Semi-weekly herald., 1910-05-09

drafting and debydrating ferments in
combination with poisons taken medic
inally, and that the poisons may have
been injected into the bodies after
death, that the typhoid epidemic was
due to the previous Illness OF negro
servants on the Swope premises. DR.
Hyde used cyanide to poison cock
reaches In his operating room. He
used the typhoid germs to experiment
in vaccination.
The defense began by calling to the
stand DIR. j. w. Spangler, who. for
several years. was Colonel Swope s
confidential man. Spangler testified
that Swope drank to excess every day
up to eleven months before his death
He collapsed and swooned in his Office
frequently. and strong stimulanls were
necessary to revive him. The mil.
lionaire was "A user of patent medicine
and remedies containing strychnine,
said SpaDgler. Il may be here day
or week. but / cant last long; I'm
liable 10 die at any minute" Mr.. Span
gler said Colonel Swope told him the
day before he died
Prosecutor Conklin made an inef.
fective attempt to show that Colonel
Swope objected to Hyde marrying
Frances Swope, but the testimony was
barred. After the marriage, It was
shown, the millionaire gave property
valued at $4,000 to the defendant.
NEW YORK, May 5.-Astounded by
the confession of Harry Levinson,
master of white slaves, District Attor-
ney Whitman's entire staff is engaged
today in rounding up evidence that
will probably result in numerous ar
rests.
AT the same time the district at
torney will raid several stockades
where white slaves are kept on exhi-
bition for prospective purchasers and
from which they are sent, guileless
and innocent, to life of shame and
death At least three men and three
women have been named by Levinson
as conducting these stockades where
human ware is shown and sold. Lev
inson's attorney admitted today his
client had not told all His future
revelations, it is expected, will exceed
those of yesterday in their graphic
brutality.
Whitman is determined 10 find the
men and women higher up in the
organized band of white slave traders.
To this end he is today obtaining the
names of wealthy owners of property
in which these white slave stockades
are located. and he declares he will
prosecute them for leasing their prop
erty for such purposes. Men and WON.
en- of business and social prominence
are said to be violating the law which
prohibits the leasing of houses for dis
orderly resorts.
That the crusade is bound to put
an end to the terrible traffic in girls
is predicted by Edward Carpet, Levin
sons attorney, who urged his client to
plead guilty and. turn states evidence.
in the hope that the white slave bust
ness might be terminated,
NEW YORK, May 5.-Although un-
official estimates of the worth of May
o. Gaynor's plan of enforcing the
liquor laws on Sunday have varied,
Frederick w. Steele of the state ex-
else department. thinks saloon keep
ers are more law abiding than at any
time in nearly fifteen years and that
the city is dryer than at any time
during that period In a letter ad-
dressed to the mayor Mr.. Steele says:
Il want you TO know that a number
OF our special agents have reported to
me that never in their experience
since the liquor tax law was enacted
have they seen such effort to comply
with the law on the part of liquor deal
ers as during the last two Sundays
CAIRO, Egypt. May 5.-The nation.
alist movement in Egypt still lives
despite the visit of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt and his excoriation to its
members and his appeal for law and
order
Writing in the Egyptian Gazette
Mohammed Kammei. the well known
Egyptian revoutionist, says:
Time for action has come. The
means of action. however violent, win
be nobler than this deadly silence and
cowardice. But terrorism by itseli
does no good 1t must be backed by
force which can profit from sacrifice. u
SAN JOSE. Costa Rica. May g.
More than four hundred bodies were
taken from the ruins of the city o,
Carriage, which was destroyed by the
earthquake of Wednesday night. ac-
cording 10 messages received here to
day II is believed the death list will
reach one-third the population. as ev.
cry house in Cartago was demolished
Appeals for aid have been sent to
Nicaragua and all South and Cent al
American republics.
The bodies We're recovered late yes.
terday. II is now feared that in addi.
tion TO the destruction OF the city of