The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 28, 1910, Image 6

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HUMANHEND Or. B. Clarke Hyde Shown to be a Cruel Monster of Criminality. MANY CRIMES CHARGED Against Him l>y the State, in its ^ A rriitiriuiieilt of tile One [. r. Respectable Physician.?He Was Abnormally CYiicl, Torturing Women and Animals, Then Murderer. Picturing Dr. 13. C. Hyde as a man whose evil propensities led him during his boyhood to torture animals, In later life to abuse the poor and helpless, and in the fullness of professional success to conceive the most colossal murder plot in the history of criminality. Attorney James A. Reed made the opening statement k for the State in the physician's trial at Kansas City Monday. Hyd'e is charged with poisoning his wife's father and members of his family so as Mrs. Hyde would inherit al'l the wealth of her father. In leading up to the motive which the State claims caused the alleged murders to be committed, Mr. Heed explained an overpowering greed for money had manisfestcd itself in Dr. Hyde. With a purpose of adding to his wealth, said Mr. Reed, the physician made love to women and then obtained money from them. The deaths of Col. Thomas H. and Chrisman Swope and of James Moss Hunton were dealt with in detail. The charges that Dr. Hyde was responsible for the spread of typhoid fever in the Swopo house, and that on three occasions he tried to poison Miss Margaret Swope, composed a considerable part of the address. T.he story of Col. James H. Hunton's death was made a little more clear. According to the statement, Dr. G. T. Twyman protested against Dr. Hyde treating Hun ton to such an extent as he did. Dr. Hyde was indicted for negligently killing Hunton by bleeding. "The charge that brings the defendant to this bar of justice is that of .having with deliberation, premeditation and cold and calculating purpose murdered one of 'Missouri's distinguished citizens, the kinsman of his wife, a benefactor to him," said Mr. Heed in opening his address. The proper investigation of this charge compels, the State believes, delving into a series of crimes each of w.hich is a part and parcel of a | gigantic scheme of criminality, an investigation of a sequence of lawinvading wrongs so far-reaching, so tremendous and ruthless In its conception and partial execution, as to challenge the horror and astonishment of the world and to stand without parallel in the annals of crime. Earlier in .his address Mr. Rc3ed dwelt at some length upon the introduction of Dr. Hyde into the Swope famIiy Mrs. swope, wnen iiiipuiimied by the physician to give .him the hand of her daughter, started an investigation of the physician and thus said the attorney, Hyde's character was first shown to her In its true light. Regarding the inquiry, he said: "Her investigation disclosed the fact that, he was possessed of abnormally cruel tendencies; that as a boy he tortured animals, a characteristic which man if sted itself when as a man and a physician he held the position of city surgeon and in thatposition he so demeane 1 himself toward the unfortunate pauper patients that fell to .his charge that he was discharged for cruelties. "The specific occassion for his disdischarge was the injection of oil of ..r.4..,..i in-* l.nHv of *i 11 iin for ill ( I l) 1(1 i 11 1 I i IV/ lliu k/V/V? j vy t V*.. . tunate woman who was in his charge as police surgeon. "Mrs. Swope's further efforts disclosed upon his part an abnormal longing for money. In the gratification of his desire, though in reasonably good practice, lie made love to women and under the guise of a sweetheart obtained from thorn large sums of money, amounting to thousands of dollars. It transpired also that he had been a grave robber." The deaths in the household were taken up chronologically, Mr. Reed attempting to show that l)r. Hyde had planned his conquest of the wealth of the Swope heirs with cunning. Th?? first step, according to Mr. Iteed, was to do away with Hunt m, an executor of the Swope estate, and then get poscssion himself. Therefor, said Reed, the physician drew two quarts of blood from 11 union's body after he had been stricken hv apoplexy and in four minutes llun r*r? war dead. "Within an hour after Ilunton died he requested Miss Kollar, a nurse, to intercede with Col. Swope," said Reed, "to the end that he, Hyde, he made executor in Hunton's place. T.his was declined by iMIss Kollar." Details of Col. Swope's death were then entered into. It was rehearsed how, at the order of Dr. Hyde, Miss Kollar gave Col. Swope a capsule. Convulsions ensued. Again at Hyde's orders a hypodermic injection was given. Death fol'owed. Having completed the .history of the case to this AT MERCY OF TRUSTS OHIO LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE SO 1IE PORTS. ? Says Prices Paid the Farmer Are Heat Down While Prices to Retailers Are Raised l'p. Ohio food consumers are at the mercy of the trusts says a report of tlio food probe committee appointed by the Ohio Legislature to investigate the cause of .high prices. The committee says: "The responsibility for high prices lies chiefly at the door of the packers, who beat down the prices paid to the farmer and put up the prices paid by the retailers. "Storage refriegeration and speculation, the packers, the exporter and the pricemaker are the principal conditions and causes responsible for high prices." It is declared that there are 50,000 trusts in America, Including associations of dealers and simular organizations, and all have contributed to the advanced cost of living. The report goes on to say: ... ? - *AI ? "IteSlCieiltS Or duos are uaiiiiniiaed and forced to yield dividends without regard to the law of supply and demand. Free trade between producer and consumer has been eliminated, selling to consumers at wholesale rates is forbidden by the manufacturer or some association. The retailer's profit on trust-made goods is reduced so low that he is forced to overcharge on other commodities or give short weights.' The federal tariff law is attcked as sheltering monopolies. Increase in food production could not benefit -cither city people or wage earners those w.ho suffer moet from the * !gh living cost?the committee poin's out, because the laboring peoples wages are under trust control. If th re were au increase in production, it is asserted, the trusts would simply reap greater profits by selling more and paying loss to the producers. Jn 14 years all prices have advanced, according to the committee, at least CI per cent., as against an increae in wages of 4 0 per cent. PUIiMC SEKVICK COMMISSION'. Governor* Appoints McDonald, Riggs and Rnysor. Th-e Governor Monday appointed Attorney J. E. McDonald, of Winnsboro; Prof. William Riggs, of Clemson; and ex-Senator Thomas M. Raysor, of Orangeburg, to constitute the new public service commission under the act of the Legislature giving such a board authority to fix the maximum gas, water and electric rates throughout the State. Charleston, Marion, Spartanburg, Union and Conway are exempted. The commission^ decisions are reviewable in tbc circuit court. point, Mr. Rood Raid: "The foregoing evidence might he said to be the first evidential chap tor that makes plain the plan and scheme of I)r. Hyde to accomplish an acquisition of a large pa t of tho Swope fortune. The next testimony that will he introduced will he indicative of tin? fact that the next move in th -? carrying out of this plan and purp?s1 was to remove as many mombors of the Swope family as might he t > the end that the fall of oae.h would swell the fiortur*o that he, through his wife, would be able to control." A lengthy reeital of how I)r. Hyde obtained tvp.hoid and diptheria germs of Dr. E. L. Stewart and the appearance of typhoid fever in the Swopo residence followed. This typhoid could not have come from the water used, it was said, because the water came from a cistern and was well filtered. It was on the occassion of Dr. Hyde's taking dinner with the Swopo family on November 2f> that lie is thought to have spread the g1 ring, it was said. The alleged attempt of Dr. Hyde to poison Margaret Swope was then taken up. Mr. Rood said: "One night while the girl was supposed to he almost recovered from typhoid, a nurse learned that Hyde had given her a hypodermic injection. "When asked why he had made the injection, Hyde replied that he had only given oil of camphor for intermittent pulse. Miss Swope de nied the p.hysician felt her pulse and the nurse found no odor like oil of champlior. "A sore has recently developed upon the girl's arm and the State believes it is due to the physician's injection of some of the germs .he obtained from Dr. Twyman into this member. "A few days after tlvo injection incident, Dr. Hyde loft a capsule among the medicines belonging t( the girl. A nurse administered tin capsule. Miss Swope was sei/;*.l witV convulsions. An examination of tiu contents of her stomach showed il to be strychnine." A significant feature of that Keet'.on of the sta'ement which re'err ?! 10 Hyde's purchasing poison was tlu reference to th" store of th-? drugg at of whom the poison was oo igin i being burned recently. FATAL TRAIN WRECK FOUR MAIIj CLERKS DEAD AND FOUR ARE IIUKI Flames Hrcuk Out and Iiu>7i Up the Wreckage. Rut All the I'unsongers Escaped Death. Four mail clerks are dead and three trainmen and a mail c'erk injured, as a result of a wreck of the through flyer 011 the Illinois (Central railroad, five miles north of .lackson, Miss., early -Monday. The dead are. W. It. Loir. mall clerk, of Memphis; V. E. Howz-*, mail clerk, of 199 Adams avenue, Memphis; Jones, Treoloar, mail clerK, of 22,3 Court avenue, Memphis, A. W * * * - <? K*. ... Woods, negro, mail ciera, oi i\uw Orleans. The injured are: Ed Palmer, n a>l clerk, of Memphis; Engineer McKeer, of'McComhirty, Miss.; Fireman E. A.. Ames, of MoCombrity,, Miss; Baggagemaster G. G. Farrell. TJie wreck was caused by the engine leaving the track and plunging down a fifteen-foot embankment, carrying with it the baggege car, mail, library car and two Pullmans. The remainder of the train remained on the track. The wreckage caught fire and the bodies of the dead mail clerks were cremated. Col. Wm. C. Crane, of New Orleans, w.ho was officer of the day during the recent Snriner drills at New Orleans, was on the train and organized a relief crew, taking the passengers out through the windows. Procuring fire extinguishers from the mail car, Mr. Crane and .his fellow passengers played streams on the flames in an effort to rescue the mail clerks, but without any effect on the tire. A few of the passengers sustained minor bruises, but none were seriously injured. It is said Supt. Hill ii.' other division c tib ials w:io have Iwn making ?. n investigation, are convinced that the train was deliberately wrecked and it is stated that special agent of the company have secured a clue to the guilty parties. The cause of the derailment was the removal of several fleh plates at rail joints. The train ran a distance of eight rails from the point where first loosed fish plate was found bebefore it jumped the track. Bolts and nuts bearing all evidence of having been freshly unscrewed were picked up along the track at daylight. A rail wrench and bar was also picked up by the side of the track. The bodies of Mail Clerks Hot, Treloar and Woods were recovered and sent to Jackson to be prepared for i burial. R. Ilowze was injured, but not killed, as first reported. COMMON UAH ANI) SLANDERER. i # That Is What Harvie Jordan Says Tom Watson Is. Harvie Jordan, former editor of . the Cotton Journal, of Atlanta, announces his intention of appearing at once before Fulton county's grand j jury and charging Tos. E. Watson, i editor of the Jeffersonian, with libel. , "I mean to press the charges against Mr. Watson without delay," . said Mr. Jordan Monday, so, as the , grand jury meets again Thursday, it . is probable that Mr. Jordan's charges , will be presented to it then. Tn a recent issue of the Weekly , Jeffersonian Mr. Watson made certain charges against Mr. Jordan in , connection with the Cotton Journal and the Southern Cotton association. In a letter dated Atlanta, April 10th, Jordan responded by a vigorous denial of everything said by Watson reflecting upon him, and said ho proposed to present Watson's "slanderous accusations to the Ful| ton county grand jury and make him prove his charges or stand convicted I as a common liar and slanderer." ? SCORES 111M POl'XDIT. ?, I Thinks Patterson Should Re Tarred and Fentliered. The Doublin, C.a., Courier-Dispatch says "if lynching was ever justilled it is justified in Tennessee, j The people of that State have been I put on notice hv t.he governor that I his henchmen can, whenever they ijlike, shoot down his political eno> mles and go soot free lie has tra' duced the great office of governor, | has turned a red-.handed criminal ' loose upon the people, has violated ! nrorv instinct of a gentleman and ! has outraged law, order and decency. The people of Tennessee owe it to ; themselves and to the country to | impeach this man, tar and feather ; j him and ride him out of the state 011 a rail, lie is a menace to good gov. 1 eminent, to decent society, to a civ> ilized community. The Cooper case > will for a long time hold the hoards ? as the most conspicious example of 1 the miscarriage of justice that this ? country lias ever known." j t ? Killed About Itoo/.e, Dave Durham, colored, shot, and I killed p. s. Maze, colored, near Mt. Pleasant church, six miles south of Greenville. Durham made a partial L confession Tuesday at the county Jail. Fought over a pint of whiskey. THE PEOPLE WON i Sends a Real Democrat to Congress in Place of a Republican by ? . . A DECISIVE MAJORITY From the Thirty-second New York Congressional District for First Time in Twenty Years.?Democrat ? ..... l * mil \%lii i rtClVWClllHI tin in iivivii.i Republican Candidate Stood Pat. A dispatch from Rochester, N. Y., says between 6,000 and 8,000 voters of IMIonroe County changed from the Republican to the Democratic column Tuesday and elected the first Democratic CongiCesman that has represented the 32d district in 2 0 years. James S. Havens, a Democrat, running on a tariff reform platform, defeated George W. Aldridge, for a score of years the ruler of the county Republican organization, by 5,900 votes. Monroe County, which comprises the 32d Congressional district, is normally Republican by about 6,t 000. James B. Perkins, whose death | in the middle of his third Congressional term necessitated a special election Tuesday, carried the district in 1908 by 10,167 votes. Taking the vote of the Presidential year, 1908, for comparison, the total turnover of the district was 8,03 3. It is acknowledged, however, that Dnrtin'o mtp in that vear was I*i I . i v; i iv i n v* . >yVv v. abnormal, and accepting the average Republican plurality as a standard, the change from the Republican to the Democratic columns amounts to aboHt 6,000. Havens had hi rayed againt him one of the strongest political organizations in the -State. Yet in a campaign lasting but seventeen days, and with a hastily constructed machine he accomplished one of the most remarkable overturns in political history. The result of the election takes its place beside the Democratic victory in the 14th Massachusetts district, where Eugene N. Foss was sent to Congress from a district supposed to be as roekribbed Republican as this one. Mr. Haven's platform advocated tariff reform in the interests of the consumer, revision of the duties on wool and woolen goods, a removal of the tax on hides and lumber, a removal of the tariff on iron ore, an income tax ami iinany, am ui;ulilift c.s | inadmissible all political losses of any party. Mr. Aldridge, his opponent, contented himself with general proclamations in favor of the policies of the Republican Administration. On the tariff proposition he was regarded as a stand-patter. The Democrats acknowledged that one of the main factors in the reversal of political sentiment was a personal issue raised by Aldridge's record as a party boss and evidence presented at the recent fire insurance investigation. Mr. A Id ridge acknowledged that he received a $ 1 ,000 check, but said he turned the money into the treasury of the Republican organization. This so-called niroal issue was taken up by the citizens, and clergymen announced themselves in Havens favor. Mr. Aldridge's defense ' I Uoolf was tlint nis recoru siuuu iwi ..ox... The overturn in the city was from a Republican plurality of 6,215, in tlic Congressional elections of 1908, to a plurality for Havens of 3,74 6. The towns, which in 1908 went Republican by 3.972, gave Havens a plurality of 2,154. ? ? MI KDKKI-T COM KSSHS. Implicates Two Oilier Negroes in the Foul Reed. For t.he killing of aged Zaek Ilendrick, a merchant near Harlem, (la., last December, Julian Lambkin, a negro. was hanged at. Appling Tuesday. Re fore going to the gallows the condemned man made a full confession and stated that Charley Allen and Sam Lambkin were equally guilty in the murder. These two negroes were arrested soon after the killing of Kendriek, but later were released and now cannot bo found. The negro gave the usual advice to a crowd of negroes who surrounded the Jail and t.hen died bravely. ? ?, IVdsoned by Wood Alcohol. " " i''1-" * "f I 1 ii inr'ivil \T r?rl t - I TO I . w ii i ui?;.y , vm i i ci i t ... v. . mil School, who examined tlio stomachs of Daniel 10. Sullivan and William 1). Porrin, two of the 111 persons believed to have died from the effects of drinking whiskey supposed to contain wood alco.hol, reported Thursday having found wood alcohol in Sullivan's stomach, but there was no evidence of poison in Perrin's. ? pound on Snmllmr. Christen U Jensen, aged twentyfour. a Mormon preacher, was found dead 0:1 a sandbar in the Arkansas river al*out eight miles cast of Idttle Rock Tuesday night. He has heon missing since March 6. lie had been [dead about three days. There is no suspicion cf foul play. ' WILL BE IN RACE GEN. HOYI> SAYS HIS ASSISTANT DECEIVED HIM. Withdraws His Support of Mayor Hr<hk and Will Ho a Candidate for He-election. The Columbia Record says warm interest is being manisfested in the coining race for adjutant general on account of the break between (icneral J. C. Boyd and his assistant, Col. T. W. Brock, who have served together for four years. Following the announcement of the candidacy of Colonel Brock, accompanied by the announcement of the retirement of General Boyd a - 1 -1 ? M* 11 IF rvn _ week iifio, uenerai noyu huui ui^ dorsing the candidacy of his assistant and retiring in his favor, General Boyd Tuesday announced his reentry into the race, taking back all the kind things he said about Colonel Brock and claiming that the latter deceived him and induced him to retire under false representations. General Boyd's opinion of Colonel Brock is intimated in an advertisement which he has prepared for publication. Colonel Brock is absent on an inspection tour, but it is known that he is loaded with a large battery of explosives for his chief, and the atmosphere is expected to become sulphuric in the immediate future. In the meantime Colonel Henry T. Thompson, who retired recently from the colonelcy of the Second regiment, has decided to enter the race for adjutant general. lie has scores of friends in every section of the- State and will be warmly supported. It is expected that there will bo still other entries since the camp of the ins is so badly disrupted bv internal strife. Capt. P. K. McCully, adjutant of the First egiment, ha*] been si>oken of as likely to become a candidate, but he has written Colonel Brock that he has no suc.i :r-j tention and that he will support Colonel Brock. rVAT.Vlttfl IIUW OI,l> ('BOMBS. JL a A I J IB M J m r m M m m ? m. ^ __ Brynn ami Taft Ifnve lx>ng Chat at White House. Wm. JenningB Bryan and President Taft ep*>nt in ore than an hour closeted together at the White House late Tuesday. The two great travellers exchanged reminiscences, it is said, and both commented upon how well the ot.her was looking. The President rather intimated that being beaten at the polls did not seem to be such a bad thing for one's health and happiness after all. "The call was purely a social one," said Mr. Bryan. "Did you discuss the tariff bill?" was asked. "No," smiled the Nebraskan. "We forgot all about it." "Or politics?" "No, that did not occur to us either." Both the President and Mr. Bryai seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed the quiet chat, Mr. Bryan walked in Democratic fashion to the White House. He was received with unusual courtesy by the attaches and was shown without a moment's delay into the President's office. Mr. Bryan left at 7.55 Tuesday night for Lincoln, Neb. DEATH PENALTY KOli .ill RDKH. Trembling and Crying Man Dies in Electric Cliair. Showing fear in every movement and expressing it in a voice that tremblingly muttered "Oh, God! oh, God!" Earl B. Hill, convicted on May 7, 1 900, of the murder on August, 21 008. of Eldridge Davis, a farmer, living at Bainbridge, Chenago county,, N. Y., was put to death in t.he electric chair in Auburn prisson Tuesday. One contact of 1,850 volts at eight amperes and of a minutes' duration was all that was required to carry the law's mandates into effect. Hill passed his 21 st birthday in the prison four days ago. His crime had as its motives revenge and robbery. He and David If. Borst, now a life convict in the prison,, murdered Davis in his pasture lot. Six shots were fired into the victim. Then they robbed the body of a gold watch, the only thing of value that they r\*\. I, i i fill /I Unrat first arrested. laid tho crime upon Mill. The latter, suspected of tho murder, surrendered on August HO. lie was placed on trial at Norwich on May 7th, was found guilty and sentenced to death. ? I/oss Ten Million. At ivs Moines, Iowa, Secretary Green, of tho state horticultural department estimated that the loss of Iowa's fruit and vegetable crop from the freezing weather will bo between five and ten million dollars. Snow is falling in many parts of Iowa. ? ? ? Killed in Street Kiglit. A special from Prince Rupert, Mon., Tuesday says: "C. Heaton, known as the 'Colorado Kid,' was fatally p.hot by Detective McKensie In a street fight. McKensie was formerly a Cincinnati newspaper reporter. t HIGH LIVING COST Gave Victory to Democrats Is Successful Canidate's Theory of Result. VICTORY OVER CANNONISM t The Democratic Victory Has Idttle Hearing on State Politics Except as ltcgards the Issue of "ISossJkiu"?Itevised Heturns Cut Down Haven's IMm'ality Somewhat. In the first flush of victory tho friends of James S. Havens, the Democrat who was elected to congress Tuesday i>y a large plurality In ono of the strongest Republican districts in the state of New York, or in fact, in the whole country, are already talking Habens for governor this fall. Judging from the conservative tenor of the successful candidate's remarks, however, he accepts his victory as bearing little on the political situation in the State except as regards the issue of "bossism.." "This is not wholly a partisan victory," said Havens. "It is a victory over the things for which Cannon has stood and for the ideals which Governor Hughes typifies. The Hughes Republicans declare that although Haven's election shows that the people of the district are dissatisfied with Hie tariff policy of Uie Republican national administration and with the political control of George W. Aldridge, Havens' defeated opponent, the result entrenches Governor Hughes and his policy more strongly than ever. According to Mr. Havens, the high cost of living was mainly responsible for Tuesday's political revolution. Revised returns from the towns reduce allvens' plurality slightly, making the figures 5,440 for the district. MR. RRYAN IS RACK. Snvs Chances foi* Democrats Is lTnu3 iially KncouraKing. William J. Bryan came homo Monday from South America. He reached New York With absolutely no ideas, ro far as willing to admit, about the political affairs ?n tula country. "The late subject of my trip" he said, "was a study of economic am! sociological conditions in South A merica." "What are the chances of the Democratic party?" "Good, a!way** good," was Bryan's reply. He thought the chances of the party in the coming congressional election unusually bright. He was asked if he would consider another candidacy for presidency. "I have said all I am going to say on that subject," be replied emphatically. "I think my position is undeistood perfectly. He hardly thought it necessary to deny stories that he was to become a candidate for tho United States Senate and that he was going to embrace the prohibition movement. "O? WANTS MONEY WASHED. ! and tno size or am i-aper .uoney Bedueed One Half. "We must wash our currency hills to prevent their conveying disca&o germs, and reduce I hem in size, so that they will better fit our pockethooks, before wo will have approached the ideal in cur medium of exchange,," says .lames MacVeagh, son of Franklin Maceagh, secretary of the United States treasury, before the South Side Business Men's Association, of Chicago,, Monday. Mr. MacVeagh exhibited a dollar bill, half of which had been washed in chemicals at the Philadelphia mint and the other half left as it was when received. There was tho same noticeable difference as in a clean collar and one worn a week without changing. Mr. MacVeagh said the government would save from $200,000 to $000,000 annually by washing its paper currency instead of destroying it. TIIIHI) ItKCilMKXT IIOXOBKD By Being Selected to (io to Chitamaiiga This Summer. This State's allotment for maneuvers this summer being only $23,AAA - ?i CC I ? 1 A t f/v nn anhe'ei ziUOA n /} www, <S 11 11 11 l * ' 11 i iu |'<?J oil i.'n.nu in v % ?** t ranspartat ion, Gen. Boyd Monda> decided to send only one regiment to Chica manga and designated the Third regiment which will spend July 15 to 2 4 inclusive at Chicleamau-gua. The Third camped at Aiken last year. The other two regiments will camp in the State. Towns wanting them should get in their bids. ? ? ratal Pistol Pight. At Indianapolis, Ind., Patrolman Joseph Jefferson Krnpp and Patrolman Alfred C. Groves was wounded in a revolver battle with two tramps or "yeggmen" early Tuesday. Walter Whltoloek and George Donghlaso of Pittsburg were arrested and charged with the shooting.