The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-10
HYDE ON STAND.
Continued from Page one)

| the testimony OF ThOmaS SWOpe, hel
| brother, who said he saw DR.. Hyde
drop capsule shells the evening of De.
cember Is. Mrs. Hyde said Thomas
was in the house all the time DR.. Hyde
was out. Here is the testimony:
| December 10; were you at your
| mothers house that EVENING""
Yes. My husband came in about
9 o'clock. Myself, Thomas and my
mother were in the sitting room. I let
| him in myself. He did not take of
his overcoat, but went to the tele-
phone. I went back to the sitting
Thomas and my mother were in the
room all the time my husband was
gone. He was away about forty-f1ve
minutes"
rubtly, and the cross-examination
Mr.. Reeds first inquiry was direct
ed toward the purchase of DR.. Hyde
ticket to New York.
Not until the middle of January
did my mother give me money cover
ing this amount" the witnes said.
Mr.. Walsh repeatedly had to pro-
tect his witness from questions by Mr..
Reed which the court ruled out.
Whom did your husband call up
by telephone?"
Or. Twyman.'
what did he say
''I'lI be right up. Mother and DR..
Twyman were talking an hour or so
before and DIR. Twyman told me to
tell my husband to call him up"
The witness, pressed for details or
the telephone conversation, said she
could remember none other than she
had related.
Her statement about Thomas Swope
being in the room while DR.. Hyde was
away and during the hour when. the
state contends, Hyde dropped the cap
sule pills on the street stepped on
the mand was seen by Thomas Swope,
who said he picked up some of the
fragments, was not shaken on cross
examination.
Mr.. Reed attempted to inquire
whether Mrs. Hyde had any feeling
against her mother, and the witness
responded in the negative
Goes Into Detail.
Mrs. Hyde was led in detail over
every day of her presence at the
Swope home, the prosecution inquiring
as to where DR.. Hyde was each day
and each night that the witness was in
Independence.
"After DR.. Hyde came back from
DR.. Twyman's, did he talk to anyone
else except you?"
'Then you started to pack?'
First we had q conversation and
then packed. We then left the
house."
"From the time he came in till you
left nothing was said to him by any
member of the family?'
mo"
whatever caused you to leave was
something DR.. Twyman told your hus-
band ?'
- "It was
Mr.. Reed again reverted to Thomas
Swope's whereabouts that evening, the
point that, on direct examination, had
put a crimp into the story of how the
cyanide capsule fragments were found.
He learned nothing new. Here are
some of the questions and answers:
Learn Nothing New.
did Thomas take Lucy Lee to
Miss Minors the evening of Decem-
Der 1872"
Eyes"
when did he return homer"
Between and $780,"
DR.. Hyde came in at 8, the witness
had said.
That evening. she said. her mother
and Thomas sat whispering in the sit
ting room in her presence and would
not tell her what they were saying.
The witness said she felt something
was wrong. This was while Hyde was
on his trip to Twyman's office.
"Did you see Mr.. Paxton Gomez"
''I saw him in the parlor with
mother and Thomas when we left.
This was an hour after DR.. Hyde had
come in"
You knew your husband was I'M
der grave suspicion?"
YES he told me-"
"You knew he got the information
from DR.. Twyman?"
After an objection had been raised
to this. it was withdrawn.
The witness related sending Miss
Gordon out of Margaret's room and
to dinner. Mrs. Hyde stayed there
Av1I1 fnx
she left the room. She went to the
rooms of the other patients, while DR..
Hyde went to the bathroom.
This was the evening Margaret
Swope was given what the state says
was an injection of germs and the de-
Tense said was camDhorated oil
"I went to see Sarah, Stella and
Nora Belle Dixon,'' the witness contin-
ued her narrative. 81 did not stay
long in any room"
''Did you see your husband again?"
"I saw him go into Margaret's
room.'
''You don't know what he got in the
IT know he asked for camphorated
oil.''
"You stayed upstairs?"
Eyes, in the sitting room, till Miss
Gordon came upstairs"
did you and your husband go to
dinner together"
yes"
who else was there?''
"My mother"
while you were there. did you
learn there was trouble upstairs?''
mo"
Did you go to Margaret's room and
find her complaining"
Tier arm was a little sore, but she
was not complaining
Mrs. Hyde described the appearance
of Margaret's arm when she saw it
three days afterwards. She said it was
swollen above the elbow.
Nurse Was Absent.
On December 5, at about 2 o'clock,