Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-02-11
Physician Comes to Prosecutors
Office, Where it is Served.
HEARING AT INDEPENDENCE
Bail is Fixed at $4,000 at Sugges-
tion of State.
GRAND JURY TO TAKE THE CASE
Court Calls Special Venire TO Make
Thorough Investigation of the
Whole Mystery of Deaths
and sickness.
BULLETIN.


KANSAS CITY, Feb 1O.-Prosecutor
Conkllng and Mr.. Paxton reached Kansas
city at 4 O'Clock and found DIR. Hyde and
the latter's attorneys awaiting them in
the prosecutors office. The party at once
repaired to the marshals office. There
the warrant was served upon Hyde After
a few preliminaries the party started for
Independence, where II was intended to
arraign Hyde Immediately before Justice
Loar and arrange the matter of bond. In
consideration of DR.. Hydes action in sur
rendering and the fact that the grand jury
is to investigate Prosecutor Conkling
agreed to fix the bond at S25. 900
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 10-A climax in the
Swope mystery came late this afternoon
when John G. Paxton. the family coun-
sellor. filed an information at the office of
the county prosecutor formally charging
DR.. Bennett Clarke Hyde with murder in
the first degree, holding him responsible
for the death OF Colonel Thomas II. Swope.
warrant for the arrest of DR.. b. G.
Hyde, charged with the murder of Colonel
Swope was sworn to BY Prosecutor Conk-
ling at 3:l5 o'clock before Justice of the
Peace w. F. Loar at independence. 1t was
based upon information previously filed by
j. G. Paxton, charging murder in the first
degree. Mr.. Conkling then Immediately
started for Kansas City. ten miles away.
to serve the warrant.
In the meantime DR.. Hyde and his attor-
neys started for the prosecutors office to
| accept service.
Bail had been arranged for by Hyde and
it was considered probable that he would
be released promptly.
Grand Jury is Called.
Judge Ralph s. Latschaw or the criminal
court at noon today instructed the county
marshal to empanel a special grand jury
to convene Saturday morning at 10:30
o'clock to investigate the death Of Colonel
| Swope.
The grand jury investigation will go into
every phase of the Swope mystery. The
inquiry will not be confined to the death
Of Colonel Swope. but the death of Chris
man swope and the epidemic of illness in
the Swope household will be the subjects
Of an exhaustive investigation,
To thwart the efforts of the opposing at
torneys to secure the deposition of DIR. B.
C. Hyde, upon the order Of his attorneys
for an order of dismissal today, the circuit
court at independence, Mo-, today dis
missed the suit brought by DIR. Hyde de-
mandng 100000 from John G. Paxton and
other defendants for alleged libel Dr.
Hyde had been subpoenaed to give his
deposition in this suit today
Next Step Not Announced.
All persons connected with the case were
unwilling to be quoted on the probable ac-
tion that might be taken next, The diff
ferent sets of attorneys spent
the morning In secret conferences.
At the offices of Virgil Conkling,
the county prosecutor. and Coroner Zwart,
also, the case was gone into behind closed
doors. 1t was evident that some decisive
move was pending, put none In authority
would vouchsafe guess at to what the
next step would be.
The coroner, it was asserted, was plan
ming to hold the inquest over the body OF
Chrisman Swope as soon as the Chicago
chemists finished their examination of the
! organs of the nephew Of Colonel Thomas
! H. Swope.
This second inquest would be held, II
was said, regardless of what the prosecutor
might see fit to do.