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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1953)
Slain Police Chief O’Neill’s beloved Police Chief Chet Calkins, 51, veteran peace officer, was slain in the early hours on March 7, 1952, by an assailant whose identity remained unknown for one year, three months and 17 days. Late Wednesday, Joseph Emmett Mc Limans, 33, who has resided at Norfolk and Long Pine, confessed the killing. Slayer’s Wife Says She’ll ‘Stick by Him’ (Continued from page 1) had refused to talk to the re porter except that he promised not to take a picture of the children or ask anything on the microphone that "might hurt Joe/' Mrs. Coen said Joe w as very kind to her crippled son, 19, w’h-'i had been permanently injured in a hunting accident years ago. “He wheeled my Robert around town in the wheel chair and took him fishing.” The slayer’s foster mother Mrs. Lillian MeLimans of Nor folk, told a reporter her son might be a split personality—e “Dr. Jeekyl and Mr. Hyde.” Earlier she had insisted that Joe wasn’t the same boy she had raised and sent off to the wars when he enlisted in the air i oree. “I was proud of him when lie W'ss in uniform.” There has been no apparent deep affection between the slay er’s foster mother and the wife and mother-in-law, although the three women sat together in the courtroom. Joe’s own children have silken white hair. The slayer had been taken to Ainsworth and Long Pine Thursday afternoon in rounding up some of- the loot. At his home, he held his stepson in his arms for an hour or more. A toy terrier dog romped and frolick ed when he saw his master—the first time in four months. It was the first time MeLimans had seen his month-old baby. District Judge D. R. Mounts ... "I sentence you to life im prisonment at hard labor." Frontier for printing! Killer of Calkins an Adopted Boy Joseph Emmett McLimans was bom in a Hot Springs, S.D., hospital and when only 24 hours-old was taken from the hospital by his foster mother, Mrs. Lillian McLimans, 713 South Third street, Norfolk. Mrs. McLimans and her husband, the late W. S. McLimans, were resid ing then in Hot Springs, where Mr. McLimans was a merchant. “That boy upstairs in the cell is not the boy I raised,” explain ed Mrs. McLimans tearfully as she descended the courthouse steps after the confession had been heard. “My boy was a fine boy and I tried to raise him right. After Mr. McLimans died ‘it was hard.’ “Joe enlisted in the air force when the war broke out,” she said, “and I was very proud of him in the service.” She reached into her purse and produced two photographs— one of her son smiling and in the air force “summer” issue uniform. “He was a gunner on a Fly ing Fortress. Joseph was sta tioned in England only a month when he became missing in ac tion. He was in a German prison camp for 15 months and the pris oner of war conditions were ter rible,” she said. “I had letters from his com manding officer and I was proud because he was decorated.” The silver-haired mother, who works in a dress shop in Norfolk, retained her composure admir ably. She contained herself very well and thanked the Holt coun ty authorities for “being so nice and considerate about every thing.” It wasn’t until the foster moth er reached O’Neill, with an at torney, that McLimans talked. He confessed first to his mother and Dave Jewell, Norfolk law yer. His foster mother urged him to bare all to the authorities. After the confession he asked if he could see a priest. Mrs. McLimans, wearing a gray flecked rayon dress, a dai-k hat and a white carnation at the neck, wearily got into a car and returned to Norfolk. * • * Officers Search Long Pine Residence— Authorities this spring went to Long Pine and searched the Jo seph McLimans residence. Evi dence was found of loots from a number of north Nebraska points. The slayer’s wife and two This is a portion of the overflow crowd in the second floor courthouse lobby. Those with seats in the courtroom congregated early. children reside there. The 4 year-old child belongs to Mrs. McLimans while their baby was born only two weeks before the Calkins killing. The home in Long Pine is on the nondescript side. His wife visited him Wednes day afternoon and evening in the cell. “We did lots of bargaining to get the confession,” Sheriff Leo Tomjack said. The turning point in the in vestigation, County Attorney William Griffin says, came late Tuesday night. MrS. Mary Fleming of O’Neill and Richard Spittler of Ewing, two of the witnesses who last saw Chet Calkins alive while he was investigating the trunk of a “late model blue or green Kai ser” on Everett street. Griffin said McLimans thought Fleming and Spittler recognized him, and from that point on “we realized we were getting some where.” * * * Known in Norfolk— The Calkins murderer was not generally known in Long Pine or Bonesteel, although fellow C&NW workers up-and-down the mainlines of the North Western between Norfolk and Long Pine and between Norfolk and Winner were aware of him. • Mrs. Chet Calkins, the chiefs widow, is grateful the “whole thing is over.” In behalf of herself and her family she wanted to thank all the peace officers who assisted in cracking the case. When the trial was over, she said folks general ly have been “very kind, helpiui and considerate during these months.” Her oldest son, Harold, whvi sat near his mother in the court room, personally congratulated the investigators and asked The Frontier to include his “thanks.” Mounts pointed this out before passing sentence on Joseph Em mett McLimans in a crov/ded courtroom. __ The nondescript McLimans dwelling ... the toy terrier romped. .. 8 8111 tg»^tTTrrrrrrrr?rrr rrrT?rrrrrrr^?rrrrrr?rr??*y Mr. and Mrs. Bill Meyers . . . stolen suitcase burned there. I By Popular Demand k | Again This Week | ! FRYERS one | Each_O # H 1 Yl I Va Lb. Avg. Please Place Your Order Early! I 1 I I PICNIC HADIS a*. ■ Per Lb- v- , * ] __ II m BEEF 11 LIVEN KS“lI. ... 49c ! u m — l J& ~E ii U Skinless — Boneless — Cooked U ARMOUR’S STAR 1 (I PICNICS.5-ik fin $3.891 {I PICKLE and PIMENTO LOAF I (! 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