Show COMPLICATION IN INSOP SOP SWOPE AFFAIR Discovery of New Poison Adds to Kansas City Murder 1 Mystery Kansas City Mo Fob Feb 26 Another er or poison polson has bus boon been found Cound In the Uie vis corns ceras of oC Colonel Thomas H Swope and ChrIsman Swope according to a report made to tho the family by Dr Lud LudwIg wIg Hektoen Dr Walter Wolter Haines and Dr Victor Vaughn An announcement to this effect was mado made today by one of or the tho Swope attorneys He refused to go into details regarding the tho re rc report port Just what the poison polson was is not known but in tho language of or tho scientists It would bo ho classed as ns a am m k or shield Tho Phie doctors are quoted as saying Baying that tho ho poison poJ on wan wao an a type that al although although although though its ultimate effects are arc as ns deadly as are those of oC strychnine has the power to change tho the symptoms symptoms toms of strychnine poisoning so that evidence of oC Illness displayed are con confusing confusing fusing In their theil developments Contradictory to the statement of Cheesing Hatred Charles Gordon the negro yarb man who administered to the Swope family J I M Tutt Tun for formerly formerly or merly merl a n salesman for a manufacturing manufacturIng ing chemist of Kalamazoo Mich tes tos testified testified titled today toda that Jordan at ono one time had medicine lne In Lila his office which con contained tamed poison Tutt said when giving his deposition lion tion in Dr B C Hydes Hy slander suit that on July S ho sold Hold Jordon Jordan tablets containing among other In three grains of ot each and pills pilla each ellch or of which contained of ot a n grain of or strychnine In Ln giving his deposition In the suit recently Gordon became indignant tn when If his co contained 1 ut u h compounded them front from roots and anel herbs Asked how ho he know whether they wore were poisonous he replied I 1 taste them hem myself and amI if I they thoy dont hurt mp nie they the certainly wont Injure my patients Attention was drawn to the tho white tablets tn lets and pills Jordan gave gao to the thin Swope family by b Mrs B C Hyde in ina Ina ina a statement a n few fow ew days dars before the ar nr arrest arrest rest rost of ot her husband on a charge of ot murdering Colonel Thomas H Swope |