Show I CORONER NOW NOVi INVESTIGATES TES SWOPE DEATH His F Finding Important as asIt as' as It Will Shape Future Course COURTROOM CROWDED I WITH THE CURIOUS Dr Hyde Files Third Damage Darn Dam age Suit Against the 1 S Swope ope Executor KANSAS CITY Mo Feb 7 A A Curt ous ow cager eager crowd pa packed ked the the courthouse at Independence io today ay f and listened to first steps in the states state's official unfolding of the Swope mystery Men women and ana even children made mado up the spectators and every inch of space was occupied A The prominent nt members of tb the Swope family with the exception of Mrs r 8 B C. C Hyde Bodo proved red to be the main main- attraction attra tion Dr Hyde tho the Swope family p phy- phy r- r who had bad brought suit agai t tJohn t John G G. Paxton the executor charging 5 him with criminal libel was wa annoyed oi a by the gaze of of curious c cyl Z J i s 's Dr Hyde looked straight ab ahead a hi him f ff Im fe feeling liD fine fine he lie said to tda t porter Then he he be a added de c S tr I Mrs Hyde III i I only wish wis Mrs s. hyde Il was wasa ablo i t to io be e out I left ner lt in bed She was was was-vt ci t till ill a and nd her physician ordered her la stay stav stain in bed 4 The first session was session was taken up uri in fJ v o-v r i tog ing over o the details of the emb embalming V o of the body o of 99 Col Thomas H H. H Sp- Sp his funeral disinterment and anil the au au autopsy V topsy Nothing ng startling was tas as brou ht t.- t. The f fist fust i- i it t witness in the after afternoon n i iwas was Dr Dr G. G T. T Twyman one oue of tb the Swope family physicians who had displace il rl Dr Hyde aft after r Colonels Colonel's Swope's d I it t Duri During the noon rece recess s deputies w V for ton a week had been trying to enter the t Swope res residence served sei subr enu U on Mrs Logan Loan O. O Rw Sn-ope Sn ope and R Swope S ope nurses nurses to to testify est fy 1 tR J SUlt I UV r L t 0 f q n 7 t the tho cau e t eath of or r o oma Sw Swope pe resumed d' d its its' sessions at at f enre Mo 1 today r Jurors Knew Swope The six abc jurors aU all live in to Independence lente and add most moat of them were ere personally ac- ac ed with with- lUll the millionaire whose death th they y arc are Investigating It is believed that the lie coroners coroner's In Inquest inquest Inquest in- in quest will do much to straighten out tb the legal tangle which has since the Investigation of Colonel death began If a verdict declaring declai death death came came nit nit- Un de den der unnatural circumstances is returned It it Is s taid indictments will follow ol w. w If It an i opposite verdict Is reached the criminal aspect of the ease case lse will wUl vanish anish and amid only ony the civil suit will be heard Dr Lud Ludwig it of ot Chicago Chic the toxicologist who ho had in charge the Investigation n of the stomachs stomachs-of of Colonel Swope and the latter's n nephew ph Sherman Swope have bave been subpoenaed and will arrive tomor tomor- ro row All the witnesses who last week so 50 vigorously vig Ig ig resisted the tho efforts of s subpoena servers desiring their depositions in m civil 1 1 suits growing ou out t of the tho Swope mystery i readily accepted s service when hen subpoenaed sub sub- subI I by the coroner and all aU were ere present at the hearing today Family Quarrel Crops Out r Mrs Logan H. H Swope and her her daugh tens Miss Lucy Lee Swope Miss Mis Sarah Swo Swope e Miss Margaret Swope with their tI attorneys formed one group grout while sitting In another party w was s another daughter of Mrs Swope the wife of Dr B. B CHyde C C. Hyde Ihde who has ruts filed a suit cult demanding for alleged libel as a result of ot the Swope sen sensation aU n. n John G. G Paxton Pa-at-on executor of the Swope Swope- estate and one of the defendants in the the- civil suit tiled flied by Dr Hyde Hydo was also wo among the witnesses subpoenaed I James Craig city clerk of ot Independence ence first witness identified the Ute death certificate of Thomas H. H Swope H He could could- not Identify f teU the the- signature l a of Dr B. B C. C Hyde but believed e it was wa-s genuine n o. o R. R B. B Mitchell an employee of an undertaking undertaking un un- un- un company told of preparing theody the body Pody for burial burial- His testimony touched upon the assertions previously made mad that the embalming fluid might have contained a poison polson Mitchell said he had been called to the Swope home and conducted Immediately to in s wem m where the bod body lay lar o What shape did you find the body In 1 asked Attorney I 1 saw nothing strange strange- about it t re replied y N- plied piled Mitchell f Were the muscles contracted or any any- th thing of that kind s. I rd r Nothing that I noticed d par particularly cUla I I r wasn't looking for tor anything of 8 that that- t. t kind Mitchell said the nurse and Judson Judon Mann an assistant were the only persons persons per per- sons present |