ALLEGATION OF MURDER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 9

ALLEGATION OF MURDER

ORPHAN LEGATEE'S DEATH. . TYPHOID GERMS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, May 7. A coroner’s jury in Chicago found that Mrs Shepherd, wife of William Shepherd, was her husband’s accomplice in the murder of William M'Clintock, whose fortune of 1,000,000 dollars the Shepherds inherited. • The evidence disclosed that the plot to obtain the fortune was hatched 16 years ago, when William Shepherd administered mercury to M‘Cl in lock’s mother, causing her death. Her son inherited her fortune, and then in order to obtain this Shepherd, last December, gave the boy typhoid germs. The jury found that the .accused had a fuilty Knowledge of both crimes.—Sydney un Cable. <

A New York cable dated March 18 last stated; Chicago City . has again been shocked by alleged murder revelations, which threaten to arouse as great a horror as the former Leopold and Loeb case. William Shepherd and Charles Faiman have been arrested and charged with murder by inoculation with typhoid germs in connection with the death last December of William M'Clintock, an orphan millionaire, aged 21. Shepherd was tlje fosterfather and chief heir of M’Clintock. Faiman, who is a bacteriologist, confessed that he conspired with Shepherd to introduce typhoid germs into the deceased, as the victim had made a will leaving his fortune to Shepherd. Faiman’s confession gives full details of how he instructed Shepherd in bacteriology, and the use of germs, etc. This knowledge Shepherd -urcessfully applied, and M’Clintock died of typhoid. Faiman /says he was promised 100,000 dollars. The revelations axe the result of tile persistency of Judge Olson, whose brother also died suddenly after warning M'Clintock against Shepherd. The authorities bad stopped previous investigations into the cause of M’Clintock’s death, and apologised to Shepherd.