Colonel Swope & Dr. Hyde
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Episode 205 tells the story of a dark shadow that fell over Kansas City when the death of philanthropist Thomas H. Swope resulted in a murder trial, the defendant a member of his own family. Did Dr. Hyde kill the Colonel? And infect the whole family with typhoid, too? Or is he just the victim of a lingering family grudge? Includes an interesting sidebar about a runaway juror.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | Kansas City, Missouri, October 4th, 1909 |
| 0:10.0 | Thomas H. Swope would have been 82 this month. |
| 0:19.4 | He was born in Sanford, Kentucky, October 21st, 1827, the eldest son of a merchant. |
| 0:26.5 | He was graduated from Center College of Danville in 1848. In 1849, he received his degree from Yale, |
| 0:34.8 | where he completed his law course. From Yale, he went to Gainesville, |
| 0:38.9 | Kentucky, where he read law. He never practiced his profession. He went from Gainesville to St. Louis, |
| 0:45.1 | where he stayed several years, coming to Kansas City in 1857. Since that time, he made his home here, |
| 0:53.1 | although he was away for months at a time. |
| 0:56.8 | Colonel Swope had a little money when he came here and he invested in acre tracks in the bottoms |
| 1:01.8 | and uptown. |
| 1:03.0 | He sold some of it in the early days, but much of it remained in his possession. |
| 1:07.8 | He had come west from Kentucky to make his fortune and was not satisfied until he went further west in search of money. |
| 1:14.6 | He became interested in mining and in 1864 he made explorations in the Rocky Mountains where he bought many mines. |
| 1:22.6 | At one time he owned mines in Colorado, Arizona, and Montana. |
| 1:28.2 | All his investments in mines were made after personal investigation. |
| 1:32.8 | Much of the money he made from his mines was invested in Kansas City real estate. |
| 1:37.1 | At the time of his death, he still owned a few mines. |
| 1:42.2 | Mr. Swope bought the Thomas Maston estate 18 years ago and gave to Kansas City |
| 1:47.0 | 1,354 acres, now known as Swoped Park. On June 25, 1896, Kansas City had a Swope Park Jubilee |
| 1:59.0 | in which 18,000 persons took part. |
| 2:02.5 | The only reason that there were not more of the park was that the trains could not carry |
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