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Show SWOPES PAID BIG i MONEY FOR MEDICINE Kansas City. Feb. 16 In the course of the deposition given today by Dr. C. H. C. Jordan in Kansas City, Kan., Jordan told of having treated the members mem-bers of the Swopc family for a period covering seven or eight years, up to the present time. He bad, he said, sent to the Swope home medicines prepared by himself, the contents of which 110 ono but himself knew. The medicines, he said, were cora-jwsed cora-jwsed entirely oi horb3. '"But how could you tell whether these herbs were poisonous or not?" "Why, that's easy," the doctor re-r.lied re-r.lied "I'd chew them and if they did not hurt me they were not poisonous." poi-sonous." "Where did you get your herbs?" "Oh, out in the woods. I used to have an old colored man who dug them for me, dandelions, sasparllla nnd mandrakes." This medicine, the witness testified, bad been administered to Mrs. Logan O. Swope, to Miss Margaret Swope, to the late Chrlsman Swope nnd also to Miss Swope, Jr. For his services Dr. Jordan said he had received from the Swopc family botweon $10,000 and $20,000. In answer to questions. Dr. Jordan said he wor born near Valparaiso, Chile, but admitted that he was rear-c.l rear-c.l from childhood by a colored man named Ely Jordan, whose name ho took. |