Show I THREE MURDERS AND EFFORT AT EIGHT 1 OTHERS I IS CHARGE G fAMOUS TRIAl BEGINS TODAY Ifa aa City Physician Is Ac Accused Acou cut ou d of Killing Un Uncle Uncle cle Her Two Cousins and Attempt on Eight Others MAN MAr WITH FOUR MILLIONS BRUTALLY DONE TO DEATH Injects Deadly typhoid Fever Germs Into Veins of His I Relatives Who i Barred Him From Fortune i COUNTRY WATCHING CASE CASEK KANSAS K ANSAS CITY April 10 Unless an unexpected hitch arises Dr B Clark Hyde will go on trial in the criminal court here tomorrow morn morning morning morning ing on a charge of murdering Colonel Thomas H Swope Attorneys for both the prosecution and the defense said positively to tonight ton tonight night n there would be he no delay in starting the trial None of the attorneys expects a jury I to be he obtained in less than a week Two hundred have been ordered to report tomorrow By the law of Missouri a body of who cannot be challenged for cause must first be selected The state then may exercise 15 per peremptory peremptory peremptory challenges and the defense 20 leaving the 12 men to act as jurors A large crowd croud is expected to attend t T l f trial trI Judge Latshaw will permit spectators to enter the room as aa long a as at at s 1 t ran can be found for In order t tat at every bit of available space may maybe IK be utilized the court has ha had bad three threeT T f c tables placed on his plat I rm and one reporter will win write his history f wry tory on the judges bench Forty two Witnesses Called Dr Hyde and his wife will be witnesses for the defense the physiC r C cans an s attorneys stated tonight Other than t giving out a short statement m in hi h h she expressed confidence in her husbands innocence Mrs Hyde has bas had little to do with the mystery m so 80 far witnesses have been called I V lf the prosecution No witnesses have trPO 1 subpoenaed by the defense Other charges against Dr Hyde are P degree murder for the killing of Chrisman Swope Colonel T H r phew manslaughter for the killing I o of Colonel Moss 1088 Hunton Colonel j pe pes s cousin tousin six charges of assault v th Ith intent to kill in connection with thc tb members of the Swope family and servants being stricken with typhoid fever the th germs alleged alleg to have been administered by b Dr Hyde On Or the th outcome of the present trial ct Cl of Dr Ir Hyde probably will depend the disposition of the other charges against him r Tilt history of the Swipe S e case is as dramatic as it is uneasily un lY and public interest his has never been so o keen since th tho famous Gunness tragedy 8 edy It was c klOber 3 last that Colonel TL rr Ima mas H Swope a T died very vary suddenly and under T Ti c Et t mysterious m circumstances fol 1 IH in ing ng a brief Illness The attend physician was 8 Dr B Clark H Hyl Hy 3 the of the dead mans mansi i lr I t C and he diagnosed the th cause of thC the death to apoplexy It de however that on the fatal day dayoc oc l Swope was feeling in good goo l Continued on Page Nine p f I 4 1 t yr I r T 4 S I 4 I I S I J I Is Ii r s i 4 1 j ji jI I I i I pt j Ei 7 4 3 1 r DR AND MRS B C HYDE Hyde is accused of the murder of his uncle and two of her er coils cousins cousins ins and anil of attempt to kill eight others of her family FAMOUS BEGINS TODAY Continued From Page One spirits spIris until after he had swallowed a capsule given him by Dr Hyde H He was seized with wih convulsions and ad on one hour later was dead Just two days day before the te colonels colonels death deat James Moss Hunton Huton his cousin and an executor o othe ot of the Swope will wi also died of apoplexy Left Lef Large Estate Colonel Swope left lef an estate esti estimated est estimated mated at the principal bene being bein the unmarried children of his Mrs Logan O 0 Swope To the married marled maried daughter Mrs tIrs rs Frances Prances Hyde wife of Dr Hyde h he left lef No suspicion was attached to the te colonels colonels death until unU December when an a epidemic of typhoid broke ou out in the Swope household Chrisman Swope a nephew of Colonel Colone Swope was the first to fall fal a victim constitution how however however however Possessing a i strong ever he seemed on a fair fall road to re recovery recover recovery covery cover when on December 2 he was wa suddenly attacked with wit convulsions am and became unconscious exactly as hi hl his uncle unde had done two months monts before He died on December 6 G GOther Other cases in the Swope household included Miss Margaret Swope Miss Corn Cora Cor DIckson Dickon governess Miss Mss Coppage a colored servant Steward S Fleming a nephew of Colonel Swope Mrs Sarah Sarh Sa ah Swope a niece ni ce and Miss Ml Stella Stela Swope another niece i Dr Hyde had been treating Chrisman Swope and on the death deth of the latter later the nurses became alarmed and re refused refuse refused fused fuse to stay sty in the house unless Mrs Logan Swope would summon another physician This she did but the physician physician cian clan was unable to find the cause of the th typhoid On December 18 Miss is Lucy Lee Le a daughter of Mrs Logan Swope was stricken with wih typhoid fever four days after her arrival from Eu Europe Europe rope Dr Hyde had met the young woman in New York and had treated her In the early earl stages of her Illness Iness Mrs Logan Swope acquainted John JohnG G Paxton Paton the te attorney for tor the te Swope estate with her suspicions and as a result resul the bodies of Colonel Swope and his nephew were exhumed and autopsies sies sie performed Strychnine was wih w found fount fountin in large quantities and an examination of the stomach of Miss Margaret Swope Sw pe who recovered from the attack atack of ty typhoid phoi revealed the presence of this poison Libel Suits Are Begun Attorney Paxton and Mrs Swope pur pursued pursue pursued sued sue the investigation with wih relentless vigor and as a result resul of at their activity Dr Hyde H de brought a libel suit sui for against Attorney Paxton Dr Frank FrankL Frnk L Hall Hal and Dr Edward J Stewart Stewat and another r for against Attorney Ator Attorney ney Paxton Later Lter the suit sui was dismissed It I was on February 9 that tat the cor coroners coroners coroners Jury In Independence Mo hand handed hande handed ed down do a verdict erdl t holding hol ing Dr Hyde H d re e 1 i I for br death eatn or of colonel Swope Developments now came thick and fast The following day Dr Hyde was W arrested ar charged with wih murder in inthe inthe inthe the first degree the arnt being Is Issued Issue issued sued sue at tho the request of Attorney John JohnG G Paxton executor of f the Swope es estate estate estate tate Dr Hyde took his arrest coolly and pleaded not guilty when ar arraigned arraigned before Justice W f F Lear Loar Lar at Independence Mo He Ho was wa released on bond of The climax came on March 5 when the tho grand Jury jur handed down ten In Indictments charging charng Dr Hyde with wih the killing IdIn of Colonel Thomas H Swope and Chrisman Swope with wih poison polson and with wih the attempted murder of eight members of the Swope household with wih typhoid germs Another Indictment ac accused accused him of manslaughter by bleeding Colonel Col Moss Hunton a cousin of Cob Col Colonel Cobanal anal onel Swope It developed during the investigation that Dr Hyde had secured some ty typhoid typhoid bacteria on November 10 Mrs Logan O 0 Swope while giving her dep deposition deposition in the slander suit brought by Dr Hyde Hydo swore that he had tried to poison her by placing something In the water Dr Hyde however Is confident of his acquittal and his young wife Frances Swope Is sure of his innocence Often Arrested Before In 1897 Dr Hyde then police surgeon was ousted from office because of al alleged alleged inhuman treatment of a colored woman who had attempted to commit suicide His name was more conspicuously conspicuously In the newspapers In when ho was arrested for grave robbing The ease case never came to trial In 1905 he clandestinely married Miss Frances Swope a niece of Colonel Swope against the tho wishes of her mother Mrs Logan O 0 Swope As a result of tile the marriage Dr Hyde and his family were alienated until untila a short time ago when a reconciliation wa brought about Following the announcement of Dr Hydes marriage Mrs Sarah H Frank brought suit against Dr Hyde asking damages for breach of promise to marry This case was settled out of court Dr and Mrs Hyde live in a fashion fashionable fashionable able part of the city They have no children |