Show MRS SHEPARD DRANK I SAYS CASE GASE DEFENSE I II S I TOPEKA Kan Feb 6 IP i 1 testimony piled up that Mrs Zenana Zenan I Shepard was wao a drunkard the defense of Major Charles A. A Shepard accused I of or her murder today approached the tto end of its case in federal court here Major Shepard 63 once r convicted I Ir of fatally poisoning his wife in order r that h he might marry Miss Grace Graci Brandon blonde San Antonio stenographer Is being tried a second time the first conviction having been se seaside set t aside by the supreme court of or th the United States One after aler another def defense nse witnesses wit wit- ne nesses e who knew Mrs Shepard in inthe inthe ii i the Philippines in Omaha and at Ft Ft 1 Rile Riley Kan where she died June 15 11 i 1929 testified that she was a secre secret t drinker The Shepard defense claims claim 5 that Mrs Shepard was subject to depressions depressions de de- during her drinking drinkin spells spell S and that she probably poisoned herself herscH |