The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-10
TESTS REVEAL
RICH WOMAN
WAS MURDERED
Enough Mercury Found in
Body to Have Killed
Ten Persons
SMALL DOSES GIVEN
Witnesses Declare They Say
Shepherd Gave Liquid
To Heirs Mother
SMALL DOSES GIVEN
(By The Associated Press)

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Chicago, April lO-Enough mer-
curry poisoning to have killed two
persons has been found in the body
of Mrs. Emma McClintock, mother of
William N. McClintock, orphan mil
lionaire. whom William D. Shepherd,
his foster father, is charged with
killing with typhoid germs, according
to Coroner Oscar Wolff.
The coroner's formal statement, is
sued after his chemist reported re-
suits of tests made on' her body, dis
inferred after sixteen years burial,
declared that in all probability the
poison I. was given to her between ten
and fifteen days before her death.
When Mrs. McClintock died in
Chicago shortly after visiting the
Shepherds who lived in Texas, her
will placed her son under the guar
dianship of Mrs. Shepherd, with
whom she had attended Kansas col
lege. with fee of $4,000 a year.
1T is very evident" said Coroner
VOLTS statement. that the poison
was administered to Mrs. McClintock
IN small doses. showing that maybe
SIX or seven potions were given her.
"The poison necessarily must have
been administered by subterfuge on
food or in medicine, and therefore it
must have been given by someone in
Mrs. McClintock's close confidence,
one of her attendants. Certainly she
would not accept such services from
strangers.
"The amount of mercury found is
in itself proof that it was not taken
as medicine, or accidentally, or
with suicidal intent. If that amount
had been taken in one dose, resulting
commissions, would have been so vio-
lent as to indicate at once to the
attending physician that the patient
had been poisoned.
"Our investigation indicates there
were no commissions only bloated
condition of the body that seemed
suspicious enough to cause one wit
ness to believe at the time post
mortem should have been performed"
DR.. William D. McNally, coroner's
chemist, who examined the body of
Mrs. McClintock, has not completed
analysis of the vital organs of DR..
Oscar Olson, McClintock's family
physician, whose body was disinterr-
ed at the same time as that of Mrs.
McClintock.
Detectives who checked all the
medical prescriptions given Mrs. Nc
Clintock during her last illness, an
nounced none of them showed that
mercury or its compounds had been
contained in them. Search was start
ed following Coroner VOLTS state
ment for witnesses of her last mo-
ments.
COL sn,sk
by Judge Olson. who will testify
death of Mn. McClintock and DR..
Olson is resumed after the chemical
analysis are completed. One of
these, man named Eaton, has said,
according to Judge Olson, that he
saw Shepherd give Mrs. McClintock
liquid from bottle during her trip
to the southwest, from which she re-
turned to die. Another, St. Louis
woman, has made a statement that
Mrs. McClintock was apparently in
the best of health when she passed
through st. Louis on her way to Wis
it the Shepherds.
Action by the states attorney on
the coroner's chemists report will
not be taken, Robert E. Grove, states
attorney said, until the completion
of the coroner's inquest into the
death of Mrs. McClintock and DR..
Olson.
In the meantime the Coroner was
preparing to resume the inquest in
to the death of "Billy" McClintock,
who the state charges was killed by
Shepherd by the innoculation of ty-
phoid germs, and the states attorney
was showing interest in the death of
Mrs McC1intOck
The death of DR.. Oscar Olson, a
friend Of the McClintock family as
we'll as the McClintock's physician
who died three years ago was being
put through the same chemical analy-
sis as in the case of Mrs. McClintock
and her son. The chemists report
in this case is expected tomorrow or
Monday. Both state and defense re.
presentatives are desirous of an ear
ly trial with some possibility that
the trial may get under way by the
end of April.
"Our case is ready and we can
proceed with the trial at any time"
said Attorney Stewart. I'VE are not
afraid of this propaganda which is
being conducted for the purpose of
poisoning the public mind and l am
confident we will show there is no
Shepherd"
First assistant states attorney.
George E. German, asserted the state
would like an immediate trial and
that "any day the court will set is
suitable to the state"
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