Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-23
SHEPHERD TO TAKE
STAND TODAY IN
HIS own DEFENSE

Chicago, June 22-(AP)-William
D. Shepherd will have his day IN
court tomorrow. He will take the
witness stand and deny that he used
typhoid germs to slay his million
aire fosterson, William Nelson Nc
Clintock or that he ever dealt with
his chief accuser, Charles c. Faiman.
Such was the positive statement
tonight of his counsel, william s..
Stewart and w. w. OBrien.
This is no ordinary murder case,'
said Stewart IF it was we never
would consider putting our client on
the witness stand.
He is respectable lawyer, who
has made statements to the men now
prosecuting him and has nothing to
fear. We maintain he Is being per-
secuted as a step in the will fight,
and he is anxious to take the witness
stand and convince the jury of his
innocence"
Cross examination Of Shepherd will
not be limited, and Robert E. Grove,
states attorney. has expressed the
intention to interrogate the defend
ant on every phase Of his life since
his cradle days. -
In his opening statement the pro-
secutor termed Shepherd consti-
tutionally lazy man, and connecting
Mrs. Shepherd, called them pan
handlers" who had lived for 16
years off the rich youth Shepherd is
accused of having slain.
Before climaxing it's case offering
Shepherds testimony, the defense
VIII offer two or three witnesses to-
morrow morning. Stewart would not
give their names, nor say what tes-
t1mony they would give.
Seven witnesses, four of them
medlcal men were heard today. In
examining the transcript of Fai-
mans testimony Stewart found that
Faiman had said he gave Shepherd
three test tubes filled with bacilli,
one with para typhoid A and one of
para-typhoid B. In examining DIR.
Charles E. M. Fischer, head of the
FISCHER Laboratories, the defense
counsel made much of Faiman's
omission of the name of the contents
of the third tube.
Billy McClintock's death certifi-
cate, the authenticity has not been
disputed, indicated he died of ty-
phoid fever.
DIR. Fischer described the differ
ence between typhoid and para ty-
phoid, explaining para typhoid is the
milder, and seldom results fatally.
Faiman, head of the small Ma
tional University of Science testified
he gave Shepherd the bacilIi and
taught him how to use them to kill
young McClintock. He said Shep-
herd promised him 100000 from
the youths estate, which had been
willed to Shepherd shortly after the
boy reached p years of age.
Part of the testimony of two wit
neSseS was used to combat Faiman's
statement that the germs he says he
gave Shepherd were obtained from
the city health department labora-
tory by merely walking in, telling
the boy at the information desk that
he wanted the bacilli, obtaining
them Immediately and walking out.
DR.. Herman Bundesin, city health
commissioner, and DR.. James L.
White, assistant director of the la
boratory, testified that only by vio-
lation of stringent rules could Fai-
man have obtained the dangerous
bacilli in that manner.
DIR. Bundesin, however, identified
as the boy at the information desk
Winfield Scott Hoerger, formerly in
structor in bacteriology at Faiman's
school and said also that a young
woman counter clerk was given an
other position because she permitted
too much of her time to Faiman, at
that time unknown to the health
commission.
DR.. Bundesfn testified that an in
vestigation made after Faimans con-
fession was published in the news
papers failed to reveal that the germs
alleged to have been used by Shep-
herd had been obtained by Faiman
from the health department. During
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