Show COLONEL COLONL SWOPE J JS BELIEVED TO TO- HAVE ot Of POiSONING Plans Seemingly Also Included Included In In- Extermination of Swope Heirs KANSAS CITY Mo Jan 14 An An An arrest probably will wilI be bo made in a few days said John II If Atwood an attorney attorney at- at torney orney for the Swope estate today when asked what hat steps would bo be taken in n connection with ith the examination of the he vital organs of Col Cob Thomas H. H Swope the aged philanthropist who died suddenly October 3 Death was at first attributed to apo- apo but a quick succession of deaths of and ind i illness Iness amon among heirs s of the Swope estate led to an investigation culminating ing ng in the exhuming of the body of Colonel Swope and the removal of his stomach for purposes of an autopsy There is iF not a particle of doubt in my mind continued Mr Atwood that both Thomas and Christian Swope were poisoned It is understood that no warrant will willbe willbe willbe be asked until the examination of the tho stomach of Colonel Swope which is in progress at Rush Bush medical college in Chicago under tho the 1 direction of Dr lick Hek- toen Jen of that institution is' is completed Deliberate Plot The aIle alleged ed murder plot said Baid to have bave been een planned with great reat deliberation lad had for its supposed end the extermination tion ion of all the Swope heirs It is stated stated stat- stat ed d that shortly before Christmas swope's death which occurred on December De- De cember ember 2 two months later than that hat of his uncle Colonel Swope a man visited the office of a well known bacteriologist bac bac- in Kansas City and secured some ome typhoid germs enns With these dead bacilli bacilli it is asserted the the- theman man hoped honed to inoculate the members of the SWO Swope family amily Added credence is given this hypothesis hypothesis esis sis by the fact that during the month of f December six members of tho the Swope household became ill with typhoid fever That typhoid epidemic wits was not Dot due to unsanitary conditions about the tho Swope r residence was shown by the report of two wo physicians phYl who made mado thorough investigations in- in of the premises assisted by plumbers |