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Show ORDERED A COFFIN Dr. Hyde Anticipated the Death of Col. Swope Kansas City, Mo., April 29. Delay became Imminent in tho Hydo mur-; mur-; der trial when, at noon today, William Wil-liam IJeehe, a Juror, was called to the bedside of his dying wife. Reports Re-ports from the local nospital in which she is confined, were that she would probably live but a few hours. Dr. Hyde refused to enter the cause of Chrlsman Swope's death in tho certificate he signed, testified Henry J Ott, an undertaker, today. Mr. Ott said the physician told him to get Dr. G. Tvyman, who also attended Mr. Swope, to fill ont the blank. This was pot done, and the certificate is still Incomplete. Dr. Hydo spoke to R. B Mitchell, an undertaker, a day before Colonel Swope died, about getting a coffin for him, testified Mr. Mitchell today. The undertaker said Mrs. Hyde told him her husband had said Col. Swope could not live. The morning session of court was dcoted largely to the testimony of undertakers, cemetery employes and persons who guarded the bodies of Colonel and Chrlsman Swopo and James Moss Hunton after their deaths. Kansas City. April 29. At the outset out-set of the Hyde murder trial this ( ' morning it was expected that the cou- j test of medical experts In the case. I would be on before the day's session I was over. Dr. Ludwlg Hektoun, the first scientist scien-tist culled Into the case by Mrs. Logan Lo-gan O. Swope. and who made an autopsy au-topsy on Col. Thomas H. Swope's body, was summoned from his home In Chicago Thursday. Ho was told he probably would be called as a witness wit-ness today. Announcement was made at th same time that Dr. Walter S. Haines and Dr. Victor C. Vaughn, other scien- i tlsts in the employ of the prosecution, would testify before the end of the wek. Adlsing Dr. Hyde's attorneys in the examination of the scientists are half dozen chemists and toxlcol-- oglsts. Dr.. E. Smith of New York la chief of the defense's medical corps. He ha been "here for Beveral . wc-eka making tests and conferring with the defense. , The defense's efforts will be dl-1 reeled mainly, to discredit testi-j mony The sallaut questions, ask-i ed veniremen from which the Jury was I selected was; "Do you believe ex-I ex-I pert medical testimony?" I There are several men on the jury who said they did not. R. JJ Mitchell, an undertaker, who cared for the bodies of Col. Swopo and IJaraes Moss Hunton, was the first witness called today. While ho was at tho Swope house preparing for burial the body of Mr Hunton. a "day before the death of j Col. Swope, said Mr. Mitchell, ho met Mrs. Hyde and f.he spoke about getting get-ting a casket for the millionaire. "She told me Dr. Hyde said Colonel Swope could not livv he testified. Judge Lat6haw ordered this alleged conversation stricken out. Upon taking tho body of Col. Swopo from a vault in Forest Hill , cemetery on January 11th, testified; the undertaker, ihe casket was in ' gr.od shape- and the corpse had not j been disturbed. On cross examination he said the scrow9 were not set as, ' tightly as ho had expected them to , be. He assumed ihoy had settled Mr. Mitchell said he saw red spots j on the limbs of Col. Swope. The ' state contends they aro signs of cyanide cyan-ide polaonlns. Although Dr. Hyde signed the death certificate of Chrisman Swope with i the names "Twyman and Hyde," ho , did not enter the cause of death, testified tes-tified Henry J. Ott, an undertaker. "Dr. .Hyde also marked out a line reading 'Hyde treated the case, and made it 'We treated the case.' " Mr. Ott said he sent the certificate to Dr. Twyman's ofllce, but the phy-blctan phy-blctan wa6 not there. Tho "cause of death" blank has never been filled In. "Ho told me Dr. Twyman treated the case and I bhould take the certificate cer-tificate to him and have him give the causo nf death," said Mr. Ott. Thomas Ravenscamp and Ira W. McFheters, policemen, and W. P. Stein and F. L. Nichols, undertakers, testified the body of Col. Swope was not disturbed while it lay in tho Kau- j sas City public library for two days. |