New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-06
DR.. HYDE INDICTED
WHOLESALE POISON
ING PLOT CHARGED.
Mrs. Logan 0. Scope Tells Sc
crets of Her Household-Says
Hyde Tried to Poison Her.

Kansas City. No, March 5--Dr- B
Clarke Hyde husband of niece OF the
late Thomas H. Swope. was indicted to-
night on thirteen counts in eleven in
dictments returned by the grand jury
that has been investigating the Swope
mystery for the last three weeks.
Two indictments charge first degree
murder in connection with the deaths OF
Colonel Swope and of Chrisman Swope
DR.. Hyde is alleged to have given them
strychnine tablets. One Indictment ac-
cuses Dr. Hyde of manslaughter by
bleeding James Moss Hunton. a cousin
of Colonel Swope, in a neglectful man
ner.
Perhaps the most surprising of all the
indictments returned are the eight in
connection with the alleged poisoning
of the Swope family and visitors and at
tendants of the Swope household. DR..
Hyde is accused in these indictments.
which contain ten counts, of poisoning
with typhoid germs. with intent to mur-
der Margaret SWope. Stella Swope.
Sarah Swope, Lucy Lee Swope. Nora
Bell Dickson, Georgia F. Compton, Mil
dred Fox and Leonora Copridge. a
negro girl All these persons were
stricken with typhoid fever while DR..
Hyde was attending the swope family
Typhoid Germ Charqe.
Three counts In the Indictment charge
the poisoning of Miss Margaret Swope.
The first count charges that he at
tempted TO poison her by administering
typhoid fever germs on or about Novem-
ber %. The second accuses him of try
ing to poison her by giving a hypodermic
injection on December II. In the third
count he is alleged to have attempted
poisoning on December IS by giving her
Strychnine and other pOisons
Capiases for the arrest OF DR. HYDE
will not be issued until Monday He is
at present under a $4,000 bond in con-
nection with the case now pending
against him in Justice Loears court in
Independence, charging him with the
murder of Colonel Swope Prosecutor
Virgil Conkling said that as soon as DR.
Hyde is arrested on the charges brought
by the grand jury the case in the Inde-
pendence court will be dismissed.
In written statement, given out at
his home tonight, DR.. Hyde asserts his
innocence OF the charges.
Mrs Swope's Story.
Disregarding the advice of her attor-
neys, RS. Logan o. Swope laid bare
while giving her deposition in the SLAM
d, suit of her son-in-law. DR. B. c.
Hyde, to-day the secrets OF her house
hold for many years.
With tears coursing down her cheeks
and shouting her story, she repeatedly
rose from the witness chair IN her ex-
citement She told the story of the
courtship of DR.. Hyde; how she tried TO
like him as her son-in-iaW. of her belief
that he had attempted to murder her
relatives and at one time tried to poison
her.
The charge that Or. Hyde tried to
poison Mrs SWope is a new feature il
the case.
ION December u last he brought me
a glass OF water that tasted bitter" she
said. Il drank some of 1t. and, noticing
the peculiar taste. asked him where he
got it.
'''Out OF the water cooler he replied
=" He is trying to poison you. mother
said one of my daughters.
II demanded that he give me an emet-
ic This probably saved my life"
Mrs. Swope's story Of the occurrences
that led up to the discharge Of Dr. hyde