Evening star., 1925-06-27
SHEPHERD FREED;
SECOND CHARGE Of
MURDER SHELVED
Grove Says There Is No Evil
dence to Show He Killed
Mrs. McCIintock.
CLEARED IN BOYS DEATH
AT 6-HOUR JURY SESSION
State Undecided in Faiman's Case.
Olson Says He Will Con-
tinue Probe.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, June 27.-William D.
Shepherd, acquitted last night by a
jury OF the charge that he murdered
his millionaire foster son, William \.
McClintock, by using typhoid germs,
today was assured that the second
murder charge, that he killed McClin
took mother. would not be pressed by
states Attorney Robert +. Grove.
There is no evidence that Mrs. Nc
ClintoCk was murdered and will not
press the charge the States attor-
ney said.
A coroner's jury which heard testi
mony in connection with the death OF
Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock, her
son and DR.. Oscar Olsen, after Judge
Harry Olson, chief justice of the mu-
hicipal court. had conducted the ex-
animation Of witnesses, had ordered
Shepherd, and also Mrs. Julie Shep-
herd, the defendants wife, held for
murder in connection with the deaths
Of mother and son. The grand jury
returned a no-bill in Mrs. Shepherd 8
case.
Olson Irks Grove.
Judge Olson, who last night declared
that the States attorney had not given
his best efforts to the prosecution Of
Shepherd, and who said several wit.
nesses not called should have been
used. was almost ignored by Prosecu-
tor Grove in his remarks today, but
he was plainly wrathful over the jur-
lists charges.
The prosecutor declared he would
ask the grand jury to return a no.
bill generating Shepherd in the case
of Mrs. McClintock's death. He was
plainly determined to drop the Shep-
herd matter regardless of Judge Oh
fon's assertion last night that the case
was not over.
The jury's verdict speaks for itself,
and / have no reply, at least at pres
ent, for Olson" said Grove.
Undecided on Faiman.
He added that he had not decided
what action to take with regard to
c. c. Faiman, head of an unrecog-
nized school, who testified that he had
taught Shepherd how to maintain ty-
phoid cultures and administer the
germs SO as to produce death.
Shepherd and his wife were happy
together. They had gone away to-
gether last night to a Chicago apart
arranged and where she had provided
a. dinner for them and their closest
friends. Today they were to return
to their suburban home in kenilworth,
where they had lived with Billy Nc
Clintock until his death December 4.
Debate Nearly Six Hours.
shepherd was found not guilty after
the jury deliberated hours and 40
= minutes.
Within a half hour he was freed
from Jail, where he has been since
March 13. on his personal bond of
$4,000, on the charge of Staying Mrs.
McClintock.
Although members of the jury
would not divulge how they reached
final agreement when they reported
at 1915 o'clock, 1t was said at the
Criminal Courts Building that six bal
lots had been taken. the vote from the
first standing II to l for acquittal.
The jurors said they had taken a
collective oath not to reveal what
went on in the jury room, even to
their own families.
The verdict was regarded by Shep-
herds attorneys as ending all posi-
iblity of further criminal proceedings
against him. 1t gave him the pre-
sumptive ownership of the McClintock
estate, left him in McClintock's will,
pending final action in suit to break
the will started by nine cousins of the
dead youth.
Olson to Continue Probe.
Despite the jury finding, Judge o.
son, instigator of the investigation of
McClintock's death. will continue to
probe and to prosecute, if that is pos
sibe, he said.
burst of cheers, despite warn
ings of bailiffs against any demon
stration, came from the crowded
spectators when the verdict was an
nounced by William Burnett, fore
man. Flashlights doomed as news
photographers stampeded the jury
and a broad smile wrea thed the face
of the accused.
Shepherd and his attorneys, Will
liam Scott Stewart and w. w.
O'Brien, shook hands and thanked
each juryman as they filed from the
box after the six weeks trial. Mrs.
Julie Shepherd, his wife, was not in
the courtroom. 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 Stoll, his
former law partner.
The couple said they were too
pleased to have anything to say.
Comment on the verdict was not
withheld. however, by other princi-
pals in the case.
The State made a good fight and
lost" said Grove.
Attorney Stewart who argued
throughout the trial that his client
was the victim of a plot, said he
was sorry the jury was not allowed
ito voice its verdict against those
who plotted against Shepherd But
the verdict is in reality a finding of
guilt for the plotters. 1t is another
proof of the sanctity Of the jury sys-
tenn
Says Justice Triumphed.
Justice has triumphed. God is
merciful to the prosecuted" said the
Rev. Carl A. Naumann. pastor of the
church Shepherd attended, and who
had steadfastly asserted his confidence
IN Shepherds innocence. II never
prayed for Shepherd acquittal, onlv
hat the right might triumph God s
will be done. If 1 had supposed
Shepherd was guilty l would have
asked permission to stay down there
at the County Jail and wiring the con-
fession from him."
Miss Isabelle Pope, fiancse of young
McClintock, who waited at his death
bed with license to wed him If he
recovered, said the verdict was what
she expected.
There was SO much left out-so
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