Show ji J M i HYDE FOUND GUILTY KANSAS CITY PHYSICIAN CONVICTED CON-VICTED OF POISONING MILLIONAIRE MIL-LIONAIRE THOMAS SWOPE I Accused Mans Own Testimony Re 0 i f suited In Verdict by Jury Which Will Mean Life Imprisonment I I I Unless Decision Is Overruled t f Kansas CltrDr D Clark Hyde whom a jury on Monday found guilty I t j of murdering Col Thomas II Swope 29 I and sentenced to life Imprisonment i I owes his conviction to his own testimony gl I testi-mony on the witness stand says W I C Crone a Juror < 4 Crone Is In reality tho man who tt decided the physicians fate Until 1 Bunday night Crone and S R Johnson John-son a farmer from Sibley Mo held f out for acquittal against tho rest of M tho jury Crone said At first I bo p lleved Hyde Innocent and until Sunday r Sun-day night I voted to acquit him a i Then I recalled his testimony about H I his cyanide purchases and I decided he was guilty I told Mr Johnson I I i had changed my vote and I talked t with him about my decision A itr jitrango feature of Juror Crones action as ac-tion Is that his son Albert was recently a t i re-cently < < sentenced to eighteen years In la the penitentiary for murdering Bor tha Bowler his sweetheart t v I The return of the verdict was I j i marked by an absence of dramatic ° features Mrs Hyde cried a little 44f4 when she heard the verdict In tho t 1I r court room Dr Hyde did not change his usual stoical expression Mrs f ip Logan O Swopo was unnerved when of fi I at her homo In Independence oho a beard the outcome tat My home Is still open to my daughter she said I feel sorry for a 1 herr her-r herBut Mrs Hydo Is not going back to 9 her mother Sho is stillloyal to her I husband and confidently believes the t supreme court will free him e I Dr D Clark Hydo has been under tei t suspicion In connection with the mysterious mys-terious deaths and Illness In the t Swopo family ever since tho death of r Col Thomas II Swope in Octobor t i 1909 Tho death of Colonel Swopo followed soon after he had had a so t i voro convulsion and the convulsion 1 convul-sion It was charged by members 1 4 i mem-bers of the Swope family followed fol-lowed Immediately after tho administration k 1 r i i m tratlon of a capsule given at tho direction e M di-rection of Dr Hyde Dr Hyde said ° It was n digestive tablet t t It was proven at the trial that Dr I r Hyde had purchased cyanide of potassium t j po-tassium In fivegrain capsules and he lf I r1 1 was prosecuted on the belief that he I sage ono of these capsules to Colonel r i Swopo Dr Hyde said he bought the eta n cyanide capsules to kill cockroaches ° jil In his office 14 Ii Two days before the death of Col t Duel Swope Moss Hunton a cousin of i r 1 jj the millionaire died at the Swopo homo following a stroke of apoplexy Kp t Dr Hyde and Dr 0 r Twymati of I j Independence treated Hunton His 1 death Is also charged to Dr Hyde |