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Title
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Thomas Swope Death
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Description
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Collection of clippings about the murder of Colonel Swope in his bedroom with perhaps poison by Dr. Hyde.
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Thomas Swope Murder Case
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Description
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A collection of 130 pages of photocopied articles from local newspapers focused on determining whether or not Colonel Thomas Swope was poisoned. Swope died in October of 1909, and his son-in-law, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, was eventually charged with his murder and found guilty in 1910. Hyde appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court, and two controversial retrials ended in hung juries and a fourth was never held. Swope's death remains a mystery. Each article is annotated with its date and source of publication.
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Thomas Swope
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Description
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File contains photos and other sources of information as well as a two-part article about the murder of Colonel Thomas Swope by his physician Dr. B. Clark Hyde in 1909 as well as the trial.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Colonel Thomas Swope
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Description
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Chapters of the book about Colonel Thomas Swope (1827-1909), a prominent real estate owner in early Kansas City presumably poisoned to death by his physician, Dr. B. Clark Hyde. Description of his life, death, and murder trial.
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Date
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1948
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Bennett Clark Hyde, M.D.
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Description
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Photograph portrait of Dr. B. Hyde Clark published in the 1901-1903 edition of Register of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Missouri.
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Date
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1903
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde Composite
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Description
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Composite view of Dr. B. Clark Hyde, defendant in Thomas Swope murder case. Includes images of trial. Hyde is pictured across the top left and middl. The person pictured bottom-center is Hyde's wife, Frances Hunton Swope (1879-1964). She was the daughter of Logan O. Swope and Maggie Chrisman. Logan was a brother of Thomas H. Swope of Swope Park fame. The persons at top right and bottom left and right are unidentified.
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Date
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1910~
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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Thomas Swope
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Description
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Biographical article about wealthy real estate investor Thomas Hunton Swope, or Thomas Swope (1827-1913), with a comprehensive chronology of the events dealing with his death and subsequent murder trial of his physician Dr. B. Clark Hyde, starting with the doctor's marriage in 1906 to Swope's daughter Francis Hunton Swope, or Francis Swope.
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Date
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1913-03-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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The Verdict of History: Examining Missouri's Judicial Record
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Description
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Article about the history of Missouri's judicial record back to its days as Spanish territory in the late 1700s, with about half the article about Kansas City judicial history, including a photo and description of Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, or Bennett Hyde, accused of murdering Colonel Thomas Swope.
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Date
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2000
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Was It Murder?
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Description
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Story of the murder trial of Dr. Bennet Hyde, the physician of Colonel Thomas Swope, discussing the probability of his responsibility for Swope's death, with illustration.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Here Lies Col. Swope
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Description
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Article details the life and mysterious death of Colonel Thomas Swope. The author includes details of Swope's character and the "naive" philanthropies of his life, as well as an examination of his death and the subsequent trials of Dr. Clark Hyde for his alleged murder.
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Date
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2004-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Murder of Thomas Swope
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Description
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Entire chapter of the book on details about the "Hyde Murder Case," including testimonies.
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Date
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1929
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Object Type
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Book
