The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-10

were taken from beneath his head and
he then remarked. My God. 1 wish I
we're dead"
Did he utter any other sentence or
wcrd?''
mo. ne just repeated this sentence"
Did he utter the words or the
thought that he wished he had not ia
ken that medicine?'
He did not"
What did you do?"
81 examined his pulse and found 1t
weak. l told the nurse to give him
1-60 grain of strychnine nypodermically-
1 think he got four or FIVE injections
during tho day. This drug was indica-
ted by his weak pulse"
did you give him more than you
deemed absolutely necessary"
"I did not
How long were you in the room
that day?'
II was in the room almost all day.
Chrisman came in the room in the
morning.
When did you see Mr.. Paxton?''
Il saw him in the sitting room in
the morning"
did you talk with him about the
condition of Col. Swope?"
Il believe that / told him his condi-
ton was very serious @s1tTcci
''Wha. was the physical condition of
Col. Swope on his last day?"
1T changed from the Spasm in the
morning gradually. The snoring SEEM
ed to grow less and less all day and
his respiration became more shallow.
The insensipility deepened until it was
finally hard to tell whether he was with
US or not. My wife and 1 were with
him when the end came"
HE was 80 years old, L believe, and
his condition was known to you for a
year or more?"
Yes, but there was nothing in the
case which presented itself that indi-
Gated that he was suffering from any
thing other than apoplexy and old age"
Paxton Was There.
Mr.. Walsh then entered into the topic
of the will. He got from the witness
the fact that Mr.. Paxton had been in
and out of the house several times dur
ing the day and was in the sitting room
when Col Swope died.
Who spoke about the will?"
Mr. Paxton"
And then did you go into the room?"
II followed Mr.. Paxton"
'At whose suggestion was the will
obtained?"
IT walked into the sitting room and
said Col. Swope had just passed away"
Now is The time to get that pa
per-, he said. I asked him what paper
ard he said he was referring to Colonel
Swope's will. He said that it was in
side Col. Swope's vest pocket. When
we got init Col. Swopes room Mr. Pax
ton asked Miss Kellar to get him Col
Swope's vest and he then took the will
from the inside vest pocket, at the
same time asking her to witness the
act. L said nothing at all and follow
ed Mr.. Paxton into Lucy Lees. room,
where Mr.. Paxton asked Shall we
read it nova? While Mr. Paxton was
reading the WILL Mrs. Hyde came into
the room and he started over again.
Were you at the Swope home on
Sunday, November PIP"
mo; we had lunch at home and din
rer at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
NJ. Cleary."
when did you go there?"
Thanksgiving day, November %,
with my wife and Stuart S. Fleming.
We met him at the football game ana
cot there in the evening about $50 or
7 O'Clock p. m. We went upstairs to
the sitting room and were then called
to dinner
How long did you remain there?''
About two or three hours"
Did you place any typhoid germs
on anything in that house?''
81 did not
Where did you go?"
ITO my residence"
Did you ever have a conversation
with reference to you being made ex-
ecutor Of the estate of Col Swope?"
Yes, with my wife in the presence
OF Nurse Kel1ar after the death of Col
Swope."
Did Not Ask Nurse.
did you ever ask Miss Kellar after
the death of Mr. Hunton to use her
influence with Col. Swopo to have you
appointed executor of the estate of Col.
Swope?"
"I did not"
Dr. Hyde then told of treating Stella
Swope for tonsilitis. That was a year
or more ago. and he cut them out. He
" as then asked about his visit to the
swope home after his wife had been
called there to nurse her sister and
brother. He had been informed that DR..
Twyman had been there, he said, but
nat Chrisman would not have him that
Friday evening.
What was Chrisman's condition."
He had a temperature of 1922
did Margaret have a fever?"
yes, her fever was 103.''
did you give either patient treat
ment?'
II did not"
did you prescribe any medicine for
chrisnan or Margaret Swope?"
IT did not"