The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-06-18
BILLY'S NURSE
STATE WITNESS
Relates Incidents of Last
Illness of Millionaire
McClintock Youth.
TESTIMONY BY BANKER
Shows Shepherds Need for
Money on Account of Last
Sickness Expense.

Chicago, Ill. - - Only seven
more state witnesses remained today
TO be called in the trial of William
D. Shepherd for the murder of Will
liam N. McClintock, and the prose-
cution's case, it was announced,
probably would be completed by to-
morrow evening.
Court opened at 1925 O'Clock with
Miss Marie Hall, nurse, attended
young McClintock in his last illness,
being called as the first witness.
Miss Hall testified that upon her
arrival at the Shepherds, McClintock
home week after "Billy" McClintock
became i'll, the youth was delirious.
She testified also that Shepherd had
told her that "Billy" had said, prior
to a doctors diagnose that he had
typhoid fever, and that Shepherd
told her, he had given the youth
catharic.
Acted on Doctors Instructions.
Upon cross examination the nurse
said that she had acted upon specific
instructions of the doctors. She said
She observed nothing unusual at the
Shepherd McClintock home and that
Shepherd appeared as the usual father
of an i'll son, would. Shepherd ex-
pressed anxiety over the boys con-
dition, she testified.
Miss Hall testified also that Miss
Isabelle Pope, fiancee of Billy, was
excluded from the sick room in the
final stage of the youths illness up
on orders of the doctors. The nurse
admitted that in the prescribed treat
ment of the youth, she administered
hypodermic injections, thereby ac-
counting for three punctures in young
McClintock's arm noted in the post
norton examination December "a, 1924
after he had been dead twenty days.
Shepherd Needed Money.
L. C. Macarthur, assistant secretary
of the Northern Trust company, tes-
titled that Shepherd visited him dur
ing Billy's illness and sought an adj
vance of money. The expenses of
Billy's illness had caused his personal
finances to run low, Macarthur said.
He told Shepherd, Macarthur said, that
he could not advance money but if
the bills were sent in they would be
paid by the Northern Trust, which
was in custody of the $1,000,000 Nc
Clintock estate.
Macarthur also testified that Shep-
herd had told him BILLY" at the in
ception of his illness had feared it
was typhoid. Macarthur said he re-
marked on that comment as strange.
The trust company official was not
cross examined further than this ques-
ton by William Scott Stewart, chief
of defense counsel:
so far as you know all the state
ments Mr.. Shepherd made were true %
eyes" was the response.
William A. Miller, reporter for
the Chicago Tribune, testified as to
an interview he had with Shepherd
shortly after McClintock's death, in
which the defendant was quoted as
having said the youth had loved his
foster parent.
Cross examination of Miller was
reserved as the defense did not have
letter to which reference had been
made.
| The prosecution was hurrying thru
its witness list with an evident de-
sire quickly to reach the climax Of
its case, which it started presenting q
week ago today after it had taken
three weeks and three days to get
jury.
Ebert M. Allen, court reporter,
was introduced to identify a state
ment Shepherd made to George E.
German, first assistant states at
torney.
Robert E. Grove states attorney,
participated in the trial for the. first
time during the day when he read the
statement to the jury.
The reading had not been COM
pleted at 1890 p. m. when court
recessed until 200 p. m.