled with him in the Swope
residence. brought vigorous denial by
the nurse.
why did you leave the Swope house
on December 1872 asked Mr.. Reed
when Mr.. Walsh had finished with the
witness.
Three of DR.. Hyde's attorneys OBJ
jected at the same time to the witness
answering, and the court upheld the
objection.
o. H. Gentry, the Independence drug
gist, who compounded the strychnine
tonic for Col. Swope, and James Moss
Hunton, next took the witness stand
not fear his own prescription. He took
a bottle of the tonic to the stand with
him and betimes took drink of it.
II have a slight palpitation of the
heart" he explained to the court when
attorneys for DR.. Hyde objected to the
druggist drinking the medicine.
Mr.. Gentry said an ounce Of the tonic
contained but one one-hundred and
eightieth of a grain of strychntne.
Margaret Swope Called.
Miss Margaret Swope took the wit
hess stand at Has o'clock. The girl
has not fully recovered from the effects
Of typhoid fever. She is 81 years of age
DIR. Hyde and his wife leaned for
ward eagerly ard listened intently to
her testimony.
Referring to the report that DR.. Hyde
once took bottled water to the Swops
house for the use of himself and his
wife, the witness said:
Before Col. Huntons death, DR.
Hyde and his wife used to drink cis-
tern water ar our house But when
they came there on the Sunday before
Thanksgiving DIR. Hyde brought bottled
water for the use of himself and Mrs
Hyde. The rest of the family drank
tfstern water.