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Show NEW FEATURES IN ' SWOPE DEATH CASE Kausas City Millionaire Was Changing His Will Just Hc-t'ore Hc-t'ore the End Came. By Leased Wire lo The Tribune. KANSAS ClTr, Jan. 15. It has just becomo known tliat on tho day preceding preced-ing his death last October, Colonel Thomas II. Swopo decided to rewrite his will, altering it iu ovcry detail. Au aMorucy wns summoned, but beforo tho new document could bo prepared and executed, ex-ecuted, Colonel Swopo snukJnto a state of coma and did not rally Scant. ft was reported today that a Chicaco chemist had found a whilo powder iu tho stomach of Chrismon Swope, the sou. who is said to have been poisoned-with poisoned-with his father, Colonel Swope. .PAr.Pll?lo,rraph of thc (loat1' ccrfificalo ot Ohnsmon Swopo shows that the cause of death was not given, thc space lor this important detail being left blank. It has been tho contention of "Dr. Hyde, thc physician who mado out thc certificate of death for both Colonel bwopo and Chrismon Swope, that death resulted from natural causes and all thc details were regularly handled. One of Kansas City's most prominent citizens a nch man himself is under strict surveillanco iu connection with the case. This man's arrest, which will startle tlio city when it comes, only waits on tho report of tlio Chicago exports ex-ports who aro examining Col. Swope 's stomach for poison 1 races. |