Mrs. Frank Hammon
Dies from Injuries
Son Hastens Back
from Germany
LYNCH — Mrs. Frank Ham
mon, 66, died at the Sacred Heait
hospital at Lynch Wednesday,
June 24, at 2 p.m.
Mrs. Hammon and her hus
band were both seriously injured
in a headon auto collision Wed
nesday, June 17, one and one
half miles west of Niobrara.
Mr. Hammon, who is also in
the Lynch hospital, is “improv
ing” but still not out of danger.
All of their surviving seven
sons and five daughters have
been at their parents’ bedside
except Eldon, who was on his
way home from Germany at the
time of his mother’s death.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ham
mon were held at the Lynch
Wesleyan Methodist church Mon
day, June 29, at 2 p.m., with
Rev. Keith Cunningham in
charge.
Survivors include: Widower;
sons — Archie of Nampa, Ida.;
Gilbert of Tillamook, Ore.; Ches
ter of Spencer; Donald of Stan
ton; Phillip of Lynch and Eldon
in Germany with the U.S. forces;
daughters — Mrs. Fred (Vesta)
Moon of Eugene, Ore.; Mrs. Rob
ert (Mildred) Anderson of Bend,
Ore.; Mrs. Floyd (Bessie) Aspiin
of Stanton and Althea and Don
elda at home.
The funeral was delayed until
Monday, June 29, waiting for the
return of Eldon who was enreute
home from Germany.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bill Meyers . . . stolen suitcase burned there.
★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★
‘No Brakeman Would Do That!*
Joseph McLimans had a habit
of sleeping in the caboose of his
train at Bonesteel and always
parked his car near the depot.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Meyers, Bone
steel depot agent and his wiie,
live in an apartment on the sec
ond floor of the depot and the
McLimans vehicle invariably is
parked in easy view of the
Meyers’.
On the night of March 6 the
McLimans car was gone. The
next day the Calkins slaying was
the talk of the town and Mrs.
Meyers jokingly accused McLi
mans, in his presence, of perpe
trating the murder.
Authorities did not check with
Mr. and Mrs. Meyers until last
week when they were checking
his story. He had insisted dur
ing the interrogation that he had
been playing poker that night at
Bonesteel, but the cohtact with
Mr. and Mrs. Meyers substantiat
ed he was away.
He subsequently chopped up
the suitcase and burned it in the
stove in the caboose. He remov
ed the “D.D.” plate and threw l*.
in a toilet. The pistol, which was
believed to have been gotten in
Norfolk, was hidden and author
ities have not divulged where it
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is located.
The “Voice of The Frontier”
special events microphone was
hastened to Bonesteel Friday af
ter a letter was received
from the Meyers, telling details
of their contact with McLimans.
Mrs. Meyers said McLimans
sat in their apartment the morn
ing of the murder and lisfenel
to Cal Stewart telling the p-.ws
to the world that Chief Calkins
had been slain.
McLimans, she said, was un
moved. Finally, when the broad
cast was over, Mrs. Meyers turn
ed on McLimans:
"You're the man they want,
Joe . . . you drive a late model
► green Kaiser and you were
gone way into the night. You
killed Chet Calkins!"
McLimans stared at the floor,
shrugged his shoulders and
walked away, saying: “You’re
crazy. No brakeman would do a
thing like that!”
The next day—Saturday—the
Meyerses saw McLimans drive
up in his Kaiser. Mrs. Meyers
again turned on him, saying:
“Joe, aren’t you afraid coming
across country in that green
Kaiser . . . aren’t you afraid
they’ll pick you up?”
McLimans said no.
Slayer’s Wife Says:
‘I’ll Stick By Him’
Mrs. Pearl McLimans, young
wife of the slayer, told The Fron
tier Friday afternoon at Long
Pine that she would “stick with
her husband.” The slayer’s moth
er-in-law, Mrs. Alice Coen of
Long Pine, who works at a rest
home there, echoed the same
sentiment.
Both women spoke to Cal
Stewart on the “Voice of The
Frontier” special events micro
phone and the contents of the
interview were aired in a spe
cial program Saturday morning.
The McLimans dwelling in
Long Pine is a few hundred feet
west of the depot. An oil tank
car literally sat in the back yard
when The Frontier reporter call
ed, accompanied by Joe Biglin,
“Voice of The Frontier” radio
engineer.
Joe McLimans' adopted son,
Bobby, 5, and his own 16
monihs-old son. Don, were
playing in a sandpit beside the
house. Four neighbor girls had
congregated there and play
went on — the tender minds
completely unaware of the sit
uation.
“Joe wouldn’t harm a dog,” the
mother-in-law said. “I’ve been
riding down the road with him
in the car and he’d slam on the
brakes to avoid hitting a dog or
a chicken. He was not tough.
He’d been doing a lot of drink
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ing. Some of the loot that has
been found wan’t worth any
thing. I don’t understand it.”
The slayer’s wife, who had
been married before, told The
Frontier a bit about Joe’s war
record.
“He wouldn’t talk much about
the war,” she sobbed. “He did
say that on that bombing mis
sion in which his plane was shot
down over Germany one of nis
buddies, who had been wound
ed, died in his arms.
“He said the food In the Ger
man prisoner of war camp con
sisted of rotten potatoes and
-.tale bread.
“I met him in Long Pine four
years ago when Joe began com
ing into Long Pine as a brake
man on the railroad. We were
married in Winner in 1951 ”
Finally, she scooped up her
children and went into the
house and closed the door. She
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 was very
kind to her crippled son, 19, who
had been permanently injured
in a hunting accident 3% years
ago. “He wheeled my Robert
around town in the wheel chair
and took him fishing.”
The slayer’s foster mother,
Joseph Emmett McLimans. 33 ... to prison lor iiie. ]
Mrs. Lillian McLimans of Nor
folk, told a reporter her son
might be a split personality—a
“Dr. Jeckyl 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
iorce.
“I was proud of him when he
was 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 McLimans
had seen his month-old baby.
“He was a funny guy,” said
one of the Long Pine workers—
a night telegraph operator
“When I first came to Long Pine
a couple of years ago, I used to
roundup the crews. Joe would
come in and talk a little. But
during the past year or so he
didn’t have much to say.
“Sometimes I’d see him drag
ging himself home in the early
hours of the morning. Occasion
ally, he’d pace the platform
The telegrapher didn’t offer
The Frontier reporter his name.
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Peter N. Nelson, 89,
Dies in Grand Island
Resides Near Lynch
40 Years
LYNCH—Peter N. Nelson, 89,
who had been in poor health for
several years and had been a pa
tient in a Grand Island hospital
for three weeks, died Saturday
June 27.
Funeral services were to have
been conducted Tuesday at
Grand Island.
The Nelson family resided
west of Lynch for about 40 years
During the past few years, the
late Mr. Nelson and his aged
wife made their home in Grand
Island.
Survivors include: Widow
sons — Frank of Grand Island:
Archie of Chicago. 111., and Andv
of Madison; daughters—Mrs Ed
Johns of Lvnch and Mrs. Alice
Yocum of Chicago.
Mrs. Johns was called to Grand
Island Saturday.
The Cub Scouts of O’Neill and
their leaders were hosts to the
Cub Scouts and leaders of Cham
bers last Thursday evening at
Ford’s park. A picnic supper was
enjoyed by all. Games were play
ed.—By Jim McClellan, reporter.
To California—
T. Joe Biglin accompanied nis
sister, Mrs. George Curtis, and
her three children to Columbus
late Monday from where they
took a train for Novato, Calif.
Mrs. Curtis and children had
been visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. F. J. Biglin, for about
a month. T. Joe Biglin plans to
visit his sister and family and his
brother. Dr. Robert Biglin, and
family of Chico, Calif., before re
turning to Nebraska.
Edward Campbell, jr., returned
to Green Bay, Wise., Saturday
after spending a vacation at the
home of his prents, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Campbell, sr.
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