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Show IS.IOPE TELLS TALE Kanws CUy, Mo., March 2. Aftoi verks of delay, occnsloiiml by squab Hps botwecn attorneys and her pros I unrc before the grand jury, Mrs, Lo-1 Lo-1 jan O. Swope. the guiding hand in the 1 invest lg;it lrn of the Swop mystery. today Kve her deposition in Dr. B. C. I Ilydo'o Fl;nder ftilt apalnst John C. Pa.xton, as executor for tbo Thymas i 11. Swopo estate. ' There was little sensational testi-ninny testi-ninny Id Mrs. Swope's story. AVIth twInklliiK pyos and many smiles for hT son-in law's atlorneys. Mrs. Swope told of many of tli occentrleltlcs of Colonel Swope and then, with all seriousness, expressed hfr ronfidenre In Chfis.srz Hatred C'ha.so Jordan, tho twarthy "yarb" njan who In eight years has received between $10,000 and J2n,0n-' for "doetorlns;." Whllo Mrs. Swoiie was telllnc her Ftory a deputy Fherlff In Wyandotte rounty, Kansas, vas searching for thu herb 'sprelallst for whom he had a warrant charclnR him with practising medicine without a license. t . Jordan was found at his homo ill, and as a result the warrent vas not served today. K. C. Smith, a druc salesman also testified in Dr. Hyde's suit today. He told of selllu? pills 10 Jordan that rontalned belladonna and accfanalide nut regardless of all of Jordan's troubles, Mrs Swope beleves In him. She is still "doinerinc with him." Thus she testified today. She also said that Mrs. B C. Hyde, wbo precipitated pre-cipitated tho Investlpaion of he "doc-or," "doc-or," also had confidence in him. "Frances Hyde," sad Mrs. Swope. In speaking of her daughter, "wa Just as well pleased as any of us when Jordan cured me," Colonel Swope never took any of -Jonlan'c herbs, Mrs. Swope said. All oi (be members of the family uset I bom except him. Mrs. Swope cr'3S llnued that the medicine that Jordan left at the houso was thrown away by her alone with a lnrpe amount of oth-ir oth-ir medicine at Uie request of Dr. G. T Twymann. who look charpre of the ' fever patfoDts In the Swope home after af-ter Dr. Hyde's dismissal. It was ImmedJaUly after Dr. Hyde had been discharged that the medicine medi-cine cherts of tho house wore cleared Tablets containing strychnine which Jamea Moss Hunton had in his room were amonjr the medicines thrown out Mrs. Swope testified she did not know whether. Colonel Swope had cer taken tak-en any of theso tablets. She told of leavlDR Mrs. Hyde in j charge of the Swope home during j her visit to Chicago, just before the ' fever epidemic, saylne Mrs. Hyde was a "capable and Intelligent housekeep-or housekeep-or " Colonel Swope, according io Mrs. Swope, was on extremely eccentric old man. Constantly fearing death, he talked of his demise for years heroic he-roic the end came. For twenty-five years he drank, becoming "tipsy" as she expressed It. during the latter part of each afternoon. He Fikffercd KJviatly from -stomach trouble until n Bhort time before hbi death when ho appeared to improve. In telling of the eccentrbltlcs of the millionaire. Mrs. Swope brought out the fact that Attorney John G. Tax-ton Tax-ton was not acquainted with Colonel Swope until a few months before the philanthropist's death. |