Evening star., 1925-04-05
POISON IS FOUND
IN BODIES OF TWO
IN SHEPHERD CASE
Chemists Report Is Made
Public by Chicago
Newspaper.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, April 4.-The Herald
and Examiner tonight printed a story
saying that Coroners Chemist Will
liam D. McNally had reported to Chief
Justice Harry Olson that he had
found poison in the bodies of Mrs
Emma Nelson McClintock, mother Of
William McClintock and DR.. Osay
Olson, brother of the jurist. william
D. Shepherd is under indictment on a
charge of killing young McClintoek
with typhoid fever germs to obtain
his fortune.
The poison, said to have been found
in the bodies of McClintock's mother
and of DR.. Olson. is supposed to be
mercury, the story says. The bodies
were exhumed recently at the sugges-
ton of Judge Olson. who had asserted
he feared that they might have died
unnatural deaths.
The story continues:
Although every effort was made to
keep the poison report secret, the
Herald and Examiner learned of it to-
night from an unimpeachable source
Chemists Report Rushed.
IT. hC1Ndly tOlQ Judge OlSOn, VINO
has led the McClintock case investiga-
ton, early today and a day of feverish
activity followed
Lieut.. Blaul and a squad of detec-
tives began an investigation in drug
stores where prescriptions for Mrs. Nc
Clintock and DR.. Olson had been filled
The purpose of this was to ascertain
whether any of the prescriptions ordered
by attending physicians had contained
mercury in sufficient quantities to leave
traces after the lapse of years since the
deaths of the two. Whether traces of
any other poisons had been found could
not be learned tonight"
Lieut.. Blaul and his assistants in ex-
amining the files of drug stores OBJ
tanned four prescriptions for digitalis.
a heart stimulant. These were issued
by DR.. Charles Kruesmarck, family
physician, for the McClintock family,
who reported in June, 1909, that Mrs
McClintock had died at her home of
chronic rheumatic endocarditis and
myrocarditis, affections of the heart
Her death had been hastened by rheu-
mastism and the shock of her husbands s
death in an automobile accident two
years previously.
Doctor Is Questioned.
The detectives also talked to DR.. X
l.. Thorsgaard, who had attended DR..
Olson. He said he had written no pre-
scriptions, as his treatment had con-
sisted of moral advice, supplementing
the treatment DR.. Olson gave himself.
He said, however, that he had given
one prescription over the telephone and
that 1t was filled at south side drug
store. This pharmacy reported, how
ever, that it kept no record of telephone
prescriptions.
Judge Olson tonight said that the pre-
scriptions for Mrs. McClintock, OBJ
tanned by the detectives, had been
handed to him and that he had mailed
them to Coroner Wolff. He declined to
say whether they contained anything of
Importance.
Shepherd, who is now fighting for
bail on charge of numbering Mrs. Nc
Clintock's son, was in Texas at the
time Of Mrs. McClintock's death. DR..
kruesmarck said that Mrs. McClintock
had asked him to be foster father to
Billy, but that he had been unable to
accept the charge. The doctor had
suggested that Mrs. Shepherd, a friend
OF Mrs. McClintock, should adopt the
boy and Mrs. Shepherd was hurriedly
summoned, arriving a few hours before
death. The adoption arrangements then
were hurriedly made just before Mrs.
McClintock died.