The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24
TYPHOID' KILLS BOY
 THREE WEEKS AGO
Miss Isabelle Pope, Bene- ficiary, Frustrated In
 Wedding Attempt
FIGHT OVER WILL
 TO BEGIN SOON
Foster Parents Receive Bulk Of S2,OOO,OOO Estate-Rel-
 atives To Open Suit
lRy Associated Press.

(By Associated Press.)
 CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-An inves- tigation into the death of William McClintock, known as the million aire orphan" who died three weeks ago while his childhood sweetheart stood by his bedside with marriage licerfse which was never used, was started today at the instigatlon of Chief Justice Harry Olson of the municipal court.
 Judge Olson, friend of the McClin- tock family. summoned States Attor- ney Grove to his office and after long conference Mir. Grove said his assist ants will ask Judge Jacob Hopkins, chief justice of the criminal court, to- morrow morning for an order for ex- humation of McClintock's body. The prosecutor said that specialists. includ- ing Dr. Ludwig Kektoen, specialist Tn contagious diseases, would examine the body.
 Obtains License
 According to the death certificate, McClintock died of typhoid fever at the home of Mir. and Mrs. William ID. Shepperd with whom he had lived since the death of his mother when he was four years old. Shortly before is death, Miss Isabelle Pope, his childhood sweet heart, to whom he was engaged, hur- ried to the county building to obtain Il marriage license, expecting to marry him despite his critical condition
 McClintock, however, never recovered consciousness and the minister who was to have officiatPd at the wedding preached his funeral sermon. An ln- vestigation disclosed that the 2l-year- old youth had made q will leaving the bulk of his estate estimate at upwards of S2.OOO.OO0 to the Shepperds. Mrs. Shepperd had been guardian of the estate until McClintGcli became of age last spring. The will also provided that Miss Pope was to receive an annuity Of 5000. Since the will was filed for probate. several persons asserting them selves relatives of the wealthy orphan have filed claims for q share i'll the estate.
 Judge Olson said he had started his investigation into the boy S death i'm medatcly after his demise but refused to state what caused him to become sus- picous. He said his investigation had simply progressed and that he felt it was a matter for the states attorney tc pursue
 Shepperds In New Mexico
 Tho Shepperds, it was reported, are now in Albuquerque, \. M. where they went last Friday. supposedly to remain until February IS, when a contest suit atartel by disappointed cousins of the orphan millionaire is to be heard here. ShPpperd. according to Judge Olson, formerly was a chemist and the Shepperd and McCiutock
 becoming acquainted about ago.
 The coroncr's office tonig .. public an anonymous letter
 two weeks ago in which the t. pressed the belief that young tock had been poisoned and T that had McClintock married death, other disposal would ,t n made of his fortune than tha Ar.r -c in the will
 Family History Trage
 For generations there hs s trail of i'll luck following ca, f.,,,.a.,, ing possessor of the huge 5'c( fortune, which rested for so few '.,- :y in Billy" McClintock's hanCs
 An English nobleman w7ose -aIna has been lost, sent the fortune 70 ADl,f- ica years ago through his w5 v Whr married William Hickling, commone., and emigrated with him. The Hick- lings established themselves and an all most priceless collection of antiques in mansion here. Mrs. Hickling died soon after coming here and her wid- over married Sarah Gensler who out lived Hckling and later took the for tune she inherited to Iowa, where. through some land deals. she became acquainted with William McClintock, treasurer of Plymouth county, Iowa. McClintock married the widow and they. came back 10 Chicago and the hone left by Tickling. Mrs. Me Clntock did not live long after that and McC Clntock married Emma Nelson os LCMarS, Iowa.
 Father Is Killed
 The second Mrs. McClintnck gave the fortune to its first natural heir in gen. erationS in 1903, when William Mel son McClntock was born in the old home here. Five years later the boys father was killed in an automobile ac- cident. About this time the Shep- perds and the McClintocks became ac- quainted and later became members of inc McClintock household. Mrs. Me Clintock lived only two years after her husbands death and when she died the Shpppcrds took care of the little boy.
 He lived with the Shepperds as he grew up, and three years ago went to Dartmouth, which he attended for three years, returning here on account of fll- ness. Miss Pope, his fancee, helped to Iursc him and it was agreed that they should bo married on December 6. De cembcr 4, while his fiancee waited at his bedside with the marriage certifi- cate and minister waited in an ad- joining room to perform the ceremony,