Doctor Nabbed
For Killing Wife;
Claims Innocence
CLEVELAND, W)—Dr. Samuel
Sheppart, charged with beating
his pregnant wife to death, sat in
a four by eight cell Saturday as
detectives prepared to question
him.
Arrested on a first degree mur
der charge Friday night at the
suburban Bay Village home of his
father, the handsome 30-year-old
osteopath pleaded innocent and a
preliminary hearing was set for
next Saturday. After that he was
brought to the Cuyahoga County
jail in Cleveland and put in soli
tary confinement, wearing a pair
of blue denim prison pants and a
white T shirt.
Mrs. Marilyn Sheppard, a come
ly golf-playing mother, was killed
by 27 blows on her head early
July 4.
Since then Miss Susan Hayes, a
sun tanned 24-year-old hospital
technician, has been quoted as
admitting intimacies with the hus
band. Prosecutor Frank T. Culli
tan, who quoted her after reading
her signed statement, added she
had told of receiving gifts from
him, including a suede jacket, a
signet ring and a watch.
At an inquest, the doctor had
denied being intimate with her.
Richard Weygandt, attorney for
Bay Village, declared he had rec
ommended the warrant because
“evidence which I have reviewed
is of such weight that in my opin
ion there is probable cause to be
lieve Dr. Sam Sheppart guilty of
the murder of his wife and I
believe that his arrest should be
made.”
Still hunted is a weapon. Mrs.
Sheppard, four months pregnant,
was struck 27 cutting blows on the
head. Police speculated she might
have been hit with a No. 9 iron
which is missing from her golf
bag. But efforts, which included
divers in Lake Erie back of the
Sheppard home, have failed to
turn it up.
Dr. Sheppart testified at a cor
oner’s inquest he was awakened
from a downstairs couch early the
morning of the killing by, a call
for help. He said he ran upstairs,
saw a “white form” and was
knocked out. After coming to, he
continued, he went downstairs,
grappled with a man on the nar
row beach and was knocked out
again.
Since that day he has worn a
neck brace off and on, complain
ing of injuries suffered in the
fights. Jailers took the brace away.
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Army Officer Hanged
For Murdering Wife
FT. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., UP
—An Army warrant officer was
hanged early Saturday for mur
dering his wife two years ago in
Germany.
Bernard J. Obrien, 33, of San
Antonio, was executed at the
nearby Kansas State Prison.
O’Brien was accused of killing
his wife, Dorothy, with a mattock
after marital difficulties. Testi
mony disclosed O’Brien then put
his wife’s body in their car and
caused the car to ram a tree near
Munich to make it appear that
she was killed in an accident.
Two Girls of Quads
In Fairly Good Condition
PITTSBURGH, UP—Spokesman
for Magee Hospital said Saturday
two girls of quadruplets bom to
Mrs. Ruth Hurd, 25, are in “fairly
good condition.”
The babies, a boy and three
girls, were born Friday but two
died by nightfall. The mother is
doing well, the hospital added.
Rudolph, 28, the father, and
Ruth are parents of an 18-month
old boy, Ellsworth.
“I guess I better find a better
job. You can’t raise a big family
making 40 to 50 dollars a week.
The Hurds are Negroes.
New Hunting Regulation
Requiring Postcard Report
Starts This Fall, FWS Says
JUNEAU, UP—Fish and Wildlife
Service officials said Friday a
new regulation in the 1954 game
| laws appears to be confusing to
some nimrods.
The new regulation requiring
all hunters to send in postcard
reports on big game killed doesn’t
go into effect until the 1954 hunt
ing season this fall, the FWS said.
Reports should cover animals
killed during the 1954 season.
The FWS office here said it has
received a number of reports
showing the 1953-54 kill.
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Tax Chief Decries
Tax Dodging as
‘Greedy, Immoral’
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Inter
nal Revinue Service, says Com
missioner T. Coleman Andrews,
doesn’t want to be unfair. But it
views with decided disdain such
income-tax dodges as:
Charging $48,000 for “call girls”
as a business expense.
Claiming deductions for lin
gerie, perfume and Cadillacs for
lady friends.
Listing the cost of a private
swimming pool as a “water puri
fication experiment.”
Andrews told a House Ways
and Means subcommittee Friday
of these actual attempts to avoid
taxes.
“It seems the greedy get greed
ier, and the more you get the
more you want to keep,” Andrews
said. He reported his agency is
cracking down hard on devious
methods by which some have
tried to reduce their tax bills.
One businessman claimed the
cost of his groceries as a legiti
mate deduction. His theory, An
drews said, was that “when his
wife was in the grocery store, she
might contact prospective custom
ers.”
Such expenses as sea and air
cruises often are carried too far,
Andrews reported. And, he cau
tioned, “it doesn’t pay to claim
dependents you’re not entitled to.”
The government “leans over
backward” in considering small
taxpayers, he explained. But when
they’re “downright immoral,” he
said, “that’s different.”
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