Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-30
CANDY HAS PART
IN SW0PE TRIAL
Nurse Says Or. Hyde Gave Girl
Some and Typhoid Followed.
TELLS OF CHEESEMAN'S DEATH

Also Of Capsule Administered to
Margaret Swope, Who Had convui-
sion Like the Others-Hyds often
Remained With His Patients While
the Nurses Went to Their Meals.
Kansas City, Mo, April 23.-Seven
days after DR.. b. C. Hyde gave Miss
Stella Swope a box of candy the
young woman developed typhoid
fever, testified Miss Anna Houlihan,
a nurse, at yesterdays session of the
trial of DR.. Hyde for the alleged muir
der of Col. Thomas H. Swope.
This is the first time candy has
been mentioned in the case as q PROB
able cause of sickness, and it came
as a surprise to DR.. Hyde and his
counselors. Hyde, who was sitting
tilted back i'm his chair smilingly lis
tening TO the testimony Of the nurse,
quickly moved over to his attorneys
did not regard the testimony as ser
ious.
The death of Chrisman Swope and
the illness of Margaret Swope were
reviewed on the witness stand by
Miss Houlihan. She 1T was who cans.
ed the threatened walkout of the
nurses of the Swope home and de-
manded am investigation of DR.. Hyde
last December IS. She Is a little
1lack-haired woman, of positive man.
ner of speech.
people are | eing murdered in this
house she is said to have declared
TO DR.. Twyman in speaking Of her
suspicious Of DR.. Hyde. And after she
had stated her position firmly she put
ON her coat and hat and said she or
DR.. Hyde must leave the house. DR..
Hyde left and Mrs. Hyde went with
him.
Miss Houlihan testified that on the
might Of December 5, when Chrisman
Swope was seized with the CONFUSION
which Immediately preceded his death
she was attending to three patients.
DR.. Hyde gave her a capsule and
she administered 1t at mis- direction,
che said.
"Mr. Swope became restless half
en- hour after I gave him the capsule.
she continued, so | called DR.. Hyde.
He did not come 10 the room for 10
minutes.
when DR.. Hyde did come he told
me TO go to dinner, saying he would
remain with the patient. | went out
and at, Upon returning I found the
patient lying crosswise OF the bed
DR.. Hyde said Mr.. Swope had had an
other convulsion. The patient was
unconscious
What did Mr.. Hyde have you do?'
Administer an injection Of an
eighth of a grain of strychnine."
In half an hour thereafter. the wit.
ness said, DR.. Hyde pronounced Swope'
dead. ~~-a ~"
The nurses story of Miss Stella
Bwope's illness, which was not fatal,
c~orroborated the testimony given by
Miss Keller. The arm into which DR..
Hyde made an injection, ostensibly OF
a harmless oil, IA in a badly swollen
condition and the patient complained
of it's hurting her,
On December IS DR.. Hyde returned
from New York and soon after his
arrival gave Margaret Swope a cap
sule, said the witness.
What happened then?" asked Mr.,
Reed. q
Margaret passed into a CONFUSION.
Her symptoms were the same as
those shown by Chrisman Swope, her
body drew up and quivered in the
same manner She moaned. A state of
coma followed
While the nurses Went to their
meals. said Miss Houlihan. DR.. Hyde
often remained with his patients.
Albert NJ. OFT. an attorney and hank
er OF independence, ~corroborated Miss
Pearl Keller's story of the bleeding
OF James Moss Hunton by DIR. Hyde
CDR. Twyman asked DR.. Hyde three
times to stop the flow, and then Mrs.
HYDE implored him to close the in
cision." said the witness.
Characterization of Mr.. OFT by AT
torney Walsh developed the fact that
Mrs. Hyde held Hunton's head in her
arms throughout the operation.
The recital of the death scene NOV
&c Mrs. Hyde to tears. This is the
frs. time that she has given way 70
emotion since the trial opened Be-
tween Mrs. Hyde and Hunton there
was a peculiar and strong bond OF
friendship.
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