Show KILLED BY CAPSULE CLAIMS THE NURSE NURS p IJ I l j lj I I II i L LI I A At t T i I I i I DR B C HYDE CASE CAS lOOMING UP Sensational Testimony Given at Coroners Inquest Con Concerning Concerning Concerning Last Moments of the Kansas City Millionaire DR HYDE PRESENT AND DEEPLY INTERESTED Chicago Specialist Testified lS to Presence of Strychnine 1 the Liver in Quite a Consid Coni Considerable erable and Deadly Amou I EVIDENCE OF DRUGGIST I Kansas City Feb 8 With the I testimony of Miss Kiss Pearl Kellar a aI aI aI I nurse of Dr Ludwig Hektoen of ij f Mrs Logan H Swope and of Dr Dri i Frank Hall in the inquest over the th body of the late Col Co Thomas Swope in HI Independence today came devel deve i in lit ll the mystery of the mil mu death more startling than i any fact heretofore adduced I Miss Mits s detailed story of or lb i iI t I moments of Colonel Sup 1 life i m with startling Hartling features of happen i i 1 ithe I thy the th Swope household produced a alion aI d lion I loll So carefully had her St I i 1 1 that thit although much mui ii has ha Ii I I t 1 mitten and arid rumored about the a e i until today had any an one on outside 11 I i circle interested in the illi 5 hearth heard her narrative Miss il Kellar testified that imm ImIn l t following the death of Colonel Ti r 4 t Moss Hunton Dr B C e Hyde BIlk ask a 1 J to tu use her influence with Colonel 1 to 10 t have him appointed IM t I Ih the h Swope estate Mr Hunton hud had I Ithe the administrator On the morning of Colonel R t 1 s death she aims gave gae him a supposed to contain dyspepsia mei nm i I This she Bhe did at the direction of Di Dr I s II I i iI I Twenty Tw nty minutes later Colonel gw r rin in a convulsion nullon I His death soon lol i 1 01 Hyde Took the Will FV Fly Fi minutes after altEr S s 8 death Dr Hyde appeared a and wit w it torney John G Paxton Pax ton took L will from his hi vest est pocket pock t Dr Hektoen testified that of a grain of j 1 found in h part pari of I m liver He believed bell ed there thor in inbe be a grain in tn the entire organ IK Ti II grain would cause death Tra ra strychnine str were found in the stoin Stein Strychnine might have hae been i into the body bod after death deathIe He Ie did not believe bellee the taking or f T cine eine containing strychnine would le i much as all a grain of the poison in hI tt ii t h 1 I IMn Mrs Mn Swope testified that Dr I Dr r J i i 5 3 knew kno w of Colonel S Intention i i 1 to charity chanty and of hiM hia pia lai change his will ill to this thi effect t Sue 81 a Ii said that Colonel Swope had tM 1 j i Hyde he had planned to give I 11 i Swope the largest part of his estate esta denied de n I she entertained any iii against Dr Hyde H de Did Net Not Die of Apoplexy Dr Frank Hall Hail aid he hf was Mas all ale ahn certain Colonel Swope did not Dot die Ik si t n I cerebral hemorrhage or r O 0 H II Gentry Gento a of IUd hum dence denee said as Id he prepared the thO I I ic med medi ne i Colonel Swope that contained r Ii s siron iron quinine and strychnine The st v nine in a teaspoonful amounted i ione t tone one onehundred and eightieth of a g IM he said Dr Hyde H e was wa again present at am a t quest today anti and heard eer word woul f r t timon Especially E did be he follow t of or MI 1118 Kellar closely Kt Ii H gave ga e no sign that her narrative e pH pi t I i In the th l least a t tIn In the tense moments when hen Mi Miss li K I described d the dying i of f j Swope Sope jurors juron and f wand less ward and listened eagerly to ever ee r v a She told in detail how ho she h gave gae t j ja i ia i ia a capsule and how ho he passed pad into While hill unconscious he ii h f fOh Oh my amy m God i wish I had not tak f medicine I wish that I were pre ert d I Mi Keller r also alao said Rid that Di Le I suggested to her he that she ought l to to i t 1 35 instead of 0 K 52 a week tEk for her he i After she Bhe had most O 1 of t 1 mon mom and anel t e s room ruoni was wa quiet I t Vii t il H II ke ed I her herl Do l you xon 11 know 1 iia tl that thai ai 1111 me n PI Continued on Page Two KillED BY CAPSUlE ClAIMS THE NURSE Continued from Page One caused Colonel Colon l death other than that capsule I do not she replied d firmly Supported by Affidavits The report made by b Dr Hektoen on the liver was supported d by h affidavits from Drs Walter alter S Haines and Victor C Vaughn The report on the condition of the stomach was given verbally by b Dr Hektoen He said the examination of the organs of the body hody had not been en completed A question that may have great bear hear hearIng Ing ng on the case was asked by a juryman In n the afternoon It was Could the body absorb strychnine str that had lad been injected after death Yes Dr Hektoen replied If strychnine strychnine nine had been en injected after death and th the body had lain for a long time the poison jolson could have leave found its way to other parts arts of the body bod through diffusion strychnine would have to be in solution for or that and it would spread through the tissues Coroner Swart then asked Dr Hektoen If f it would be possible In view of the theart fact art that the body of Colonel Swope had been beau frozen to have Injected strychnine str after death loath so that It would leave have been heen diffused through the system s stem Dr Hek Ilek Hektoen teen toen said that It would not Mrs Swope told of the many man eccentricities ties of Colonel Colon Swope She SIte said ho had thought bought thou ht for 26 25 years yeats arS that lila hla death deith was Imminent t tI I 1 am the same as a dead man she testified that he once said to a relative Im Im just walking around to save savo fun funeral funeral eral end expenses |