Show MURDER TRIAL MAY END BY SATURDAY After Long of Dr B C 0 Hyde Accused of Poisoning the Swope Family the Defense Rests Its Case PROSECUTION TRIES TO CONFUSE WITNESS Defendant However Answers Most of the Questions With Without Without Without out Embarrassment But With Some Heat at Times ADMONISHED BY COURT i ANSAS SAS City May JIny 10 At the close dOlle K I of ot a long and arduous I of Dr II C Hyde by byI I Virgil late Inte today he the defense defence In the Swope murder trial rested reeled TIle The case ease will be lit Iu the hands c cof of the jury by Saturday It IK Is thought Dr Hyde llyde was vent Ta on the witness stand almost the entire day Brecklein of whom Thorn he had purchased cyanide in the theten theten ten years earN the said Bald he be had bad used It was wan 0 regarded l Joy by y the tate as os nathe the most inot valuable de development of the interrogation Dr Hyde began bel n to pur purchase chase cyanide of Brecklein last Int fall fuJi The state laid great stress on the fact that Dr Hyde H de obtained more than WO culture tubes for the reception of or germs The defense d contends this only proves the physicians assertion that he was stocking up for a laboratory Prosecutor Conkling produced the culture lube tube Dr Stewart Is said to have taken from Dr Hydes office and asked the physician how many man tests he had made with germs from the tube One if that is the tube ube taken an answered answered answered the witness But there are enough germs in this tube to make tests I believe sug suggested suggested suggested the prosecutor There might be enough for one or more The physician said s id he e had disturb ed some orthe of the germs in ine rv t typhoid tube he got from Dr Stewart Never Neer said the witness did lie make any an ex cx experiment pe with the diphtheria germs These germs Dr Stewart had testified had been disturbed when he found it itin itin in Iii Dr Hydes office Asked to Explain Stress was laid by b the prosecutor upon the that Dr Hyde made but few experiments yet he purchased the culture tubes in large Jarge quantities Asked to explain why he bought so many tubes the fie physician said he could vouchsafe nj n explanation except that he wanted enough of them to last Jast him for two or three years ears Mr Conkling called attention to ty typhoid typhoid typhoid breaking out in the Swope house within a few tew da days s 5 after his purchase of some of the culture tubes Oh there was an earthquake In the West Indies about that time too an answered answered answered Dr Hyde Admonished Dr Hyde H de you are admonished to answer the questions of the prose prosecutor prosecutor prosecutOr said Judge Latshaw sharply When you and Dr Perkins and Dr Hall went zent ent to the Swope residence to look for the th source of the epidemic why you mention you had been mak ing experiments with typhoid germs asked Mr Conkling There was no chance for me to com corn communicate communicate any nJ of or the germs to that household There was no connection between the germs In my office and the epidemic in the Swope residence Dr Hyde Hyte replied T The Tte e witness declared he had no rec recollection recollection I of Huge Breckle n sending for him to come to his store and get cyan I ide in hi person On direct examination Dr Hyde said he never poisoned any an members of the Swope family famil that he never dropped capsules in a street in Independence as Thomas H Swope Jr claimed to t have seen him do that he used cyanide c anide mainly for killing bugs in his office and that lie he injected ted oil and that alone in Margaret Swope arm |