The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-11
After Long Gross Examination
of DR.. B. G. Hyde, Accused of
Poisoning the Swope Family,
the Defense Rests It's Case.
PROSECUTION TRIES
TO CONFUSE WITNESS
Defendant, However, Answers
Most of the Questions With
out Embarrassment, But
With Some Heat at Times
ADM0NISHED BY COURT

u ANsAs City, May 1o.-At the close
N of a long and arduOus crOss-ex-
animation of DR.. Ii. c. Hyde by
Prosecutor Virgil ConkIing, late today.
the defense in the SwOpe murder trial
rested. The ease Will be in the hands
of the jury by Saturday, it il thought.
Dr. Hyde was on the witness stand
almost the entire day BreckIein, of
whom he had purchased cyanide in the
ten years the physician said he had
used ii, was regarded by the state as
the most valuable development of the
Interrogation. DIR. Hyde began TO pur-
chase cyanide of BreckIein last fall.
The state laid great stress on the
fact that DR.. HYDE obtained more than
200 culture tubes for the reception Of
germs The defense contends this only
proves the physicians assertion that he
was stocking up for laboratory.
Prosecutor Conkling produced the
culture tube Dr. Stewart is said to have
taken from DR.. Hyde's office, and asked
the physician how many tests he had
made with germs from the tube.
One if that is the tube taken an
swered the witness.
But there are enough germs in this
tube to make 500 tests, ! believe" sug-
gested the prosecutor.
There might be enough for one or
more
The physician said he had disturbed
some Of the germs in every typhoid
tube he got from DIR. Stewart. Never,
said the witness. did he make any ex-
pertinent with the diDhtheria germs.
These germs, DR.. Stewart had testified.
had been disturbed when he found it
in DR.. Hyde's office.
Asked 10 Explain.
Stress was laid by the prosecutor
upon the fasct that DIR. Hyde made but
few experiments, yet he purchased the
culture tubes in large quantities. Asked
TO explain why he bought so many
tubes. the physician said he could
vouchSafe NJ explanation except that
he wanted enough of them to last him
for two or three years.
Mr. COnkling called attention to ty-
phoid breaking out in the SwOpe house
within a few, days after his purchase of
some of the culture tubes.
oh, there was an earthquake in the
West Indies about that time too" an
Swered DIR. Hyde.
Witness AdmOnished.
DR.. Hyde, you are admonished to
answer the questions of the prose-
when you and DR.. Perkins and Dr.
Hall went to the SwOpe residence to
look for the source of the epidemic why
didn't you mention you had been ma k
ing experiments with typhoid germs %
asked Mr.. Conkling.
There was no chance for me to com
municate any of the germs to that
household There was no connection
between the germs in my office and the
epidemic in the Swope residence" DR..
Hyde replied.
The witness declared ne had no rec
objection of Huge BreckIein sending for
nm 90 come to his store and get cyan
ide ii person.
On direct examination DR. HYDE said
he never poisoned any members of the
Swope FAMILY; that he never dropped
capsules in street in Independence
as Thomas II. SwOpe. Jr. claimed to
have seen him do; that he used cyanide
mainly for killing bugs in his office
and that he injected complicated oil
and that alone in Margaret SwOpe'S
arm.