Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-05-05
A Victory for the Defense.

CoDridge. negro servant. The witness
admitted on cross-examinaticn that
her sister Carrie had typhoid fever
early in the spring Of 1909. She fur
Their admitted that wien she, LeonOra,
was Ill with typhoid last December she
was cared for by her mother. who, at
the same. for two or three days,
cooked in the Swope homo. Her
mother slept in the negro cabin at this
time.
"The epidemic in the Swope home
resembled n scientific experiment
rather thar n natural infection and I
told Mrs. Swope so"
DR.. Frank Hall testified in these
words in the trial of DR., b. Clark
Hyde. lie was telling about his in
v~estigation into the cause of the
typhoid fever epidemic In the SwOpo
home last December.
No Natural Couse Of Death.
DR.. Hall further testified that after
a careful examination of the organs OF
Thomas II. Swope he felt he could say
there was nothing about them to indi-
cate that there was a natural cause Of
death.
The fact that the brain was frozen
when It was cut into for the autopsy
facilitated the examination, said DR..
Hall, aud there was no evidence of
apoplexy. Dr. Hail said on cross ex.
animation that DR.. Ludwig Hektoen
had crushed the skull with his hands
in attempting to get at the brain.
II ,.,, ,,t;,,1v tn,hrt,,J thz ,~1.o
examination, Attorney Walsh striving
to show that Col. Swope was physical.
ly broken down before death came to
him.
Selected casket Before Death.
On the day before Thomas II. Swope
died. the matter Of a casket for him
to be patterned after the one being
used in the interment of James Moss
Hunton. was preached to a member OF
the OFT undertaking firm.
Ruby ID. Mitchell, an undertaken,
testified to that fact but he did not
get very far with 1t before the attor.
ncys for DR.. G. Clark Hyde put in
an objection.
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
Henry Jost did, though, get enough of
the story from Mr.. Mitchell to indi-
cate that the casket was being con.
sidered because Mrs. Hyde said her
husband. the doctor, did not think Col.
Swope would live.
Kansas City, May 2.-Answcring
hypothetical questions relating to the
deaths Of Col. Thomas II. Swope and
Chrisman Swopc, Doctor Ludwig HEX
toen, the Chicago pathologist, said in
the criminal court that in his opinion
both men died from the effects Of
some convulsive and p~aralyzing poi
SON.. Cyanide OF potassium, testified
the scientist, was such a drug.
Doctor IlektOen vas called at ten
O'Clock. Every head in the courtroom
was turned toward him as he entered.
A clean cut, clear-eyed, specialized.
plainly CARRIED man of science, he
stepped briskly to the witness chair,
held up his right hand and ooh the
oath, arranged a little pile of papers
on the chair arm, seated himself and
looked squarely at J. II. Atwood for
the states first question.
Nothing about the vital organs OF
either of the SwOpcs. upon each of
whom Doctor Hektoen performed au.
tOpsics, suggested death had resulted
from natural causes, the expert said.
He was positive, he testified, that Colo
mel SwOpe did not die from apoplexy
nor Chrisman SwOpe from meningitis.
Doctor Hektoen made no chemical
analysis in the course Of his investiga-
tions, and, hence, gave no direct tcsti-
mony relating TO the alleged finding OF
poison in the bodies.
When Mr.. Walsh asked DR.. Hektoen
If it were not true that DR.. f. +.
Smith of New York cit" and DR..
Cross, the city chemist of Kansas City,
as representatives OF DR.. Hyde, had
Haines for a portion of the viscera of
Col. Swope and Chrisman Swope. A
storm of objection was made by the
state which resulted in arguments that
lasted until court adjourned.
Judge Makes Suggestion.
At the conclusion of the arguments
Judge Latshaw made the suggestion
that there was but little law on the
subject so far as he knew and that he
would like to sec the little that Is on
the subject. He declared that a de-
mand should have been made by the
defense on the state for the privilege
Of inspecting and examining parts of