OCR Text |
Show BOJK; SWQPE CASE Kansas CHy. Mo., Fed. 10 How CbestjIuK Chase Jordan, a nero 01 Kansaa City. Kits., who aivc-itlsed himself him-self as "Minister of medicine, medical doctor and doctor of liver and gall' Ptones" an administrator of hero treatment compounded by himself, obtained ob-tained from J 10,000 lo $20,000 In eight yearB for doctoring members of the Swope family was told by the "doctor" today. Ho was called to give ' a deposition in the slander suit brought by Dr. It. C. Hyde agalm-t ' John I'axton, executor for the Swope tilati'. j The "doctor's" names was first 1 brought into the Swope ease when .Mrs. 11. C. Hyde Issued a statement expressing conlldence in her husband's 1 Innocence and saying that Cbrlnman I Swope used Johnson's remedies. Jor- 1 dan gave his deimsitlon after much protest, as he claimed his ministering t the Swopcs had nothing to do with the case. Jordan tcslllk-d that hla medicines were harmleps "yarbs," as lie called them. He said they were compounded Horn reins ami herbs obtained in for-elsu for-elsu countries and dug in the woods 1. ear here. "Hut how could you tell whether these herbs were poisonous ' Attorney Attor-ney Frank P. Walsh asked him. "Why. that's easy," replied Jordan. "I'd chew them If they did not hurt me. ce rtainly they were not poisonous j end certainly they would not hurt my patients. That's ihe theory 1 work J 011." " I The herbman c laims o be a South ! American He was raised by a nepro named Will Jordan In Texas. There lo no record of his having a physician's physi-cian's license in Kansas. Six witnesses testified at a short session of the grand Jury today. They were Dr. W. T. Twyrnan, Swope family physician; O. H. Gentry, a druggist of Independence, ot" whom Colonel Swope purchased a compound containing strychnine; Henjamln Smith and R, C. Fields, undertakers' assistants, who aided in the removal of Colonel Sowpe s body from the vault; Sylvester Sylves-ter Spangler. Colonel Swoje'n confidential confi-dential agent, and John G. Pnxton. Ah previously announced, the preliminary pre-liminary hearing of Dr. B. C. Hyde, net for tomorrow morning In Independence, Indepen-dence, will be continued, probably for one week.- |