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Show . court's idling I i mmu, mi bVbVi l KANSMAS, CITY, Dec. C A defeat j for the defen3e In the trial of Dr. 13. m Clarke Hyde for tho alleged murder H of Col. Thomas H. Swope. came today H when Judge Pcrterfleld admitted tos- H tlmony Intended to show that the j physician inoculated the arm of Miss j Margaret Swope with pus germs at a ' Hl time when he says he gave her a H hypodermic injection of camphorated ! bHI H The admissianof the facts regarding H the Injection is not considered scrl- M ous In itself, but by this ruling the 1 way is opened for the Introduction of j testimony relating to the different H kinds of germs Dr. Hyde had in his H office. I H It was contended at the first trial ' H of the case that Dr. Hyde spread ty- ' H , phold germs at the Swope homo, ' H causing an epidemic. The admission H of testimony regarding this feature H of tho alleged serleB of crimes was H held by the supreme court to have H j been improper. H Testimony was the injection also H . was held to have been incompetent H ! because intent to commit a crime was not shown. Today the stale produced inew tostlmony, including the statement state-ment of Dr. Elmer Twyman, that camphorated oil could not have caused 1 the infection. bH n. |