Evening star., 1925-06-12
WITNESS RETURNS
IN SHEPHERD CASE
Robert White, Long Missing,
Comes Back to Eight
Thing to Finish"
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 12.-Robert White.
long missing witness in the Shepherd
murder trial, Unexpectedly walked into
the courtroom this morning and re-
ported to Joseph Savage, assistant
States attorney.
Here am. Mr.. Savage" said
White, who Immediately was rushed
to the office of the States attorney. He
was accompanied by his wife and two
children.
II am here to fight this thing to a
finish; there is more to 1t than you
KNOW" Savage said White had stated.
Ulterior purposes imputed to Alex
ander Reichmann, co-guardian with
Mrs. Julie Shepherd Of William N. Nc
Clintock, were brought into the open
today when Reichmann was so bitterly
assailed upon cross-examination by w.
s. Stewart, chief Of defense counsel,
that four times the witness begged
Judge Thomas J. Lynch for 'protec-
ton from these insinuations."
Accuses Reichmann.
Stewart indirectly accused Reich.
mann of having profited from his at
torneyship of the McClintock 81 ,000,.
herd by young McClintock shortly be-
fore he died of typhoid fever Decem.
Der 4, a death Shepherd is accused Of
having caused by administering ty-
phoid germs.
How much did you have when you
came here from Iowa?" asked Stew.
art. and when Robert E. Grove, States
attorney. objected, Stewart told Judge
Lynch that he wanted to show when
this man came here he didn't have a
dime. and he got rich after he began
handling the McClintock estate"
Mr.. Grove insisted Reichmann was
one of the leaders of the Chicago bar
and aff1uence was a legitimate result
Of his ability as an attorney.
The first mention Of the proposed
suit by McClintock's cousins to break
the will was made when Reichmann
admitted he knew such a suit was con.
templated, but denied he had an inter.
est in it..
Reichmann begged the courts pro.
lection when Stewart made a sar-
castle reference to the admitted fact
that McClintock when child had
not liked him, and again when
Stewart sought to prove by the wit
ness" that Reichmann in the noted
King will case had an interested
party sent to Jail In an effort to break
the will.
The argument became SO heated
that Prosecutor Grove angrily de-
manded of Judge Lynch that Stewart
be restrained from the practices Of a
"shyster lawyer"
Concluding his direct examination,
Reichmann testified that as counsel
for Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock
after the death of her husband, whom
he had served in, the capacity, he had
drawn up the will under which the
estate was transferred to the child.
He testified that when Mrs. Nc
Clintock had wanted to name Mrs.
Shepherd as a co-guardian he did
not know who was meant, not being
acquainted with the Shepherds at
that time. ~.
Told Of Will. s
Reichmann stated that Mrs. Shep-
herd had no knowledge of Mrs. Nc
Clintock's will until he informed her
Of 1t short time after the latter's
death.
Reichmann insisted he thought he
should have been compensated for
helping take care of the McClintock
boy.
Mrs. Shepherd got a personal al
lowances of $75 a month and $500,
later increased to 500, a month for
expenses of the McClintock house
hold.
Much Of Reichmann's testimony
dealt with stories Of difficulties with
the Shepherds threshed out in the
probate. court over guardianship of
young McClintock,