Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-18
SHEPHERD NAMED
AFTER WEEKS OF
INVESTIGATION
President of University
COnfesses He Was
Implicated

CHICAGO. Mar. l8.-Formal in,
dictmcnt9 charging William d,
Shepherd with numbering Billy Me,
Clintock, his millionaire orphan
ward, were returned by the county
grand jury today before Judge Ja,
cob Hopkins in criminal court. The
indictments also named DR.. Charles
G. Faiman, president of the univer'
sity of sciences, as an accessory.
Shepherd and DR.. Faiman will
not be arraigned until . p. nj. when
a motion for their release on
writ of habeas corpus viii be dis
posed of. The accused now are held
incommunicade in loop hotel.
State 5 Attorney Robert L. Crowe
said that in vicw of the indict'
ments the motion would be over
ruled, He plans to fight releasing
tho men on bail. --
There are 30 counts in the indict.
ments Shepherd and DIR. Faiman
are charged with innoculating Nc,
Clintock with typhoid germs and
with poisonS.
Dr. Charles G. Faiman, president
Of the national university OF sci.
cnceS, whose amazing confession
that ho was an accessory to The al
legged murder plot by giving three
tubes of germs to Shepherd, also
was indicted by the grand jury. Fai,
man may be given a separate trial
or may be co-defendant in the same
trial with shepherd.
Almost simultaneously with the
voting of indictments against Shep.
herd and Faiman. Grove found
now witness. corroborating Fai,
man 5 confession, which is vigor.
ouslv denied by Shepherd.
This witness. Robert White, said
he was a student at Faiman 5 school
-an institution which promises 10
make doctors of its students-anG
saw Shepherd at the school.
~ SAW him in October, 1928"
Whitq told Grove after picking
Shepherd out OF 4 group of men.
90 He inquired about our equipment
and asked 80 see our president.
Another link to the chain which
Grove believes will send shepherd
to the gallows or a life in prison,
was BROUGHT in by Sanford Olson.
SON of Chief Justice Harry Olson
of the municipal court. Young Oh
SON found 4 letter written on
Fniman 5 stationery to q large firm
Of architects. asking about nlans
for propoScd pcw school building.
Notes writtrn on the margin of the
letter by the architect shovel that
Faiman planned to spend $l50.000
in erecting Il school and hospital.
Faiman confessed he was TO receive
100000 from shepherd for his
par in the nlot.
Flankcd by his two ATTORNEYS,
William Scot. Stewart and W.
O.Bricn, Shepherd received the news
of the indictment with aunarcnt
calm. His face twitched a bit and
he admitted n dislike for a Jail
cell, but he was quick to deny the
formal charges against him.
Mrs. Shepherd, a large woman
who hos retained considerable beau
" well into middle age, took the
news bitterly.
"Thev are prosecuting my hus-
band. she said with emphasis.
"This is a terribl1 and malicious
conspiracy. They are Jealous be
cause Billy left his money to us.
Faiman was in better frame
of mind. He seemed pleased that
he had confessed He rubbed his
polished finocrnails along the fresh
crease in his trousers and flicked
nonchalantly at his moustache and
sidehurns. The only thing that
worried him, he admitted, was the
fact his school had been called ga
mill of quackS.
There was No trace of feeling for
the 2l wear ola bov who lied just
as he became of legal age to in
hcrit aud use his vast estate. There
was no feeling of remorse for his
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