Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-07
Demands EXhume
Body His Brother
McClintock Case

Justice Harry OfSon, OF the munlCl-
pal court, who caused the question
| ing of William ID. Shepherd, foster
father of William Nelson McClintock,
millionaire orphan" regarding the
young mans death a month ago, to-
day startled more officials at the in
quest into McClintock's death by de-
r. Oscar Olson, his brother. who died
three years ago.
Judge Olson said that he now be-
lieved that the death of his brother,
q friend of the McClintock family,
had been designed by some one. He
said that he had not taken action be-
fore because he had not learned pre-
! viously that Mr.. Shepherd was alone
/ with his brother a short time before
his death.
A deputy coroner conducting the
inquest said that Judge Olson's re
quest would not be met until he had
made it in writing and had set forth
his grounds for suspicion. Judge OIL
son then charged that the states
attorneys office and coroner had
not made q complete investigation Of
young McClintock's death and were
treating the case ''as n joke He
asked that the inquest be contin-
ued for two or three months for fur-
Their investigation and it was finally
continued until January 20.
McClintock, % years old, died De-
cember 4, at the Shepherd home
while Miss Isabelle Pope. his fiancee.
waited TO marry him. The doctors
thp nf 2anth
as typhoid fever and McClintocks
will left his entire estate to Shep-
herd with the exception OF an $4,000
annuity for Miss Pope.
Two weeks after the death Judge
Olson asked that an investigation be
made. The body was exhumed but
an examination showed death was
caused by typhoid fever. Judge OIL
son had expressed the theory that
McCliniock may have been fed solid
food or that typhoid germs may have
been injected into his body.
The cause of DR.. Olson's death
three years ago, Judge Olson said,
had been given as heart disease
caused by ptomaine poisoning. Later
Judge Olson testified he had learned
Mr. ami Mrs. shepherd had visited
the doctor the day preceding his
. Qe3l0 anu ldu loiIlu llldl toiISpii'l Vs.
who had brought the doctor some
fruit was with him alone few
minutes. This, he said. was the only
visit the Shepherds had made in
nine years.
An acquaintance OF the doctors,
Judge Olson said. had told him that
DR.. Olson had advised McClintock
to have nothing more to do with the
Shepherds when he became of age.
Dr.. Olson had told him, Judge Oh
son said, that he "mistrusted" Shop
herd.
During the morning Judge Olson
had related circumstances surround
ing the death of McChntock's moth
err several years ago. Mrs. McClin-
took, he said. before marriage vas
Emma Nelson. He said he met her
as q child and in Chicago she had
lived for a time with the Olson fam
lily. He related incidents in connec-
ton with Emma Nelson's marriage
to McClintock's father. of the faith
ers death in an automobile accident
and of the mothers illness a short
time later.
He said n woman who said she
vas Mrs. shepherd had called him
to inform him Mrs. MCClintock was
very i'll and an effort had been made
to reach DIR. Olson. His brother, the
Judge testified, had been in his Of
fee for three days before and his
telephone was i'll good order.
Il wasn't able to go to the house
at once" he said. when / did get
there | found that Mrs McChntock
had died and that plans were already
being made for q night funeral. I
looked at the body and it was I'M
usually black ana swollen.
Il didn't Nike the looks OF things.
! asked the minister in charge of the
funeral what all the hurry was for.
III said he had to leave town and
was having the funeral at once be-
cause ne wanted to preach the fu-
neral sermon. | was asked to be
pail bearer and refused for two raa-
sons. In the first place. 7 did not
like tho hurry. For another thing
didn't like tie looks Of the
corpse"
Judge Olson also cast reflections
On the authenticity of Young Nc
Clintocks will
The story Of the will printed i'm
mediately after the death Of Young
McClintock warned from the one
winch came out i'll tie probate
court" he said. According to the
first reports Mr.. Shepherd. Miss
Pope and Mr.. Siegfried, who at one
time, l understand. was engaged to
marry Miss McClintock were men
toned in -he Will. When Shepherd
appeared in the probate court, the
will left an 5000 annuity to Miss
Pope and the bulk of the estate to
himself"
Albuquerque, N. NJ, Jan. 6.-Wil-
liam j. shepherd. tonight branded
as the rawlings of disordered
mind insinuations made by chief
justice Harry Olson of the Chicago
Municipal court that Shepherd might
have been involved in he death of
Clson's brother, DIR. Oscar Olson.
who died three years ago.