| Show SHEPHERD FIGHTS TO HOlD i MILliONS L COMES TO BLOWS WITH FORMER CHAFFEUR IN CORRIDOR OF COURT HOUSE I Many Witnesses Will Take Part Part In I Legal Battle Dattle Over McClintock Estate Warm Fight la Is Looked For Chicago William Chicago William Darling Shepherd has baa began hogan his legal battle to retain the million dollar estate left to him by ly his youthful ward William Nehon Nelson McClintock of who whose tI murder he was recently acquitted Shepherd and his wife appeared In inn probate court where his attorneys are attempting to probate McClin locks lock's will over the tIne objection of ot attorneys at attorneys representing McClintock and anil also Miss Isabelle Isabella Pope his fiancee Miss Pope under the will re receives elves an annuity The TIne court proceedings were wore were woreen enlivened enlivened en livened by a fist fight between Shepherd Shep herd and Louis lUcas Kless Shepherds Shepherd's Cor former mer chauffeur who met Shepherd In a corridor and demanded settlement settle settlement ment ment of f a 55 tiG bill Kless was arrested arrested ar ar- ar rested and the probate Judge Indicated Indi he would be held beld for contempt Mr and Mrs Shepherd were served d with a subpoena requiring them to produce the memorandum In McClin tocks tock's own handwriting handwritings which Shepherd Shep Shepherd herd used at ata a basis basle in fn drawing up the will Witnesses Included two maids In Inthe Inthe inthe the Shepherd homo home who signed the will Each said she did not read It and one admitted she could not read F English Attorneys for the cousins by their questions Indicated they expected expected ex to show that the will may have been tampered with by the Introduction introduction In in- of an extra page after It had been signed Shepherd may not be called on to testify tE Ills His attorneys entered objections When attorneys for c cousins tried to I eho undue influence influence ence had been used In inducing McClintock Mc Me ClIntock to sign Attorneys for Shepherd cited opinions as late as last Friday to show that undue Influence influence In fluence has no bearing on the validity of of ofa a will If the court upholds this argument attorneys for for Shepherd maintain the testimony of those who signed the will Is s sufficient t to prove its validity exam Cross Cross examination atlon of Shepherds Shepherd's first witness Marie Gartner dI die closed the pur purpose of the contesting cousins to show that one one page of ef the document might have bave been Inserted subsequent to the signing and wit wit wit- n Orville Orvllle Taylor aylor counsel for forthe forthe forthe the cousins called callett attention to alleged al differences in tIne h bin handwriting iad ng of the testators testator's signature on the first and last pages |
