The Key West citizen., 1954-11-20

for . look. at the statement.
Il Later. the prosecution said II had
no idea what DR.. Sheppard mean
about the potential lovers" But
= insisted all three persons men.
toned by the defendant had beer
cleared"
| They refused to say whether ths
persons had taken lie detecto,
tests.
| The statement also revealed tha,
police questioned DR.. Sheppard
about his relationship with Miss
Susan Hayes and Mrs. juice Loss.
man.
| Miss Hayes, q 24-year-old hos.
pital technician, admitted she was
intimate with DR.. Sheppard when
ne made . trip 30 California Last
March.
/ A short time after the Sheppard
murder, Mrs. Lossman, wife oi
the owner of q motor sales COM
pany, also admitted to police that
she had gone on ''hugging and
kissing" dates with the handsome
defendant.
DR.. Sheppard, in the police state
ment, denied he ever had an af.
fair with Miss Hayes but declared
they were good friends and he
bought her = watch while on the
West Coast.
He said he told his wife about
the watch later and she became
somewhat upset, falling to under
stand the intent Che said 1t was
to replace one she had lost)."
| DR.. Sheppard said he met Mrs.
Lossman while rendering medical
care after an automobile accident
and later bought a Jaguar sports
car from her husband, Robert.
A close friendship with both hus-
band and wife developed, DR..
Sheppard said in the statement,
but Il didn't turn into 4 love af-
fair between himself and Mrs.
Lossman, mot on my part certain
| W."
| Q. Do you know whether or MOI
there had been q discussion be.
tween Mrs. Lossman and her hus-
band and you and your wife, Mari.
lyn, that there had been such an
affair existing between you and
Mrs. L0ssman?
/ A. That is difficult to answer. NV
wife and I were present at q time
when Mr.. Lossman and his wife
discussed some OF their marital
problems. He at this time did men
ton the belief that she had shown
shown particular liking TO me,
We merely attempted to act as !
referee, my wife and I.
| g. How did this affect your wife?
| A. She said that after that il
would be best that we not arrange
frequent social affairs with the
Lossmans and ! agreed.
! DR.. Sheppard denied "absolute.
ly'' he had ever dated Mrs. Loss.
man, but acknowledged there had
been some rumor to that effect. !"
Meanwhile, two Cleveland detec-
tives, saying they were in Detroit
at the request Of DR.. Stephen Shep.
pard, the accused osteopath's S
brother, have interviewed three
persons at that city's homicide bu-
|reau.
They said they planned to take
back to Cleveland certain objects
found In an undisclosed place
in Michigan. These included a
stained Tshirt, three small, fire.
Scared bottles and a heavy car
penter's file.
Clevelandss detective chief.
James E. Macarthur, had said
earlier that DR.. Stephen Sheppard
named q 3S-year-old "bushy haired
man in connection with the case.
He was described as heavy man,
six feet three, addicted to a drug.
demerol, and repeatedly was a
former patient Of the Sheppards.
Some surgical instrument COM
panies in Detroit were 30 be
checked by the Cleveland detec-
tives, Macarthur also said.
County Coroner Samuel r. Ger
Der, testifying at the trial, said an
outline in the bloodstained pillow
OF Marilyn Sheppard showed the
murder weapon--never recovered
might have been 4 surgical in
strument.
Macarthur also said pair of sur
gical scissors found at Traverse
City, Mich, was apparently unre-
lated to the murder case. It had
been turned over to local police
as a possible clew.
While attorneys and detectives
continued to busy themselves with
the case, an elderly woman lay in
the Sheppard's Bay View Hospital,
victim of a stroke.
She is Mrs. Richard A. Shep-
pard, mother of the accused osteo-
path. She was stricken Wednesday.
Officials reported her in fair con-
dition.
Defense attorneys said the osteo-
path has not been informed of the
stroke. His mother, a chronic car
diac sufferer, has not been present
during her sons murder trial.