Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-11

ed on bond of $4,000. His pre-
liminary hearing was set for Febru,
airy II.
, The .calmest man in the Justices
office in independence was DR.. Hyde
While attorneys busted themselves
making out the papers in the case
and while the few spectators whis.
; pered loudly and We'd with one an
other for view of the accused ply
sician, he sat near County Marshal
Joel Mayes, who made the arrest
and read a paper that told of the de-
velopments in the Swope investiga-
ton.
"By the way Mr.. Mayes" he said
folding up the paper, Il wish you
would call up my house and have my
wife informed that l will be home
for dinner. She will be worried
about me-
Just as soon as the bond was &C.
cepted, Dr.. Hyde hurried to his home
in an automobile. =
The arrest followed quickly after
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Judge Ralph S. Latshaw called a
grand jury today to investigate the
death of Colonel Swope. Prosecu-
tor Conkling made request for a
jury.
BY dismissing his libel suit for
100000 against Attorney John G..
Paxton, DR.. Frank l.. Hall and DR..
Edward J. Stewart today, DR.. Hyde
removed himself from the range of
the attorneys who have been using
every legal means known to them to
get his dispositions in the case. One
suit for 100000 is still pending
against Attorney John G. Paxton. 1t
alleges SANDER.
| Kansas City, Feb. 1O.-The death
of Colonel Thomas H. SWope on Oc-
tober 3, last, was attended by cir
cumstances which mystified the mil
lionaire's family and close friends.
Dr. Hyde who had treated Colonel
Swope during his last hours, signed
the death certificate, giving apop-
lexy as the cause of his death.
When in December an epidemic of
typhoid fever ragged in the Swope
household, during which eight per-
sons were stricken and one Chris
man Swope, died, under conditions
that caused much apprehension
among the attending nurses, John G.
Paxton, the executor, and Mrs. Log
an Swope, mother of Chrisman, in
stituted a vigorous investigation.
! Dr. Edward L. Stewart came for
| ward with the statement that on
November TO- DR.. Hyde had secured
from him an active typhoid culture.
After Dr.. Stewart had divulged this
information, DR.. Hyde was placed
under constant surveillance of de-
tectives.
DR.. Stewart in telling his story to
the attorneys of the Swope estate
and to Prosecutor Conkling explain
ed that a TYPHOID culture consisted
of a test tube filled with a media
on which the typhoid bacteria lived.
This media was covered with
healthy growth of bacteria. The test
tube given DR.. Hyde, he said, con-
tanned an algai media and millions
of the minute typhoid bacteria.
After it was decided that the bod
les of Colonel Swope and Chrisman
Swope should be disinterred, Mr..
Paxton and"Mrs. Logan Swope recall
ed DR.. Hyde insistence that he be
permitted to act as physician for the
family, although DR.. G.. T.. Twyman
had for years served in that capacity.
DR.. Hyde prescribed for Colonel
Swope during the latter's illness.
The patient was given digestive
capsule OH October 3. Twenty min
utes later while reading a newspap-
er he went into commissions. His
neck and limbs stiffened and he
groaned in great pain. He rallied
long enough to say: II wish 1 had
not taken that medicine"
Then with great effort the dying
man gasped; II wish I were dead"
He died few minutes later.
Miss Keller, nurse, said the pa
tients face was pale throughout and
that she was amazed upon hearing
the malady had been diagnosed as
apoplexy.
Later the body of Chrisman Swope
was secretly exhumed and that Of
Colonel Swope was taken from it's
tomb.
After an autopsy had been held,
the stOmachs of the two dead men
were forwarded to Chicago and ana
lyzed by Doctors Haine, Hektoen
and Vaughan.
| DR.. Hyde in statement made soon
after the investigation begun said:
Colonel Swope died of apoplexy.
There is not a doubt about it. It
was a plain case of apoplexy as I
have ever seen. Colonel Swope was
getting old and feeble. He had been
sick for more than three months
of old age, lack of appetite and SEN
atty. Only a few weeks before his
death he had had severe fall"
DR.. Bennett Clarke Hyde is the
son of Rev. DR.. G. w. Hyde, a re.
tired Baptist minister of Lexington,
Mo. DR.. Hyde was born near Bunce-
ton, Mo-, 10 years ago.
DR.. Hyde's name has previously
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figured before the public. In 1897,
DR.. Hyde, then police surgeon of
Kansas City, was ousted from office
because of alleged inhumane treat,
ment of Annie Clements, a negress