Show R HYDE IS POUND fOUND GUILTY I DECREE MURDER SA SAYS YS' YS DRY URY THAT IDA T HEARD TRIAL Of COLONEL SLAYER Imprisonment for Kansas City Who rays jays No Emotion at Result Verdict a Sur- Sur rise irise It Was Believed Would r as as' as Jury Be Unable to Reach ANSAS SAS CITY May fay 16 Behind Behind the bars of the county j jail il ilI I Clark Ir Hyde is confined convicted of murdering Colonel Swope his wife's uncle on last ast October 3 The jury after out pt since last Jast Friday returned its verdict this morning His ent was fixed at nt life imprisonment ut ill m her fashionable home in Forest avenue a Mrs IJ Hyde de and nud of the convicted man weep and hope All of them be- be the supreme court will reverse the decision Mr Mrs J Logan Jau othe O. O the the moth mother lit of ot Mrs Dr i IB is near pcr collapse Sun Sho i is glad to weed by br a jury for her ceaseless of b her r daughters daughter's hUbband husband t shock bock of the conviction haser hasl has l er r nervous ncr and weak w was waI s' s not Dot present today when the tho was aB returned Dr Hyde J wilt Tull bo be boa fd a this week At first Judge ho bo would sentence the tho but it will mil probably day y ician's attorneys will ask for fori rial il i and nd then appeal the ca case c. c r. r r. r 1 ydo cannot now be admit admit- in n IL l tat tw w-aS w returned at 1023 this 4 I ft tI Mrs 31 do c when I U 1 b Jud JudKO o I J her arms about hi hi neck and aid U Then eho sho ho patted her hus- hus I Iho tho check do o a pat fUlt motionless II lie looked iJu o IM whim while tho vcr vcr- belll beIn received AR AS the tho words oltis In tho MB iia natural life uro were pronounced t ll upon tho ho floor We nto Not to Worry C t worry dearl deariA ho said to his eho sho ho clasped him in her arms E. E N. N Hopkins and Miss Mies I Laura aura Motors of UIO tho physician looked id l. l but did not break down They comfort Mrs Hyde Hydo and to up- up AVO vo before her wild said hope hOlle for tor the beat they do not understand this verdict i IB Is Innocent vent lout lost hopes hope declared Dr r r. a 11 ten minutes s after tho verdict n a return returned d tho the physician was as on onto ito to hi hi cell Mrs hyde remained for Homo somo time an as extremely weak Neither Mrs s. 3 Swope nor any of or her children Mrs Hyde W was wa 5 In the room when hen henI y I reported hy will Ill be 8 sentenced In urt by Judge Latshaw either y Ly or Friday The law allows 1 tho the four days day In which to tHe illo a mola mo- mo la s new trial t that prisoner tho the same an aR any Judge Latshaw rod County IJ l B. B Maye Mayes Give him few 11 and end no luxuries R. R ual sual custom of oC permitting prison prison- nc end nd out for their m meals male als wilt will apply Hyde's Hydes e case but hut ho must sleep Bleep 11 IJ 11 II 1 a a. motion for a new now trial defeated will tko take an appeal p 1 n n. n e a. a said aid Frank Frnnk P. P Walsh chief for Dr H Hyde de t E r Unexpected came Cry ery r on the ca case cap III had given up hope Jury which had been out since night coming to an agreement reported this morning that one ono U vowed oel he would vote or ac- ac I die of ot old ago age half hair an nn hour before tho the came eam In decided l to clum change change- o his the tho Jury tomorrow JIt If they did not lb Ho Hoto Hoto to hold th them m several days longer he announcement came that the was read ready tim the news new spread rap- rap l levery every Inch of or space In the court- court rae ras occupied be bo absolute quiet t Raid said RaidIt It Tl rL The Thi marshal Is order d to making malting a a. out a little littin slIn Mn room mom appeared 1 Ie le his wife and hIM IH sl sisters torn They rn at tho the defenses defense's tn table ble Tho The ph physician had worn om for or two if le he hn wore were fIC ready to go JO home absent fW kW W. W T. T Johnson Johon and John II 11 attorney for tor the time defendant camo came sat at at down clown All Ml of tho timo Mains Main's at- at were present group croup at Dr Hyde's Hydes table was WIS but Inclined to nervousness n lt- lt but hilt persistent were r hours houri tho the vote voto had been cn for lor conviction Tho The arrival at ann arm ar n made It tI seem cm certain the been biHin found guilty t In thor tho lie r Sall lall ho tho prospects td Id tJI tiled d to be bravo bra to Last Ink k It will win bo be all right sho she said and smiled 1 1 time c wasted In reo reading the The crowd and at the thes s order arose and silently I out of oC tho the room without I thanked each eRch of or tho tim go It ci then lien hurried home They to go a. a after alter tho the el verdict lct was reached S e wan wai able ablo to in go to her home homeS ing na she wild said n Know now w over the tho first shock and end strong I shall shan take Imme- Imme to make u a motion for a now new nu hug uj In this I suCh shall arrange for The case rase will bo be rc reversed Prenie e court I 1 am em confident tk bk Is Innocent and therefore t otherwise leading co counsel for tor forto wilI m be to appealed and we WOI r. r have every confidence in ft Its final out- out com I ha e nothing else Is to sa say say A Attorney Hornc John II n. Lucas associate counsel of oC Mr Walsh said ald Tho Tim court will remand this for a n now trial There Then has haR been sufficient error In its trial to convince mo Tao of or this Mrs Swope Collapses When h n news of ot tho ho conviction was forwarded forwarded for tor- warded h by telephone to Mr Mrs In Independence sun aho hn shrieked and dropped tim tho receiver She refused to make a statement It Is tho the belief betic of oC court attaches that tho the supreme court will bo be unable to if reach each ach Dr Hydes Hyde's case for Cor at least a n year car caron on account of or lie tho crowded condition of tho time docket locket In the tho meantime tho timo prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner ma may mav bo be kept In the county Jail or orI sent sent- I n t to the lie state prison at nt Jefferson City b bj by Judge e r Tho The Tho law of or Missouri prohibits a court I I from admitting a convicted murderer to bal ball bail A Attorneys tto Walsh and Lucas interviewed Dr II Hydo c In his cell ll C N Werl l toi t m marl man n. n Upon leaving lea ca the prisoner Mr Walsh naif said alft Dr HIi I is bright and cheerful h lI He r feels the time rI fight ht has haR Just bc begun n. n This fhI probably appears dark for tI us but really rally I am ani more o ch cheerful thin than I was tho the day dav I the lie ca case o start started d. d Tho The supreme court will treat UK us To Tn Mau Maude p. p the tho pe pet t cat of ot lar 1 Marshal hal Joe Joo Stewart which has haq ono one milk white eye tho tim superstitious folk tolk about the tho court- court attribute the time conviction It Is raid paid I that cory ory acc accused acc ls d murderer around whom tho the cat has walked In the tile last live years vears has line been becu convicted fh She circled circled cir clr- cir cir- cled cIerI Dr DI Hyde times last Friday I 1 know Imm ho was doomed when h n I saw Maude go co around him mid iUd M Stewart Review of Or Case Dr B. B Clark lI Hyde luis has been under suspIcion sus aims In connection with Ith the tho mysterious deaths and Illness In the lie family cr over since tho time death of ot Col Cot Thomas 11 II Swope in October l O The Tho death of Colonel SWOPe camo Cl oon moon after ho had had hall a severe serero convulsion and the tho convulsion convulsion convulsion sion It was charged by members of or tho the family followed Immediately after the thc he administration of or a cap capsule julo given gl at tho the dl direction of or Dr hyde Dr said it W wan wa H a u. digestive tablet It W was 5 proven at time tho trial that Dr 11 hyde do lied had purchased cyanide of or potassium In five grain capsules and he was prose eLite eLite-cl on tho the belief that h ho lie gave ono one of these capsules to Colonel Swope S Dr DI Hyde said hI ho 1113 bou bought ht tho lie cyanide capsules to kill cockroaches In his 1118 office l Two Iwo vc o clays dRS IJ before Core the death of Colonel Swope Moss Hunton a cousin of or the mu- philanthropist died at tho the Swope hOme homo following a stroke of apoplexy Dr H Hydo II and Dr O. O T T. Tw Twyman man of oC In Independence In- In dependence h treated Hunton Tho The paU patient nt was bled It Is charged CharN at tho the RU suggestion of or Dr H Hyde dc After Arter six pints of blood was vas taken from rom Hunton the tho process was stopped but not un until un- un til tul Dr Twyman had r repeatedly protested that too much blood was being taken from the tho old oM man maim Ten Cases of or Typhoid Beginning early In December an epi- epi pl Continued on page puo If lJ 10 DOCTOR HYDE Continued from Va page pago 1 1 demlo of ot typhoid fever broke out In the tho Swope home in which t ten n members of oC tIme the family were stricken and Ind one Chrisman Chris Chris- man Swope a brother of oC Dr Hyde's Hydes wife wHo died Chrisman died after taking a capsule capule given n at Dr Hyde's Hydes direction and after suffering a convulsion similar to the tho lie one fut that attacked Colonel Swope Margaret Swope Chrisman n sister Ister l ter who was Wll also aila treated b by Dr hyde Hydo had a a. but she ho convulsion on after taking a capsule Iho was given I en an emetic immediately b by Dr and recovered On January ant 7 1910 tho the bo body of Chrisman Chrs- Chrs Chris Chrle- man was ex exhumed exhume hu Ct and four tur days later tho time bo body of C Clonel Colonel SWO Swope was removed from Its Ia tomb and tho via via- 11 cora rora of tho ho bodies Were ere taken cn to Chicago for tor analysis The Tho analysis of or the tho liver of Colonel Swope's Swope boil body resulted In th tIme thA finding of or tf two sixt of or a grain rin of oC nine by the Chicago o chemists The coroner of this county then Urn summoned summoned sum sum- monad a I Jury Jur which after C r investigating tho the d death aUl of ot Colonel Swope ded decided o that ho lie iliad died as the result of or strychnine poisoning pl- pl poi pol- administered at at the direction of ot Dr Hyde Prosecution Begins The rime rhE county count prosecutor then Issued a n warrant charging Dr Hyde with murder In the tho first degree after ICer John G G. G Paxton executor of ot the Swore estate had hal flied filed fed fedan an Information against lie tho physician Judge Judg then Impaneled u a 1 Jury Jun which was ordered to Investigate every ewen phase of th the Swope mystery mystery- Time The grand Jury returned Indictment chat charging Dr HI Hyde with whit lh murder In time the first in iii connection with tho the dl death th of Colonel Swope and and manslaughter manslaughter man man- slaughter in connection with tn time this death of ot Moss Ims Hun Hunton ton In all IU Dr Jd hyde was URS Indicted on eleven Count C Q remaining Indictments indIctments Uie t i I Ing him with wih trying to murder member of the tho Swope f family b by Introducing ty typhoid typhoid 1 ty- ty gernns gerris and poisons into Ino the m medicines medi dl cines administered ro b by him Virgil Virgl prosecutor o of county who led let the thc light fight against J Hyde do for the th stat slat I Issued tho tue following statement state state- fluent ment following the tho th report of the Jury Jur Prosecutor Issues Isue Statement Tho Time very enormity of ot the time crime made maile mie time the conviction difficult It It Is I hard for tho iii human hUlan mind to conceive a a. depravity so Sn great t as to cause any maui man tu to at attempt attempt nt- nt tempt the utter uter destruction lon of or his huts friend and Rd benefactor and sK six other close rela tires tives thC Because of ot this It I was wa necessary for tor time the state to present TO so a 0 but honest host trial Jury Jur evidences which no not only proved but overwhelmingly demonstrated demonstrated demon demon- tho defendants defendant's guilt ul and arid absolutely absolutely showed tim tho utter impossibility of ot othla Ms hla innocence The state of ot Missouri owes outes to tj Judge JUle Ralph S. S Latshaw a proud n and d grateful grate grate- ful tul acknowledgment for his impartial bu but Inflexible enforcement of ot the law The Time Jury is i en entitled to th tIme tho highest respect of oC tho the public for tor Its Is faithful labors labor am and Its Il brave and cou conscientious discharge of ofA ofa ofa a A stern flut duty dimly Marshal JL Mayes Mayee f and all al Ms his deputies used unceasing vigilance that nn any opportunity unity for or a II miscarriage of or Justice was as rendered Impo Impossible Desperate Ca Care Caso o of Defense The Tho h loss lo of the time grand rand JU jury notes not nots am and ant their SUb subsequent discovery ery In tim n the hant hands of oC tho the defense coupled with wih th defiant r refusal ual of or tho ho defense to restore these not notes to t the court only resulted In iii demonstrating dem dam tho the desperate position of the defense and what an nn awful guilt guit lay hay behind such desperate dEsport and ant d defiant fant ac tic tic- tion ton The result shows that It It Is yet yot ot possible rues pos ps- ps sible Ihle in to convict cnn lct a I great Jett crini inal humal even ln c when ho lie is II defended by b- great wealth and Influence Mrs In Logan O. O Swope was fooling feeling improved im Im- proved pro In spit its 11 11 this afternoon and ant sho Consented to talk If I I luau hall not boon bron bon I was wa do doing dolo do- do lag ing lo the tho rl right ht thing sho she said Rad I 1 would never ne have hav hl started this prosecution of oC m my son in I ain convinced c has ha been heen given tho the defendant Of or course oure It docs loes not behoove me to Si say whether I wanted w to see seo him hanged banged As R for or a reconciliation with wih t my daughter I T stand now as iS I have hac always stood The The doors don of or m my house houle Bud and my arms anus and heart are arc ar open to her whenever when when- ever sho wants to t come home M My mother mother moth moth- er or love for or her liar has hn no n never cooled I have haye thought she sho was mL mistaken but never that she WOH W other than lien time the sweet Innocent girl she alms Is |