The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-08

| had not and there was not anything
more said about it."
Sitting close behind his attorneys to-
day DR.. Hyde listened to the testimony.
At first his eyes were half closed and
his head was bowed. Later he raised
his head and watched the nurse closely.
The court room was quiet, more quiet
than any other time during the inquest.
In the closely crowded benches not d
person moved. The heads of the at
torneys were turned so that they might
not miss bit of the testimony
When Col. Swope Died.
Then Miss Kellar told of the scenes
at the Swope home on the morning that
Colonel Swope died.
'I was seated at the breakfast table
when DIR. Hyde came in Miss Keliar
said He asked me if Colonel Swope
had eaten and I told him that he had.
Then come with me- DIR. Hyde said.
and l left the table. The doctor told
digestive tablets and that he wanted
Colonel Swope to have one.
"I want him to have it right new he
told me. 1 got a fresh glass of water
and took 1t upstairs with me. When aS
we got there, DR.. Hyde stood near the
foot of the bed and took a capsule out
of small pink box he held in his hand.
He was standing at the foot of the bed.
as have said; but he was near Colonel
Swope'S head, because Colonel SWope
Miss Kellar waved her hand in
queer little way that made every one
in the court room laugh-every one
except DIR. B. c. Hyde. Not a change
came over his face.
81 believe that it was a three-grain
capsule" the nurse continued and
don't remember whether it was gray
or white. But l do remember that it
was not brownish in color"
Now give this to him. DIR. Hyde
Il
Colonel Swope to take the medicine.
But he wouldn't do it. 1 nodded my
head to DIR. Hyde as if to tell him
that Colonel Swope would take the
medicine after while, and so I put
the medicine and the glass down on
a table and we went downstairs.
Took Hyde's Medicine.
when 1 came up stairs again 1
asked Col. Swope if he would take the
medicine and he assented. Then he
took up one of the papers and told
me to read the others. Suddenly, a
peculiar breathing sound from the
bed caused me to look up. Colonel
Swope's face had changed, his eyes
were set and wild and the pupils were
dilated. Colonel Swope began to
tremble and the color of his face
commenced to change.
Swope! Col. Swope! What's the mat
ter; tell me!' But Col. Swope could
not answer me-" Miss Kellar was
leaning far over in her chair toward
Attorney Trogdon and her hands
trembled just a bit as she lifted and
lowered them to add expression to
her story. DR.. Hyde watched her
closely.
'tAnd then" Trogdon said.
Suddenly his eyes turned from the
window to the ceiling and the wide
open, dilated appearance was still
there. The coloneFs face was terribly
pallid and in that pallor there began
to creep a slight blueness.
From his throat there came pc
culiar sounds. and then the eyes be-
came expressionless. 1 ran to the
door and jerked it open. Mrs. Hyde
was just passing.
"'Run and tell DR.. Hyde to come
here quick 1 said. 1t appeared to
me that he was rather long in COM
ing, and so sent another call for him.
When he came upstairs he was in his
shirt sleeves and almost as soon as
he had examined Colonel Swope. he
said:
Called It Apoplexy.
at is apoplexy, brought on by the
death of Colonel Hunton.'
sit was just twenty minutes after
gave Colonel Swope the capsule that
the convulsion came on. When DR..
Hyde came he did not do anything for
Colonel Swope at first and then he
suggested that 1 give him a hypoder-
mic injection of one-sixtieth of a grain
of strychnine every fifteen minutes for
awhile.
after Dr. Hyde left the room
started to look for the box that had
contained the medicine. 1t wasn't
there.
'By this time Colonel Swope had
were half open and he was breathing g
with difficulty. I gave him another
dose of strychnine and after that 1
believe I gave him another Then DR..
Hyde came back into the room.
| "Once, just after the CONFUSION,
| Colonel Swope appeared to revive, and
| in that semi-conscious state he cried
"'Oh, my God; I wish had not taken
that medicine; 1 wish that I were
dead
about dinner time L noticed that in
convulsions Colonel Swope's legs had
become cramped at the knees and in
Strengthening them 1 saw that they
We're purple from the ankles to the
knees. Then I said to DR.. Hyde that
I would hate the consequences if Col
/ onel Swope should revive
why DR. Hyde asked me. and I
said: You know he connected this
attack with the medicine
"And what did DR.. Hyde say ?' At
torney Trogdon asked.
He Did Not Reply.
.He didn't say anything Miss Kel-
lar added. 'Along toward night DR..
Hyde and I both sat on the bed. taking
| Colonel Swopes pulse. DE-. Hyde kept
! saying that the colonel was failing
rapidly. I said that 1 couldn't see it
and DIR. Hyde left his side of the bed
and came to mine and took the pulse
1 had been taking. He said that he
could not feel the pulse. but l could
/ feel it. Soon after that l went to dim
ner and when 1 returned DR.. Hyde and
Mrs. Hyde were bending over the bed.
Mrs. Hyde turned to me when 1 came
| in.
Uncle Thomas has passed away.
Mrs. Hyde said to me. He died so
easily"
! When Miss Kellar finished recess
was taken. 1t was announced that