The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-12
NO MYSTERY
IN DEATH OF
SHEPHERD
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tC0mbioue0 trom rage OmeD.
given to DIR. Clark for analysis. DIR.
Clark will not be able to make his
report until Saturday. at the
earliest.
DR.. Ernest M. Currie. of No. 1897
Fort.st, west, Is the physician who
attended Shepherd for three years.
Although q sensational report In a
morning paper stated that Shepherd
had been III "only seven weeks" Or.
Currie said he had developed brass
poisoning mt least three years ago.
Shepherd had worked in q brass
foundry since his childhood.
when he came to me-" said DR..
currie, II told him he had to quit
working in the brass foundry at
once. There have been many cases
OF brass poisoning In this section OF
the city. where many OF the foundry
workers live. Shepherds was a
typical case. His limbs became
numb. and his organs. the liver
and the lungs. became enlarged.
Towards the end his skin changed
to peculiar, CHASTITY hue. which Is
a well-known symptom OF this form
OF poisoning. II there had been ar.
senic in his system, would have
known 1t from various examinations
I made"
DIR. George C. Hardy. Of No. 37s
Artillery-ave.. was the last physician
who attended Shepherd DR.. Hardy
refused to state. Friday. what he
believed was the cause Of death.
He said 1t would not be ethical To
discuss the case. DR.. Hardy was
the sixth physician called in by
Shepherd In six weeks, since DIR.
Currie ceased attending him.
when Shepherd saw that sec.
ond attack of the benumbing sensa.
tons was coming upon him." said
Or. Currie, "he seemed 20 lose hope
and grow desperate. He called one
physician after another. His limbs
had become numb and he had the
other symptoms of brass poisoning
in milder form. when first Wis
tied him"
In the little home on Campbell.
ave. frightened widow and her
loyal step-daughter stood side by
side, Friday. The girl, Phyllis
Shepherd. 16 years old. held the
newspaper with the glazing head
lines and their ugly differences. She
stared apprehensively at the door
each time she heard footsteps pass
the house.
"She thinks the patrol wagon Is
coming smiled the widow, Mrs.
Anna Shepherd. A gold chain and
a fraternal fob dangled from the
widows hands
That's what / bought him for his
last birthday" she said at was
the only time I had been out of the
house In eight weeks"
Mrs Shepherd and her step-daugh.
ter, very pretty girl. are INSOFAR
able. The step-mother suspects that
plot TO take the girl from her is
at the bottom OF tho gruesome i'm
rutations made againts her.
THE last thing my husband said.
as he lay on his death bed. was that
he wanted Phyllis to stay with me-"
said Mrs. Shepherd. HE called both
Of us into his room. He told us he
didn't want to die, because he had
been happy with US, but IL he had
to go he said he was ready. Phyllis,
he said. you stay with your Ma.
She will take care Of you. You have
the home and the grocery store 70
keep you your lifetime
Phyllis stood by as her step-motAer
spoke and added that she proposed
TO do as her father had said, regard
less OF what other relatives tried to
do. Mrs. Shepherd said her husband
had opened a grocery in the rear of
their home. with money she had
wnen she married him. 1t was her
money. also. she said, which pur-
cascd the little cottage in which they
lived. There Is a mortgage OF ST..
900 on the place.
Jim was good man." she said,
"and We lived happily. I gave him
everything l had. took his three
children into my home and gave
them my bed. For eight weeks
did not leave this house. II he was
poisoned with arsenic the arsenic