Evening star., 1925-06-17
FATE Of SHEPHERD
HINGES ON FA|MAN
State Will Close Case Today
After Testimony of Uni
versity Head.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. June i7.-Today will see
the end of the States case against
William Darling Shepherd. said
Joseph P. Savage. assistant State s
attorney, shortly before court opened
this afternoon.
AT this time I think I can safely
say that the State has proven that
Shepherd had a motive for Staying
William y. McClintock, his million
aire foster son, and today we will try
to establish that he actually did, "
said Savage.
"Faiman will be our last witness,
very probably late today. and If the
jury believes him, we will obtain Shep-
herds conviction. If the jury does not.
then that is another story"
Charles c. Faiman, proprietor of
the Small National University of
Sciences, Chicago, was indicted with
a promise of 100000 he taught Shep-
herd how to kill the rich youth, and
supplied live typhoid germs for the
deed.
Nurse Is Witness.
Court opened with Miss Marie Hall,
a nurse, who attended young McClin-
took in his last illness, the first wit
ness.
Miss Hall testified that upon her ar
rival at the Shepherd d-McClintock home
week after McClintock became i'll,
the youth was delirious. She testified
also Shepherd had told her that
Billy had said prior to a Doctors
diagnosis that he had typhoid fever
and that Shepherd told her he had
given the youth a cathartic.
Jvpnn ninatiOn the nurse
said she had acted upon specific in
structions of the doctors. She said she
observed nothing unusual at the Shep-
herd home and that Shepherd appear
ed as would the father of an i'll son.
Shepherd expressed anxiety over the
boys condition. she testified.
Doctor Barred Girl.
Miss Hall testified also that Miss
Isabelle Pope, fiance of Billy" who
testified yesterday and Monday, was
excluded from the sick room in the
| final stages of the youths illness upon
orders of the doctors. The nurse ad.
mitted that in the prescribed treat.
ment of the youth, she administered
hypodermic injections, thereby ac
counting for three punctures in young
| McClintock' arm noted in the post
mortem examination.
Ii. Macarthur, assistant secretary
of the Northern Trust Co., testified
that Shepherd visited him during
, Billy's illness and sought an advance
of money The expenses of Billy's S
illness had caused his personal
finances to run low, Macarthur said.
He told Shepherd, Macarthur said,
that he could not advance money.
but If the bills were sent in they
would be paid by the Northern Trust
| which was in custody of the $1,000
| 900 McClintock estate.
Macarthur also testified that Shep-
herd had told him Billy said at the
| inception of his illness that he
feared it was typhoid. Macarthur
said he remarked on that comment
as strange.
White to Testify.
| Preceding the appearance on the
witness stand of the man upon whose
| credibility the State has admitted its
structure of circumstantial evidence
against Shepherd will stand or fall
will be DR. Robert White, who dis
| appeared in a rented automobile just
| before the trial started and toured
the East, writing letters from vari-
Gus places, only to appear dramat-
/ ically a few days ago with court
room announcement that he was
back to fight Shepherd to a finish.
White was known as the body
guard of Faiman. and the State ex-
| poets him to testify he saw Shepherd
at Faiman's school.