Show TOOK POISON IN MEDICINE Presence of Strychnine in Vi Vital Vital Vital tal Organs of Col Swope Ac Accounted Accounted Accounted counted for in Testimony of Witness Who Attended Him MILLIONAIRE HAD THE PATENT NOSTRUM HABIT Inquest Opened at Independence ence Mo with Dr Hyde and Several Members of the Family Taking Active Part Parti PartiNO NO SIGN OF RECOGNITION Kansas City Feb 7 That Colonel Thomas H it Swope the millionaire whose death on Oct 3 has been the subject of a diligent inquiry for the thelast thelast last month to determine if he died thea from poisoning took a patent medi medicine medicine cine containing tonic of iron quinine I and strychnine up to a few days of i his death developed at the inquest j jover over his body in Independence Mo i today i Ibis TIMS testimony was given ghen by Miss liss Pearl Ki J In ik Colonel nurse It was tl tit th t most significant piece of evidence b bought ought out in the inquest which opened Miss Keller eIter cared for Colonel Swope frou September 12 until the day of ot his death She testified that the millionaire took the mixture daily dally in iii addition to toO the truent given him by hi Dr C B Hyde H e el Previously l in a deposition taken in a ada da suit of or B C Hyde against an at trUl y and an two physicians who ho are in interested in the Swope investigation S SV Sv V v Spangler office partner of Colonel SWOpE testified that Colonel Swope SWoOpe took tooka n a aUnt att nt medicine containing strychnine 1 at his office It is supposed that t tj 1 is the same mixture to which Miss K referred in her testimony Mr Ir said Colonel Swope S OI took large C utilities of the medicine daily dail of Poison say that the fact of Colonel Swo wone e having taken much of this con eon cont t cinn would explain the presence of i si son sIn n in his vital organs oran It is also u out that Colonel Swope was in ini i weakened condition when hen he last took U 1 r C medicine m i witnesses besides s Miss Keller tes tea tesi i 4 i J 1 during the da day They were ere Dr Dri i warl L Stewart Steart Dr G Ci T F Twyman V testified regarding the autopsy and J r rs s Craig R It B Mitchell W F Stine 11 1 l S Coak Coat anti and Thomas L Nicholas all C told of oC the burial of Colonel Colonels s in bod Dr Stewart said ald that v It k I lie ii 11 had no in the autopsy i t ter ci than writing down lown the tile records he hec ew c that no hemorrhage of the brain braine e l bl ile to t the naked eye ee was found Colo Cob Color 1 i r I Swope was supposed ed to have died tiled from I py 4 Swope Family in Court tailing of the inquest today toda i g gt git it together to ther for the first time in inc c at ll weeks members of oC the Swope and ami Dr B n C Hyde Mrs Irs Lo Loir Lon LoH ir n Swope Sope and her daughters Miss 8 v Leo Lee Lt Swope Miss lIss Sarah Swope and andr r Margaret Swope sat eat on one side til t room with their attorneys while J I II Il tie Je and his attorneys were on the i 1 There was no sign of the two parties Mrs Irs j I 1 it ft l was as not present Her Tier husband ex exi i ii i 1 that she was too ill III to attend T us the day Mrs Irs Swope ope and Miss liss K R i ir v r were wert served s with subpoenas by an ant t t y from the office of Frank P PA A Dr Hydes counsel to appear 1 give ghe their depositions in the libel i itS ts brought orough by Dr Hyde against At Att t tt li t u JJ Y Y John G Paxton Dr Frank Hall halt r rl 1 Dr Edward Edard L Stewart Attorneys 1 I n v been attempting to serve the sub nis naS for a week The women readily service Dr Hydes Suits Iw I Hyde filed flied suit for for al 1 oil slander against Attorney John G Gi i 1 today toda and service was wag obtained i 1 mn Pt rI the attorney at the inquest V suit against Mr Paxton Paton was c c nn ed by Dr Hyde In order to keep I 1 I I from giving his deposition df before the theist thet I Ii i t 1 st begin began over oer the body of Colone Sk IM lis Ii Keller testified regarding the ac t s q of jf Colonel Swope Sope when his hili old oki or r rd il Thomas Moss fOIlS Hunton died from two to da di s before the million millions 4 B s I death fi r ir blow lm of his lila friends deAth dath grieved I nel r el Swope greatly and he 00 went into 0 for tOI hours refusing to see any an but Mr fro Spunkier his financial 0 rt n |