The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-29
When First Arrested He Was
Allowed Quarters in the
Hospital Ward and Had No
Complaint Against Keepers.
NOW HE IS IN WITH ALL
KINDS OF CRIMINALS
Objections Raised by the De-
Tense During the Examina-
ton of Witnesses Causes
Remarks by Judge LatShaw.
EVIDENCE THEN PUT IN

II ANSAs CITY, April 2s.-It was
n with the hope that DIR. Hyde
would be purged Of all suspicion
That John G. Paxton, as n DeFsonaI rem
EesentatiVe of Mrs. Logan y. SwOpe,
began the investigation OF the ssvope
tragedies, he testified in the criminal
court today
81 knew the terrible scandal any
Other report regarding the inquiry
would cause he said. sWheu 1 em-
piGyed Or. Ludwig HektOen 20 examine
TIE ViSceFa Of Colonel Thomas II. ana
ChFisman SWOPes 1 told him l hoped
ne would find everyone innocent"
During the entire afternoon session
attorneys tried to prove that Mr. Pax
ton harbOred malice against DR.. HYDE
when he began his Investigation. Mr.
Paxton disciaimed that he did. When
DIT. Hyde was ordered from the Swops
nome on December Is, said Mr.. Paxton,
ne sh0ok hands with the physician. Dr.
ana Mrs. Hyde laughed heartily when
Mr.. Paxton told about his emplOvinu
detectives. Asked why he employed the
sleuths, he said;
TO shadow Or. Hyde and prevent
him from escaping
Mr.. Paxton and Attorney Walsh ex-
changed warm comments during the
examination of the witness. Mr.
Walsh insisted upon knowing how
much money the witness got for ais
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with casting aspersiOns on his hon
esty.
''As an attorney is paid, so proper
uonateiy Will he work on his case"
was Air Walsh's comment
Calling attention to the fact that the
defense had served a subpoena duces
teCum on Dir. Paxton ordering him TO
produce the papers which passed be-
tween him and the scientists who made
the autopsy on Colonel and ChTisman
SWOpe, Mr.. Walsh asked the court to
force Tne witness to give them TO DR..
Hyde's attorneys Judge Latshaw re-
fused the request and remarked:
III all the states evidence were TO
be turned over TO the defense in criminal
cases, you might as well lock the front
doors of the jails and open the back:
From behind the bars of his cell In
the county jail DF. B. g. Hyde this
morning looked upon a scene that was
new and strange to him. All about
him were common prisoners. In the
same tier Of cells with him were drunk
ards, thieves and robbers.
Dr. Hyde was in jail once before, on
March Z. But he was only in the hos
pttal ward then. His room was large,
rOOmy and airy. There were four win
dOWs in il. tie could walk about and
exercise himself. No one was in the
apartment to bother him. That time
he did not mind his Incarceration.
Today DR.. Hyde made no objection
to his quarters. But when an attend
ant NdlAE ~ Tic pig cltAul = EElt Win
a tin plate, covered with bread, ana
a cup Of coffee, the prisoner refused
the food and turned away with a wan
smtl. One of DR. Hyde's friends sent
him a breakfast from hotel.
Jail attaches said that the physician
slept well last night. He turned out
his light with the rest of the inmates
at the Jail at $3.50 o'clock, and retired
TO his cot.
The revocation of DR.. Hyde's bond by
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