CLEVELAND — A box of Marilyn Sheppard's embroidered handkerchiefs has been removed from an auction of Sheppard family items after complaints from her son.

        “I'm greatly relieved and gratified,” Sam Reese Sheppard said.

Marilyn Sheppard

        “Personal items are not for sale. It was just an inadvertent mistake.”

        A small collection that belonged to Dr. Sam and Marilyn Sheppard were to be included among thousands of family heirlooms.

        The sale today is from the estate of Dorothy Sheppard, wife of Sam's late brother Richard. She died in January.

        Dorothy Sheppard's daughters have agreed to give the handkerchiefs to their cousin, Sam Reese Sheppard.

        He hopes to include them in an archival exhibit he wants to establish in April to honor his parents.

        Mr. Sheppard said he didn't mind that other items that belonged to his parents, including medical texts and children's story books, would remain on the auction block.

        Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned in her bed early on July 4, 1954, at the family's suburban Bay Village home on Lake Erie.

        Sam Sheppard was convicted of the slaying and served a decade in prison. The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned the conviction, and he was acquitted at a second trial in 1966. He died in 1970.

        Last year, a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court jury rejected a claim filed on behalf of Mr. Sheppard's estate that sought to declare him innocent in his wife's death.

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