New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-11

Dr stewart, in telling his story TO the
atto-revs OF the Swope estate and f0
PROSECUTOR Virgil Conkiing. explained that
+,,nl,oid culture consisted OF test tube .
arod with media on Which the typhoid bac- .
.Ar;a lived A healthy growth OF bacteria ,
co,.erAa the media. The test tube given .
nv HYDE. he said, contained aigai media {
ed millions OF the minute typhoid bsc- +
terra
HYDE HIMSELF ATTACKED.
on Decsn1ber % DR. Hyde himself suf-
fsred an attack stated TO be typhoid fever.
which added 70 the complications of the
case DR.. Stewart later supplied the prose
c,t,rS attorney with interesting evidence
bearing on Dr. Hyde's Illness.
when Dr. Hyde became H." said DR..
Stewart, II vas asked TO make an exam
ination OF lis blood for typhoid. He asked
that I make the Vidal test This will
show typhoid fever even IL the subject
whose blood is examined suffered from the
disease several years before. An examina-
ton of the blood or DR.. Hyde showed a
faint trace Of typhoid.
~ then asked permission 20 make the
culture test This is an absolute test for
typhoid if it is actively present in the blood
when the blood is taken from the patient"
Dr. Stewart said that although Or.
Hyde's blood was placed side by side n
incubator With blood taken from typhoid
patient IN Kansas CITY hospital II
NAMED absolutely sterile o. typhoid and
contained no typhoid germs.
After it was decided that the bodies %
Colonel S1ope and Chrigrnsn Swope should
be disinterred Mr.. Paxton and Mrs Logan
Swope recalled Dr.. Hydes insistence that
re be permitted to act physician FOR the
family. although DR.. @. T. Twyn1an had
for years served IN that capacity.
HOW COLONEL sToPE DIED
Dr. Hyde prescribed for Colonel Swope
during the latter's Illness. A digestive cap
sule was administered 10 the patient on
October 5. Twenty minutes later, while
reading a newspaper. he went into co1vui-
sions. Ills neck and limbs stifened and
he groaned IN great pain. He rallied long
enough TO say: IT wish 7 had not taken
that medicine
Then with greater effort the dying man
gasped: II wish ! were dead He died
few minutes later.
Miss Keller. nurse. was alone rith
! Colonel Swope when the commissions 5e-
gan. She said the patients face was pale
throughout and that she was amazed upon
/ hearing the rnaiady had been diagnosed
as apeplexy.
{ Only two days before. James Moss Hun
ton. Colonel Sn-ope's cousin. and named as
/ an executor Of the Svope Will. had died
! from apoplexy in the presence of several
I persons. In this case there vas every
! symptom OF apopIex-.
On December . the nurses attending
! Chrisnan Seope, who was being treated
| for typhoid fever, were surprised when
! he also had commissions and became IN
! conscious similar to the case of mis- uncle
two months before. Chrlsman STope died
! on December S.
( Miss Margaret S-ope, ChrismaH's sis
/ ter, also had commissions i'll a milder form.
/ Her Illness was diagnosed as typhoid fever.
! On December Miss Cora Dixon. govern
! ess in the Svope home and cousin OF
! Colonel spope. and Miss Coppege, a negro
/ servant in the Swope home, were both
! stricken with typhoid fever.
! On December Steward S. Fleming, o.
/ Maurv County, Tenn, a nephew OF Colonel
! Swope, who was visiting at the Swope
home was taken i'll. typhoid fever being
/ given as the cause.
IL On December 9 Miss Sarah Suope. four
/ teen years old. z niece OF Colonel Suope.
| became i'll with typhoid fever. and on
| December II Miss Stella Swope, another
| niece Of Colonel Swope, was stricken With
( the same disease.
.. On December IS Miss Lucy lee daughter
of Mrs Logan Swope. was afflicted with
typhoid fever four days after her arrival
/ from Europe. DR.. Hyde had gone 10 New
! York, had accompanied the young woman
| home and had treated her in the carly
! stages of her illness
/ DR. Hyde, in statement made soon after
the investigation began, said:
/ Colonel S1ope died of apoplexy- There
Il no doubt about il. IL was plain A
| case Of apoplexy as | have ever seen
| Colonel Swope was getting old and feeble.
| He had been sick for more than three
| months of old age, lack of appetite and
! se,,ilttv. Only a few weeks before bis
death he had had a severe fall Mr. Hun
/ tons death was also due to apoplexy- He
had the same symptoms and was affected
/ almost exactly the same as was Colonel
| Swope."
DR.. Bennett Clarke Hyde is the son of
| the Res Dr. g. w. HYDE, 4 retired Baptis-
minister. OF Lexington. Mo. DR.. Hyde was
| born near Bunceton, Mo, forty years ago
| He was graduated from Wentworth Mill
| tsry Academy, Lexington, Mo, in 1889,
| and then entered the University Mcdica!
| College. Kansas City. After obtaining lis
/ degree he began the practice % medicine
here.
y
surgeon OF Kansas City. was ousted from
/ Office because Of alleged inhurnan treat
: ment of Annie Clements, negro woman,
+ who kad attempted to commit suicide and
/ WHO had come under his care at the police
/ station.
DR. Hyde's name vas even more cor
! spicuously IN the newspapers in the winter
! of 1895 80. when he vas charged With
, grave Iobbing. At this time Or. Hyde was
demonstrator OF anatomy at rhe Univer-
/ sitv Medical College. The accuse ton was
. made by Samuel Mccain and Charles
/ Perry, negroes, who had oeeu arrested OF
! suspicion. Perry confessed that he and his
companion had robbed the grave of Michael
Kelly. in st. Nary's Cemetery. at indie
/ pendence. Mo. and sold the body to Or.
/ Hyde 1t developed that many graves
! around Kansas City had been robbed.
. Perry admitted these robberies and again
Implicated Dr.. Hyde. who was arrested.
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