MURDER BY POISON
• •; TO SECURE VICTIMS’ WEALTH; MAN AND WIFE ACCUSED (“Sydney Sun” Service.) 1 •/. , NEW YOkk, May.. 8./ ‘ A Coroner’s jury in Chicago fouhd Mrs. Shepherd, wife of William. Shepherd, was her husband'A. ’accomplice ih the murder of William McClintock .whose qiillion dollars the' Shepherds inherited, . ..// '■ '//, ' / Evidence disclosed tfifat tii'e' plot to obtain the fortune was...hatched..six-: teen years ago, when William' She Drherd administered mercury to Me? Clintock’s mother, causing I’ier death. The son inherited the fortune, Then in order to obtain this, Shepherd;" last December,. gave the, .boy typhoid germs. - 1 ./ '. ■;/,. ./ The Jury found : that accused; hid guilty knowledge of ppth the crinles?
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1925, Page 5
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