The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-03-20
NINE JURORS WOULD
ACQUIT DIR. b. c. HYDE.

NINE JURORS WOULD
ACQUIT DIR. B. G. HYDE
Jury, Hopelessly Disagreed, IL Dis
charged After Nearly Four Days
| Deliberations.
Kansas City, NO., March 1.-THE
Jury in the case of DR.. B. Clark Hyde
charged with the murder of Colone
Thomas H. Swope, was discharged
at 1895 o'clock this afternoon by
Judge Porterfield, after having vainly
tried for Sc hours and IS minutes to
reach a verdict.
The jury stood nine for acquittal
and three for.conviction.
The first ballots stood seven for
conviction, five for acquittal. This
vote remained unchanged until Fri
day night, when there was a reversal
to nine for acquittal and three for
canviction. Since then until the dis
charge today there had been no
change.
Foreman For Acquittal.
William A. Hester, an electrician,
"a years of age and married, one of
the jurors, said after leaving the
courtroom:
"Hiram F. Haussler, Harry E.
Clark and myself never would have
given in for acquittal. Elvin F.
Wirth, the foreman, led for acquit-
tal."
Wirth is farmer, 48 years of age I
and married. In all fourteen ballots
were taken.
DR.. Hyde made this statement:
~ have been confident of acquittal.
However, l shall stay right here in
Kansas City and strive for my ulti-
nate vindication. Of course I'm
compelled to take what has come and
oear up the best | cam"
Mrs. Hyde, who has stood by her
husband so staunchly, although sep
rated from her mother, Mrs. Logan
}. Swope, who furnished much of /
he money to prosecute the case,
bowed plainly her disappointment
yer the result.
Wife Remains Staunch. =
II cannot see" said she, "why the
Try did not acquit my husband. l 1
bought had explained away every
ling, but there< were so many OBJ b
'ctions by the lawyers that perhaps
" testimony did not seem as clear Il
this jury as it did to me. If could t,
and before the jury for half an hour
nd tell them my own story I'm sure s.
lr troubles would be at an end. My
elief in my husbands innocence is s.
lore than mere belief. It is first
and knowledge. | was there and 8
card and saw everything. Neither
as | sick or hysterical. Clark and s.
should be allowed, without lawyers
urt or jury marring our happiness 81
live in peace and contentment, to
1ich we now entitled" bl
Foreman Wirth said:
1.-THE jury did their best. They -
'rked hard with some hope of out
me until Friday night. We took 9,
: last ballot just before being taken
o court today. We took fourteen B,
lots in all.
Facts About the Hyde Trials. 80
The jury that disagreed in the DR..
c. Hyde case was chosen January oil
after two weeks examination of
liremen. The trial just ended 10
S in progress fifty-nine days when
EN- to the jury at 10 o'clock Tues SET
: night.
thomas H. SWope, the millionaire bill
lanthropist, for whose murder
de was tried, died October 3, 1909.
iyde was arrested February 10, ,
0, and indicted March 6 on eleven spe
nts, including charges of murder del
the Swope family. W.
his was the third Hyde trial. He 8,
convicted of first degree murder ty,
rider on the first trial, which last at
thirty-six days, ending May 16, mo
D. The jury fixed punishment at he
Imprisonment. It was reversed OH
he Supreme Court. 30.
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