Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back and took him aside for a talk in whispers. Afterward the General bantered with newshawks: "We have had only a slight misunderstanding as to the timing of the new plan. . . . I'm going off for a vacation of two weeks and then I'm going up to Hyde Park and talk over the final reorganization. . . . That's all there's to it! Nothing serious...
Twenty-five years ago the name of Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde was in the headlines of every U. S. newspaper as a cold-blooded murderer. A young practitioner, he had married the niece of rich old Thomas H. Swope of Kansas City, who lived in a large country place near Independence. In October 1909 Dr. Hyde was called to Independence to care for another of his wife's uncles, old James Moss Hunton who was down with apoplexy. Dr. Hyde took two quarts of blood out of Uncle Moss and the patient promptly died. Two days later Uncle...
...these three deaths Dr. Hyde was put on trial in Kansas City. An autopsy showed that the capsule given Uncle Tom contained strychnine. The State charged that Dr. Hyde had murdered to reduce the size of the Swope family, increase his wife's share in the $3,500,000 Swope estate. (She got $118,000.) Dr. Hyde's defense was that all three had died in the course of ethical medical practice...
...jury found Dr. Hyde guilty of murder and the judge sentenced him to life imprisonment. An appeal brought a new trial which broke up when a juror went mad. The third Hyde trial ended with a jury disagreement in 1913. For four years more the Swopes egged the prosecutors on, then weary of the expensive procedure they agreed to let the indictment against Dr. Hyde be dropped. Dr. Hyde took a job loading sand trucks in Kansas City, later moved to rural Lexington where he had a small practice...
...Hyde loyally sided with her husband. In 1915 she bore him a son, in 1917 a daughter. In 1920 she divorced him for "cruelty and violence." Last week when Dr. Hyde dropped dead. Mrs. Hyde and her grown children were en route to Seattle for a vacation...