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Show Strychnine' Fount! in Contents of Stomach of Miss Mar- , m THIRD MEMBER. ILL-FATED B FAMILY WHO SUFFERED 1 Executor of Estate Compelled to mm Make This Statement in H a Deposition. j By Leased Wire to Tho Trlbu'no. Wm . KANSAS CITY, Feb. 12. Strychnine- H has been found in the conteuts of ths H stomach of Aliss Margaret Swope, taken lira by physicians durinp: illness which de- IIS velopcd shortly after s!ie had swallowed tjfflH a dose of medicine. This makes tho ' H i third member of tho ill-fated family fffl who suffered from poisoning during what was supposed to havo been a ty- HI phoid fevor epidemic, according to Dra. I D Jlektoen and 7Taincs, expert chemists. j B Threat Brought Statement. ' K That this discovery had been mado IB was announced this afternoon by At- KB tornoy John G. Paston, eecntor of the JH cstato, in a deposition. Tho statement MM was drawn from him only after George fifl H. Kelly, notary, after taking tho dop- Q osition threatened to commit him if ho failed to answor n pointed question H by Dr. Frank V. Walsh, attorney iox U Dr. B. C. Hyde. H Lawyer Paxton -protested -vigorouelj Dl against tho ruling. Ho declared Dr. H Hyde's libel suite had not been brought M in good faith, and that thej- wore in. H tonded to give tho accused man's attor- H neys advance information of tho eri- BH deuce to bo used against him when ho IB is tried for the murder of Colonel IB Thomas H. Swope. The protest was B without avail, when forced to speak, B he said Dr. Hoktoen had notified him B by telephone that str3'chninc had been Wliat Nurse Said. H Scarcely less startling was another B statement made by Paxton. lie declared. WM nurse Houlahan told him that ,iust be- H foro Ohrismon Swopo died. Dr. Hyde WM gave tho young man a capsule, and that HI he wont into convulsions shorr.lv after. Wm Paxion testified that he had first H suspected Dr. Hydo December IS, after H tho four nurses had told Mrs. Swopo MM they would not stay in tho house if Dr. B Hydo were retained as family physi- cian. His own physician, Dr. Twiman, WM told him of a number of suspicious cir- cumstances. ho said. He said repeatedly MM that he had meant Dr. Hydo in tho Jet- H ler written to Stewart 'Fleming upon M which tho present suit is based. M |