The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-18
Affections Not Returned

ne stayed IIlree years. working LOT
Bohme and going to high school. He
did not graduate.
Affections Not Returned
shepherd was attracted to
Bohme's daughter during his stay
at the home" said the attorney.
But when his affection was not re-
turned, and she became engaged to
another, he left the house and went
back to his folks. who also lived UP
along Hosbrook. For a while he and
his stepfather engaged in the coal
business in their back yard. Shep-
herd had Joined the National Guard,
and about this time the Spanish
War broke out. He was sent to Chat.
tanooga, Tenn, and later to Knox
vile. That was the extent of his
fighting, as the company was
brought back to Indianapolis and
music red out"
After the war Shepherd tried the
real estate business a while, and
then drifted west 20 Salina, Kan,
opening another phase Of his career.
This was about 1903.
According to the deposition of w.
w. Watson, of that city. he went to
work in Watson's wholesale grocery.
Here he suffered another accident
that had great influence on his life.
Another Accident
One day while stacking up tomato
cans he fell and was severely hurt.
AS happened in indianapolis when
he was hurt, he was taken to a
neighbours house-that OF a Luther
an preacher across the street.
According to the testimony I
gathered at Salina," said Walton,
"he was carried into the home of
the father of Miss Julia Graf, who
is now Mrs. Shepherd"
shepherd, who was in a serious
condition, told them he had a large
amount of life insurance and sug-
gested marriage with the daughter.
The wedding took place then and
there. while he was still sick After
wards he recovered"
Fate's Wheels Turn Around
This phase of Shepherds history
bears a striking similarity to that
of young Billy McClintocl, who in
tended to be married on his death
bed to Miss Isabelle Pope, Chicago
beauty, but whose plan, unlike Shep-
herds, was frustrated by the cold
hand of death.
While talking to the Times re-
porter, Shepherd corrected a detail
of this part.
"I was taken to her brothers.
house. not her fathers" he said,
taking mis- mind for a moment off
the stirring events Of his present
life and letting it bark back to the
time of his clerkship in Kansas.
NAV, / think I must have met
my wife before I was hurt out
there he said when asked about
that point.
Attorney Walton, however, said
he had sworn dispositions of Salina
persons to bear out his statements.
After his recovery the young man
went to work as a clerk in the drug
store of his wife's brother, Ed Graf,
selling peppermints and mixing
drugs, though not pharmacist.
Walton said. For four or five years
he worked as a druggist, which
probably explained another state
ment he made to the reporter about
test tubes.
Sure, I know what a test tube
is" he exclaimed, when asked about
some of Faiman's confession. 81
wouldn't have to go to school to
learn that, though"
Had No License
when the brother died, Shepherd
kept on running the drug store
without pharmacists license, I
learned" said Walton. HE was
finally arrested on that charge, and
forced to cut it out"
Mrs. Shepherd had been a girl
hood friend of Mrs. McClintoclx, it
appears. After the termination of
the drug store career, the Shepherds
moved to Chicago. where Mrs. Shep-
herd renewed her friendship with
Mrs. 'McClintock-opening up the
last phase OF Shepherds career, that
of handling the ill-fated McClintock
millions, popularity reputed to have
a curse on them.
Now the State of illinois is trying
to prove that Shepherd is the
Course" who has followed the for
tune.
1t was in 1907 Shepherd came to
Chicago. A little later he and Mrs.
McClil took went to Bay View.
Texas, to arrange about building the
family a winter home there. Mrs.
McClintock became sick. and soon
died. Mrs. Shepherd was appointed
one Of the co-guardians Of Orphan
Billy. and Shepherd managed the
large estate until the young million
aire, Just 81. died last December
from typhoid fever.
Billy Got $50 a Month
Records in Probate Court show
The Shepherds allowed Billy $50 a
month spending money while he was
attending Dartmouth, wherS he be-
ionged to the Phi Delta Theta fra
ternity. At other times they allowed
him d little more. ~
Shepherd stayed in his littls. hotel