Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-27
JURY RENDERS
VERDICT FOR
ACCUSED MAN
Decision in 5 Hours and
40 Minutes; 6 Ballots
Cast, First Being IL to
! for Acquittal
(By The Associated Press.)

tBy The Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 81
William Darling Shepherd was
found not guilty Of using ty-
phoid germs to kill William Mel
son McClintock, his millionaire
foster son, after the jury trying
him deliberated 5 hours and 40
minutes.
Within a half hour he was
freed from the county Jail,
where he has been since March
13, on his personal band of
$4,000 on the charge of Staying
Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock,
Williams mother.
Although members Of the jury would
not divulge how they reached final ar
gument when they reported at 1O:15 last
night. it was said at the criminal courts
building that six ballots had been taken,
the vote from the first standing at Ii
to for acquittal.
The jury said they had taken a coll
lective oath not to reveal what went on
In the jury room even to their own
families
The verdict was considered by Shep-
herds attorneys as ending all possibility
of further criminal proceedings against
him. 1t gave him the presumptive own
ership of the McClintock estate, left him
in McClintock's will. pending final ac-
tion in suit to break the will started
by nine cousins Of the dead youth
Olson to Continue Fight
Despite the jury finding. Judge Harry
Olson. municipal court chief Justice and
instigator of the investigation Of Nc
Clintock's death, will continue to probe
and to prosecute, if that is possible, he
said. During the trial Judge Olson ex~
pressed keen disapproval of the efforts
Of the states attorney and reiterated
his statement when informed of the ac-
quittal.
A burst of cheers, despite warnings
Of bailiffs against any demonstration,
came from the spectators when the ver-
dict was announced by William Burnett,
foreman. Flashlights doomed as news
photographers stamped the jury and
broad smile wreathed the face of the
accused
Shepherd and his attorneys, William
Scott Stewart and W. W. O'Brien, shook
| the hand and thanked each juryman as
he filed from the box after the six
weeks trial. Mrs. Julie Shepherd. hi.
wife, was not in the court room. She
waited with friends at a downtown hotel
where she was joined by Shepherd. his
brother, J. Henry Shepherd Of Little
Rock, Ark, and Robert Stolt his former
law partner.
Triumphant Home Coming
| Today they planned triumphant re-
turn to the home in KenilwoIth, a
l suburb. where they lived with young
T, McClintock after the death Of his moth
.r, 16 years ago. Both said they were
zoo pleased to have anything to say.
| Comment on the verdict was not with
| leld, however. by other principals in the
| :ase.
| "The state made good fight and
.ost,'' said Robert E. Grove, states at
| torney and leader in the prosecution
THE verdict speaks for itself.
| Attorney Stewart who argued through
out the trial that his client was the vic
tim of plot, said he was sorry the
| jury was not allowed TO voice ltS Ver-
dict against those who plotted against
/ Shepherd" But the verdict is in reali-
ty finding of guilt for the plotters.
| 1t is another proof of the sanctity OF
the jury system.
Shepherds Pastor Pleased
"Justice has triumphed. God is mer-
ciful to the prosecuted" said the Rev,
Carl A. Naumann, pastor of the church
Shepherd attended, and who has stead
fastly asserted his confidence in Shep-
herds innocence. /{t
| Miss Isabelle Pope. fiancee of young
| McClintock, who waited at his death bed
with license to wed him il he re-
covered, said the verdict was what she
expected
! "There was so much left out-so much
detail that was important to the whole
4 story-that I don't see how the jury
| could convict Mr.. Shepherd" she said.
| CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 27.--William ID.
| Shepherd, who was acquitted last night
! by jury of the charge that he murder