Show NT Of DR HYDE TERRIfiC ON ONES Trial of Physician Charged With Poisoning Colonel Swope Is On 17 OPENING STATEMENT BY COUNSEL REED Wrangling Among Counsel Marks First Day of Noted Hearing KANSAS CITY April 18 Before Before a a. courtroom that was crowded to its utmost utmost ut ut- most moat capacity long before the regular opening hour James Tames A. A Reed Been today delivered delivered de do- livered the opening statement of the prosecution In the Hyde murder trial The opening of the case was marked by by a It sharp clash dash between attorneys for fori forthe forthe i the two sides The defense wa waged ed a ahard ahard ahard hard fight on the court permitting Mr Reed as special counsel to deliver the opening statement Judge Jude r Latshaw held that it was entirely entirely en legal lelal but hut as a a. precautionary move suggested u stel that Mr Reed Heed be appointed appointed ap ap- appointed pointed a special prosecuting attorney This was done Before Mr Reed was fairly launched upon his bis address Frank P. P Walsh leading leading lead lead- in ing counsel for the defense interposed objection to the prosecution introducing statements regarding any feature of the case caso except that dealing directly with the death of Colonel Swope for whose alleged murder Dr Hyde is now bein being tried He lie was overruled Walsh spoke in a loud tone of voice oice voice and branded many of the persons who gathered evidence against Dr Hyde as liars and thieves Tells TeUs of Doctors Doctor's Courtship Mr Reed sought later to tell the story of the courtship of Dr and Mrs 1 Hyde and t tb objection of Mr Walsh to this feature being gone Zone into was sustained by Judge Latshaw The crowl crowd b began beean e-an e arriving as its early canT as 7 30 0 clock Many brought luncheon with them Every Sea seat t was taken before before be- be fore Reed began to speak A score of women occupied chairs Thomas Swope Jr who recently refused refused re reo fused to ail aid his mother Mrs Jo Logan an O O. Sw Swope pe in sharing the tile expense of f prosecuting prose prose- Tose eating Dr Hyde made mado his initial lt aJ a ao- ao in n court lt lf n mother pUi nd M W ic et Q r chaleT and and r t. t X T sm Jl uncle unde hydes hyde's father father- t eR Kf W WHyde Hyde of t Lexington xin ton Mo Io was also pres pree- ent After PrO Prosecutor Conkling Conklin had react rean the indictment Mr Ree Reed approached the tho court and said Your honor 1 WP we object to the tile pros once ence of Mrs hyde Hydo in iii the iho courtroom during clot dur ing the making makini of this tIlls statement nt Mrs Hyde heard beard tile the remark Leaning Lean Leant jn ing ng forward she listened eagerly te tt ti- every word tho the court said paid on the mat mat- tot tel Judge Latshaw ruled 1 that Mrs 1 Hyde Hydo and Mrs Irs Swope might remain in fib tho courtroom hut all other witnesses should be excluded Attorney Lucas for tho the defense made mado objection to Mr Reed delivering the tha opening statement claiming it was- was the tho duty of ot the prosecutor Lucas was overruled At the first mention by Mr R Reed cd of Dr Hyde Hyde's Is alleged intention to exterminatE exterminate exter exter- minate mingle the tho entire Swope family attorneys attorneys for Hydo Hyde made strenuous tion Only facts relating to the d death ath of Colonel Swope and not suspicions should be presented they said Objection to R Reed ld as special counsel making the tho address was is renewed Defense Attacks Prosecution The jur jury was removed and Frank P. P Walsh began hegan a i vigorous orous attack on tho the prosecution I We o object to the tho hired counsel i in inthis inthis this case Me l making laking such false falee statements regarding Dr Hyde le lie 10 said An attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt will be he made mado to introduce evidence evi ovi- ovi- ovi dence gathered by b- highly paid pahl counsel detectives liars and p perhaps thieves who entered the house and nod the laboratory labora tory of this tills man while ho he was absent from froin the tho city Such Sueh Sucil testimony as they will give gi is wholly false and in iii duo time tinie will vill be dis dis- proved But if a review of it is permitted permitted per per- to creep into nito the minds of tile the jury for this trial it will create a falt falsa impression which will viii remain even MEn though the thA statements aro are eventually disproved ld At the suggestion of the th court ourt Mr Ur Reed was appointed a special l tor tot The defense spoke poke to tho the court about Reed being bling paid laid by Mrs Swope and asked that ho he tell the court the amount of his remuneration Of course ho's hos paid hastily ea said tI Mr r. r Conkling rising from froni his chair bail And it its it's 8 with the consent of the mother of one of her murdered chil chil- dren Mr Conkling was reprimanded bv by Judge e Latshaw for lor lI using in tho tho thuc term term murdered and warned not to re rf repeat repeat re- re p peat nt it The Tile remark was ras with withdrawn rawn by br the tho prO prosecutor objection to the admission sion of that portion of the tile statement r re regarding regarding re- re garding ardin Dr Hydes Hyde's averred l purpose to slay the Swope family was overruled Touching o 1 on the h death of Colonel Swope f i lg re reeS reeS' eS' eS an and Dr contention 0 that he save gave the patient nothing but a digestive tablet Mr Reed said We Ve shall show you 3 that cyanide e of ot potassium u is a most st dangerous r poison s acid I Is one stam o of am the deadliest iSO of t poisons The poison polson of the tite asp or 01 the adder Is not to be compared with It Seldom Is It sold In Ill Its original form But one of the compounds containing prussic prussie acid ael Is cyanide of potassium It It too Is rarely used as a medicine We shall show that on S September UmI 15 U. Dr Hyde purchased cyanide of potash mI t W slum capsules ure and h digestive I capsules capsule These appear so 10 nearl nearly alike that it would be almost impossible for the tile average average av average person to tell the tile difference b be- be l tween them l lIt It was by hy tile the use UC of these capsules similar r rn in n a n Dr r hoped rt t to c cover fJ up thc administering hP rl of the deadly poison polson In n leading up to the motive which th Continued on page pago 10 J 3 ARRAIGNMENT Continued from page 1 L I f state claims caused the the- alleged mu am muto to be committed at Mr f Reed Hoed feEd explain explains I lJ It overpowering o greed reed for tor mone money hadj hadl itself in Dr Hyde With Will a ai 1 J pose of adding ading to his wealth said 11 Heed the physician had made lov by women and then obtained mOI mone thorn them I The Tile greater reater p pout part rt of the s sa Ig Iga a repetition of the charges made madE b witnesses against again t the ph phi lo given giyen before Dr Ih s 's atto recently The deaths of Colonel Th II 11 I. I and Chrisman Swope and of jJ Moss Hunton were with wih in tail tai The charges that thai Dr DI Hyde responsible for the spread of o t ty v Hf r I fever in the Swope Sa-ope house and tha i three occasions he tried to poison pOin Margaret Swope composed a part of or the address i The Th story ston of Tames M 11 I d was made a little more clear dear Acio Acco e to the statement Dr C T T. Twyman Do tested against Dr hyde ton to such an extent as he hI did t I Hyde Ide de was ted indicted for nl in Ing Hunton by bleeding i iThe re The charge that brings f the lie 11 lef I to this bar of justice Is ihs ha i of ora ha lir wit with wih h deliberation premeditation and anS and calculating purpose mur r I Missouri's most distinguished citizen kinsman of his wife a H bene ator te tu said Mr 1 need Reed in opening hl hK hi- I The proper investigation of or compels the state stat believe believe- th tin de a Into of a series of crimes rime ca h o ois ois is a part and parcel of o a gigantic oG s II ithe te of criminality an investigation c o of law ailing in In wrongs 09 l g the Ie reaching so tremendous and anil ant so o oin ru ruIn ruin in Is its conception arid ard partial e ex exas Op as IS to challenge the Io fd of the world d and to o stand j g k ort ll out lm parallel in the a annals annal I of fr The Th deaths in the household w r. r 1 up chronologically Mr tr Jle d nr l at m to show that Dr Hyde lyde had C conquest of the wealth of the with ith cunning The first t step ace aceto co ft 1 to Mr t mr Reed d was s to Oo do a an-a an Hunton an executor of the Sw e jl and then g get t the position himself V ta a afore fore said Reed Red the physician dr quarts a 0 of blood from n body he ho had sd been e 01 stricken 11 It by apoplexy I four foul minutes Hunton w was dt dad ad Sai Sa Reed need Jr l po Motive for Crime IIo Now for the purpose ili Ih dm m moyd mod to do 0 this thin thing Hunton was fx xe of the will wil As tho th- evidence evidene 1 will sill jt ht I man hIP Hyde wanted anted this place L Within a iL few minutes 1131 liSa hn lii h. Hunton had har ild lied died bile n-bile th n blood was still wet on his Oils hand 1 ti Kellar to him railed rall Miss a I tUrf nurse said he lie wanted to see fee her after within an hour he he did ICel and slid requested that thA t she he j- j in 5 he Colonel Swope to the end that bo be made mad executor in Hunton's pla pIa e C Ho Hoi was declined by Miss alias J I lar it- it Details of Colonel Scopes Scope's death then entered into It I WI was wai a e at Dr Hydes Hyde's orders 11 Mir Mir- Kella Kellat j M b Colonel Swope a ca capsule capsule- Com dIC d. d 1 sued Again at Hyde's Hydes rs ord ci i d E rie dennic IC 1 injection j li was given D the lowed Having completed the T jj the ease case to this point Mr Mi 11 sa sal iThe The Tho foregoing evidence ought might b i to be lie the first evidential chap j Je I a. a makes plain the plan and the tche cne id Dr Hyde to accomplish an le a largo barge part of the Swope fortune fortune- I lit t M l was dead and although I Hyde been specified as executor In tIn Ill ta eln place Swope was as dead dad pad and n Mad dead hs the will that it Ie without a change in tn the wi her herh family the h II great of f bI bulk which IC of f lt Hyde tile the ast s wife ll fortune t was 5 e t The Tile n next testimony that will wU bl rhel will be indicative 01 ol the fa fac t Sl Wi otaiO she the tho te next move In the tile c plan and purpose was waR to remove as ns of Dr members of the Swope family 91 h be bo to the end that the fall of P each I 1 r swell the fortune that hI he Ito lt wife would be able to control P t u Ii t tA Dr hid how now A lenh lengthy length recital recial of or Ird Pk t tamed t typhoid and diphtheria ger gel of Dr K N. I 1 IJ Stewart and the p typhoid fever fe In the Swope l 0 I lowed 4 0 er erA A significant feature of that see seiti tf I tIll l Inthe la In the tho statement which referred tl tot tOJ TOh c e d purchasing poison polson was as the bd at atthe the store of the druggist from r W who being burned i t I I poison polson was as bought y Said Mr Reed 1 11 7 t 4 i There Them is a druggist in Kansas I Ti T whose hose store waS wai named named the office of Dr Hyde and at 1 physician obtained some som of hi his m r a supple supplies After Colonel and and Can I e ii of Swope f the nurses hed ue e died l and d and the oat outcry after t. t Is Isei n I ei I this drug store was burned 10 io we do not know nor perhaps W ec necessary to hilt f h in burned the books of account 0 of lain bure were not burned and or disclosed that on December 4 a o her 12 1 H Hyde de purchased cyanIde e 0 s salum d slum alum In capsules at the store 1 P 01 |