The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-06-27
CROWD CHEERS
WHEN VERDICT
ANNOUNCED
Jury Deliberates Less Than
Six Hours and Only Six
Ballots We're Taken
RELEASED FROM JAIL
Heir to McClintOck Fortune
Will Not Be Tried on
Other Charges

Chicago. June 27.-LP)-Wil-
liam Darling Shepherd was found
not guilty of using typhoid
germs to kin WiIiiam Nelson
McClintock, his millionaire fos-
ter sCn. afker the jury trying
him deliberated five hours and
forty minutes last night.
Within a half hour he was
freed from the county Jail, where
he has been since March 18th, on
his personal bond of $1,000 on
the charge of staying Mrs. Emma
Nelson McClintock, williams
mother.
1t was said at the criminal
court building that six ballots
Rad been taken by the jury. the
result of the first being IL TO 1
for acquittal.
The verdict was considered by
Shepherds attorneys as ending all
possibilities of further criminal pro-
ceedings against him. 1t gave him
the presumptive ownership of the
McClintock estate left him by Nc
Clintock's will pending final action
in a suit to break the will started
by nine cousins of the dead youth.
Spectators Cheer
A burst of cheers, despite warn
ings of bailiffs against any demon
stration, came from the spectators
when the verdict was announced by
William Burnett, foreman.
Flashlights doomed as news photo
graphers stampeded the jury and
with broad smile wreathing the
face of the accused.
Shepherd and his. attorneys. Will
liam Scott Stewart and w. w.
O'Brien, shook hands and thanked
each jurymen as he filed from the
box. Mrs. Julie Shepherd, his wife,
was not in the courtroom.
Attorney Stewart, who argued
throughout the trial that his client
was the victim Of plot, said he
was "sorry the jury was not allowed
to voice its verdict against those
who plotted against Shepherd. But
the jury decision is in reality a
finding Of guilt for the plotters- It
is another proof Of the scancity Of
the jury system"
Much Left Out
Miss Isabel Pople, fiancee of
young McClintock, who waited at his
death bed with a license to wed him
if he recovered, said the verdict was
what she expected.
"There was so much left out-so
much detail that was important to
the whole story, that didn't see how
the jury could convict Shepherd"
she said
Judge Olson, who last night de-
clared the states attorney had not
given his best effort to the prose
cution Of Shepherd and who said
several witnesses who were not
called should have been used. was
almost ignored by Prosecutor Grove
in his remarks today, but he was
plainly wrathful over the jury's
charges.
The prosecutor declared he would
60 before the grand jury and ask
that mo bill" be returned. exoner-
ating Shepherd in the case of the
death Of Mrs. McClintock.
Mr.. Grove was plainly determined
to drop the Shepherd matter from
now on, regardless Of Judg Olson's
assertion last night that the case
was not over yet.
Shepherd Is Silent
"The jury's verdict speaks for it
self and I have no reply. at least at
present. for Olson," said Shepherd.
He added that he had not decided
what action to take with regard to
Charles C. Faiman. the head of an
unrecognized school of sciences. who
told a story that he had taught
Shepherd how to maintain typhoid
culture and to administer the germs
to produce death.
While the prosecutor and Judge
Olson were at odds over the handling
Of the case, Shepherd and his wife
were happy together.
They had gone away together last
night to Chicago apartment. which
Mrs. Shepherd had arranged for, and
where she has provided a dinner for
themselves and close friends, and to-
day we're to return to their home in
Kenliworth, where they had lived
with Billy until his death last Dec. d.