Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-05-06
AGED MOTHER IS
i BROKEN down BY
GRIEF AND WORRY.
Mrs. Hyde Laughs and Chats
While Her Mother Sobs in
Crowded Court.

Kansas City, April 15.-After sitting
with fixed countenance and apparent
for two days in the court
room, Mrs. Logan o. Swope gave way
TO her emotions and wept bitterly as
she talked with newspaper men soon
after the trial of DR.. b. c. Hyde opened
today. Recalling her home when Colonel
Thomas III. Swope was alive, and no
serious fractional strife was apparent in
the Swope family, the gray haired
woman contrasted 1t with the present
lonely residence.
THE old home Is no longer the place
hat Ii was In the days when Colonel
Swope and Moss Hunton were alive"
she said. Those were happy times.
There was life and happiness in the
old independence homestead then. But
now the rooms seem cold and barren
since my beloved friends AVE gone
away.
II am not in his court room by
choice. My presence here was due en-
tirely to see that justice is done and
the guilty are convicted. 1t Is not a
pleasure to sit here and undergo his
ordeal. But 1t is my duty and / will
suffer much to perform 1t properly"
Daughter Laughs and Jokes.
While Mrs. Swope talked, her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Hyde. sat a few feet away.
laughing and joking with her husband.
She did not kno her mother was cry
ing. for she could not see her.
In the midst OF her tears, Mrs. Swope
stopped speaking for a moment n ST.
lently regarded the defendant and his
wife. 1t brought back to her mind the
days OF their courtship.
Sobbing violently, h began to tell
of the times when DR.. Hyde came into
her family circle. She spoke a few
words on this phase of the case and
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torney, arose and left the court room.
~Jureymen Lose Out.
The cause of the insurgent veniremen
in the Hyde murder trial, who yester-
day questioned the constitutional right
of Judge Ralph S. LAtshaw to RENAME
them to the custody of the marshal un-
til a jury Is obtained and were re-
leased, was lost today. The court an
nounced that it's lease for granting
them their release last night was on
account OF the small. number OF tales
men present and not because Of any
question as to its legal right to hold
them.
"AI veniremen will be in charge OF
the county marshal from this time
until finally excused said the Judge.
Although DIR. Hyde is still as affable
n smiling as he was when the trial
opened, he expresses a.:cc:IaaTs to-
day at the slowness with which jurors
are being obtained.
IT hope this Is the last day OF ques-
tioning veniremen,'' he said. II want
to get through with the trial as DOR
as possible"
Still Trying for Jurors.
In order to expedite the selection of
the remaining ~ temporary jurymen to
fill out the panel of AZ In the trial of
DIR. B. c.. Hyde, attorneys today adopt
ed a new plan OF examining venire-
men.
Each mar was called separately into
the jury room and Intercepted. Here
tofore, the unexamined veniremen
have been permitted to hear thaS ques-
tioning OF all prospective jurors. At
torneys believe the answers tended to
influence the opinions OF other venire-
men.
1t will probably be "a hours after the
jur- of AZ is chosen before the final
IL men, who will try the case, are
agreed Upon. There will be no further
examinations In court, but the attor-
neys will max their selections in
private. The state must first exercise
it's Is challenges. From the list Of 80
tentative jurymen the defense will
strike off 20. The remaining IL will
compose the jury.