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Show SWOPE COFFIN SCREWS LOOSE Kansas City, Mo. Feb. 2( The testimony tes-timony of R. H. Mitchell, an undertaker's under-taker's assistant, who paid today thnt several screws in the Hd of Colonel Thomas H. Swope's cofnn were loose when the bolv was remove! for an autopsy, Js regarded as hie-bly Important Impor-tant by a'forneTS of Dr. n C. Kyd Whie Dr. Hyde's attorneys will not state positively thnt they will claim tho body wtw 'tampered with after It was placed In ihe vault, thi-y Admit they will make use of Mitchell's vtate-m'pt vtate-m'pt Mitchell's testimony wa taken today to-day by Trr. Hyde's attorney In connection con-nection with the slander rult hmuciht by tho physlclnn ngjlnst John O. Pax-ton, Pax-ton, an executor of the Swope estate. After Mitchell had tetlfd. C. A. Lyon, another a-slstant undertaker, told about th t'asterlnr? of the lid of the cofiin follow Ina; ihe funeral. "When we elod the coffin we took particular care to see that It was s.-nlnd tightlv." he said. "I know from' personal knowledge that every screw was put in as tightly tight-ly a. possible." . |