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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1959)
Fourteen Pages nre WF.ATHKK i The unseasonable warm weather will continue through today and into tomorrow with chances of ' cooker weather over the weekend. |n This Issue i High today is expected to reach _ . ... 45 degrees. "The Voice of the Beef Empire" Volume 79—Number 34 O'Neill, Holt County, Nebraska, Thursday, December 17, 1959 Seven Cents utte once-and-Bit Case to Jury Tod ay? 0 STATE HIST SOC _ LlIICOtN. h£3R. _____ IBB: ' "9BBM |JLJ| ff\ . / V Monsignor Timothy O’Sullivan in the robes of his office. The parish reception scheduled for the Monsignor to be held Sunday is post|H>ucd indefinitely. Monsignor O'Sullivan is in St. Joseph's hos pital for further back treatment. Turkey Winners Given At least fifty-five free turkeys will be on holiday tables as a re sult of the Turkey Day contest sponsored last week by the O'Neill Chamlier of Commerce and O'Neill merchants, The winners have lieen announc ed and will l>o informed by post cards when and where they can pick up their turkey. The winners of the turkeys are as follows: A & M Shoe Store, Mrs. Dan Snyder, Atkinson; Apparel Shop, Carolyn Sehmeichel, O'Neill, Baz elman's, John N Schmit, O'Neill; Behrens Produce, James Van Every, O'Neill; Higlin's, Dona Brady, lynch; Central Finance, Mrs. Carl Climiel, O'Neill; Coast To-Coast, Mrs, C F. Meyer, Roy al; Coyne Hardware, Mrs. D'o Hines, O'Neill; Devoy Drug, Carl Anderson, O’Neill; Dick's Bar, Leonard Young. O’Neill: Earley Oil Co., Red Dewitt, O’Neill; Ely’s Conoco, Mrs. C. D. Beilin, O'Neill; Fourth St. Market, Pat Conard, O'Neill: Fourth Street Garage, Rob Dnv ery, O'Neill; Fetrow’s, Bill Shaw, O'Neill; First National Bank, Moth er M. Agnesine, St. Mary’s Acad emv, O’Neill; Fred's Green Arrow. Clyde Bowden, O'Neill; Gambles Store, Diurence Smalley, Bristow; j Gillette’s Dairy. Mrs. Lydia Grothe, Emmet; Harry R. Smith, Harold Summers, Page; Hamik Standard Service, Linus Judge, At kinson: Holt Co. Independent, Rev. Robert Duffy. O'Neill: Johnson Drug. Mrs. Merlin Anderson. O’ Neill; Johnson Jewelry, R. W. Rurtwistle, Ewing; J. C. Penney Co., Mrs. Grant Relief. Naper; J. M. McDonald Co., Doris Held, Chambers; Kansas-Nebraska Gas Co., Mrs. Everett Staub. O'Neill; E & R Cafe, Joe Pfeiffer, Spencer; I-oe Store, Mary Ann Kopejtka, Inman: Lohaus Motor, John Zahradnicek, Atkinson: M & M Bakery, Viola Parks. Page; McIntosh Jewelry, Mrs T. P. Gallagher. O'Neill; Mc Car ille's, Mrs. Ralph Hoffman, Ewi a Mareellus Implement, Guy I,. Johnson, O'Neill: Meyer’s Mid west F -niture. Mrs. Walter Pease. Emit at: Moore Noble Lumber Co Wyn Baldwin, Inman: New Outlaw Grocery. Selma Traney, O'Neill NW Bell Telephone Co., Mrs. Edna Hubert. O’Neill; O’Neil' National Bank John Bruncko st, Inman: O'Neill Style Shop, Elsie Keyes, Inman: O’Neill Drug, John M. Grutsch, O’Neill: O'Neill Locker. Harold Humrieh. O'Neill: O'Neil Cleaners. Gerry Eppenhaeh O'Neill; Patton’s Ben Franklin. Mrs. L. A. Whaley, O’ Neill; Rogers Feed. Verne Eppen bach, O'Neill: Safeway Store, A E. Robinson, O'Neill; Seovie West ern Auto. Mrs. Jim Puckett, Em mett: Shelhamer jack & Jill. C. W. Alexander, Inman; Shelhamer Equipment, Earl Eppenhaeh. O’ Neill; Spelts-Ray Lumber, Henry Phelps, O'Neill: The Frontier. Jos. R. Matousek, Atkinson; Ten Pin Lanes, Ewalt Miller O’Neill; Thelnnder Auto. Owen Parkinson. O'Neill: Virgil Laursen Insurance, Ed Sukup, Page: Wm. Krotter Co., Irene Hickey, O’Neill. O'Neill Churches Have Programs Special Christmas church pro grams are (icing prepared by O' Neill children tins week. The O' Neill church programs are as follows: Bethany Presbyterian: Wednes day, Ik*c. 23, Church school Christ mas program, 7 p.m. Wesleyan Methodist: Sundaj school Christmas program, Sun daj', Dec. 20, 7:30 p.m. Assembly of God: Sunday schoo classes Christmas parties, Satur day afternoon. First Methodist: Sunday, Dec 20, Sunday school Christmas pro gram, 7:30 p.m. Christ Lutheran: Thursday, Dec 24, Sunday school Christmas serv ice, 7 p.m. The children of St. Mary’s Acad emy will present their annua Christmas program Monday. Dec 21 nt 8 p.m at St. Mary’s Gym. Also this Thursday, (tonight) the young people, the CA’s of the As sembly of God will Christmas carol in O'Neill. Howard Manson Elected Howard Manson, Clerk of the District Court, has been elected president of the State Clerks o: District Court Association. Man son was elected at the state meet ing for county officers in Omahi last week. Also elected to office was Fran! CYonk. Page, chairman of th< Holt County Board of Supervisors Cronk was named secretary-treas urer of the State Commissioner: and Supervisors Association. Manson said the main duties o his office will be arranging for th< state meeting next year. Express Freight Schedule Is Set A schedule for express froigh deliveries in and out of O’Neil was announced last week by Wm N. Spence, Chicago and Northwest em depot agent. Trucks now handle all of thi railway express both in and on of O'Neill and the service is speed ed up due to this. Railway Express has their own trucks operating on the run am arrive in O’Neill on Mondays am Thursdays. Outbound expres leaves O’Neill on Tuesday and Fri day and Spence said that if pack ages are at the depot by noon 01 these days, they will go out oi the 12:30 truck. OAMBI.E STORE PARTY Frank McKenny, manager of th clothing department of the Gam hies store here in O'Neill, held ; Christmas party for the employee at his home last evening. Pictured above are Father Peter Dunne. Mrs. A1 Havranek, Emmet. Joseph Meisner, Mrs. Leonard Knapp, Ewing, and Father Robert Duffy. These were among the guests of the Rural Life Leadership Training session Friday in O'Neill. Father Dunne, of Pierce, is the moderator for the Catholic Rural course of the Omaha Archdiocese. Mr. Meisner is from the Des Moines headquar ters of the Rural life Conference. The two cond acted the session which was attended by the clergy and members of the O’Neill deanery. Lynch Youths Apprehended Two Lynch youths. Lyle Milacek and Raymond Mohl, are being held in Holt county jail charged with forgery. Both men waived preliminary hearings and t)ond was set at $500. Sheriff Leo S. Tomjack appre hended the men and filed the for gery complaints. They are also be- j ing held for authorities at Colum bus where they are wanted on car theft charges. Sheriff Tomjack said that the men will probably be taken to Columbus Thursday or early Friday. Milacek allegedly wrote a $5 check to the Spare'time Cafe here and signed the name ‘Alan David” to the Lynch bank check Mold reportedly signed the same name to a $5 check written to I Candy Bill’s cafe. Harold Melcher of Page Is Association President Harold Melcher. Page, was elect ed president of the Holt County Hereford Breeders association at a meeting held Thursday in O' Neill. , Other officers elected were El wyn Robertson. Chambers, vice president, and Kieth Abart, O' Neill, secretary-treasurer. Henry Wood, Ewing, Vernon Whitaker, Chambers, Harlan [.arson O'Neill and Vein Sageser, Amelia, were named directors. The association set February 16 ns the date for their spring pure bred Hereford sale. Scout Drive Short of Goal Ken Curren, drive chairman for the Boy Scouts of America fund raising program, announced yes i terday that some $850 had been turned in. The drive goal is $2,000. Committeemen are still solicit ing money and Curren said that anyone wishing to donate for the Boy Scouts here in O'Neill may send a check to him in care of the i Kansas-Nebraska Gas company. Mrs. Rasley Hurt Sunday In Crash Near Waterloo Mrs. Georgia Rasley, who owns ' and operates the Royal theater , here in O’Neill, is reported to be in satisfactory condition at an Omaha hospital following a four J car crash near Waterloo Sunday. The accident occured on an over head pass. Mrs. Rasley was re ported to be the only person in jured in the accident. One of the vehicles involved left the scene and still had not been found. t - I Sale Dates Claimed 1 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30 800 1 acres real estate. 60 head of cattle 3 and good line of farm machinery. - Mr. and Mrs. Harold Green. Farm - located 1 mile east, four sooth and l v4 east of Chambers. Col Ed i Thorin auction service sale. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9th — Hereford sale of 35 coming 2-year 3 old bulls. Sale to be held at the - Atkinson Sale bam beginning at i 1 p.m. Charles Corkle, auctioneer, s Vernon Hixson, Neligh, sale man ager. Frontier To Publish Early Next Week The Frontier will publish one day early next week because of the Christmas holiday. Corres pondent* are requested to mall eopy one day earlier than usual so that we might receive the copy early. Advertisers are also requested to have their copy j ready early. Mrs. Butterfield Of Inman Dies Funeral services were conduct ed Monday for Mrs. Elmer (Alice M.) Butterfield of Inman at the First Methodist Church in O’Neill with Rev. Glenn Kennicott officiat ing. Burial was in Prospect Hill cem etery. Pallbearers were all grand sons: Charles. Larry and Gary Butterfield. David and Frederick Wright and Gene Gillogey. Mrs. Butterfield died December 11 at the Atkinson Memorial hos pital. She would have been 71 next week. Alice Myrtle Hathaway was born December 24, 1888. in Washta, hi., to Charles F. and Ann Hildreth Hathaway. Deeemher 15, 1909, she was mar ried in her parent's home to El mer Butterfield. In March of 1933 they moved to Holt County from Knox County, where they farmed until Mr. Butterfield's retirement. Three sons and five daughters were Ixrrn to £c Butterfields. Survivors are ner husband; sons, Irvin. Meadow Grove. Justin, Kelt ner, Mo., and Dale, Ewing; daugh ters, Mrs. Glenn (Opal) Gillogey Inman, Mrs. H. W. (Garnet! Thornton, Duarte, Calif., Mrs. Earl (Fern! Wright, Ewing, Mrs. Ray mond (Doris) Hoxsie, Orchard, and Mrs. Mcrlyn (Ruby) Shaw, Emmet; and a sister, Mrs, Charlie Parkhurst, Neligh. Verdel Man Dies As Result of Two-Car Crash Arthur Masden, Verdel, died at' St. Anthony’s hospital Monday fol lowing a two-car crash on the i crest of a hill Saturday afternoon near Verdel. Leonard Neilsen, also of Verdel, I driver of the other car, escaped serious injury. The crash occurred on a county road five miles north west of Verdel. Driver Asleep; Truck Crashes Ralph H. Rohling, 25, Mulrane, I Kan., was injured Saturday when i lie lost control of the semi-truck he was driving 1% miles west of Emmet. Rohling apparently fell asleep at I the wheel, said officer E. M. Has | treiter. The truck left Ihe road at an intersection and jacknifed into 1 i ditch. Rohling fell out of the truck and was run over by a front j wheel. The Kansas man is in the At | kinson Memorial hospital with six j crushed ribs and an injured lung. ! The truck he was driving belongs 1 to Donald L. Wilson, Riverdale, i Kan. Kenny Lee Is Top WAC Recruiter of 1959 Eugene (Kenny) Lee, son of Mrs. i Anita Lee, Ewing, has been named the ”Tdp WAC Recruiter of 1959.” Lee is a WAC recruiter with the Student Brigades at Ft. Benning, Ga. Lee enlisted in the Army in 1955 and has always been high in lead ership and scholarship. He began recruiting duty in 1958 at Sioux | City and completed his training at Ft. Benjamen Harrison, Ind., with the highest academic rating ever recorded in the Fifth Army. Ix?e also served as a senior med ical aid man and surgical section leader in Germany. Learning of his award, he said "The WAC’s are the hardest to get into any army field because of their high enlist ment standards.” Lee's wife and two children are living with his mother in Ewing. I^ee wall be a recruiter until se | lection for Officer’s Candidate j School. He is expected to be home for the holidays. Bob Gartner Is Satisfactory Robert Gartner, 53-year-old far mer from near Chambers, was reported to be in satisfactory con dition late Wednesday in St. Jos eph’s hospital in Sioux City. Gartner sustained compound fractures of the left leg December 9 when he was caught in the pow er take-off of his tractor. Although it is not yet definite, doctors be ; lieve they will save the leg. The j leg was broken at least seven times and a portion of the bone was lost. Anyone wishing to write Gart i ner may write in care of Third Floor, Room 350, St. Joseph’s Hos ! pital, Sioux City, la. Mrs. Augusta IJndhcrg, above, celebrated her IHltli birthday Sunday at tier home here in O'Neill. She came to llolt county with her family in 1883 from Sweden. Those attending the celebration were Mr. and Mrs. John Olson and Ardyee of Miiulen, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eindberg, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Rosencranz and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Eindberg and Ralph of O’Neill. A dinner was served at the home and the afternoon was spent visiting with Mrs. AJndberg and Esther and Eleanor. Another son, Oscar of I os An geles was unable to attend. O'Neill Born Pioneer, Frank Fallon, Dies Here Thursday; Was Farmer Funeral services were conduct ed Saturday for Frank Fallon, a life long resident of O’Neill, at St. Patrick’s Catholic church with Rev. Robert Duffy officiating. Burial was in Calvary ceme tery. Pallbearers were Leonard Morrow, William Kraft, Walter Donohoe, A] Satiser, Gerry Sauser and Orville Morrow. Mr. Fallon died December 10 at St. Anthony's hospital at the age of 76. He was born Auugst 19, 1883, the son of John and Mary Ilanni gan Fallon, both of Ireland. He married Theresa O’Brien in Win ner, S. D. Two children were born to this union, a son, now deceased, and a daughter, Mary Fallon, O’ Neill. Fallon farmed all his life un til he retired and moved to O’ Neill. He was preceded in death by his wife who died in 1947. Survivors in addition to his daughter, are a brother, William Fallon, Gregory, S. D, and two sisters, Mrs. Anna Moeller, Leigh, and Mrs. Catherine Burns, Colum bus. NNTA Proposes To Drop Norfolk; Add Grand Island rPl-»MnKracl/n Tmncnnrfn. tion Association has recommended replacing Norfolk with Grand Is land on the northern airline route if Frontier Airlines cancels it’s flights, said J. G. Brewster, asso ciation president from Stuart. The new route would include new stops at O'Neill and Gordon. Other stops enroute to Lincoln and Om aha would be Chadron, Valentine. Ainsworth and Grand Island. Brewster said that plans are be ing made even now to bring O'- ] Neill and Gordon airports up to | standard. The Grand Island stop would make faster connections for bus, train or air traffic east and west and would provide more pas senger service to a greater area.' Meanwhile state aeronautics of-1 ficials are protesting to Civil Aero- j nautics Board in Washington, D. j C., the removal of Frontier ser vice in this area. Prize Winners Given In McIntosh Sale Contest Bill McIntosh, owner and man-1 ager of McIntosh Jewelry here in I O'Neill, announced the winners in | the contest held at his store in conjunction with his business ad justment sale. Mrs. John Stuifbergen won the first place prize. Other winners were Marilyn Strong, Cherrian Knepper and Jeanette Fricke. Other winners are announced in his ad found in the second section of today's Frontier. Lee Store Party Held Lee Stores annual Christmas party was held last night and Christmas gifts and bonuses were given to all employees, according to Bob Roberts, store manager. After the dinner the employees and their husbands or wives went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ro berts. Tom Golden Is Bar President In San Diego A former resident of this com munity has recently been elected president of the San Diego Bar Association of San Diego Calif. He is Thomas P. Golden, 43, son of Mrs. J. Parnell Golden of Scotts bluff and the late Mr. Golden. Thomas Golden received his ear ly training in the O'Neill schools, before moving to Casper, Wyo., and then returning to Hastings to complete high school. All of his legal training was gained at Creighton University in Omaha, and he was admitted to the Nebraska Bar in 1940. He served in the marines during world war II. In 1947 he moved to California, and was ad mitted to the har in that state the same year. He- has been a memlter of the San Diego bar association, which comprises some 675 members, since 1947. and has played a prom inent part in it's activities. Dur g,F.' .■'St! a Tom Golden ing the past year, he has headed the Municipal Court Committee, a group of lawyers appointed to ex amine the crowded conditions of the local courts, and to make re comendations to the governor of California. Just how well Golden’s recom mendations were received is borne out by the fact that they have been put into effect in their entirety by the state government. Since the inception of the court committee, Golden has been in constant de mand as a speaker by local civic and service organizations. The newly elected president of the bar has been a member of the board of directors for the past two years, and has taken an ac tive part in the affairs of one of the largest bar associations in the United States. Upon assuming it’s presidency, he will guide the group which has been twice cited by the American Bar association in nation al competition for progressive bar activities. Golden is a devoted family man and lives at 3552 Fenelon Street in San Diego with his wife, Jane, and their four children, Michael, 13, Peggy, 12 Tommy, 10 and Cathy, 9. Son Testifies Against Mother in Boyd Court The case of the brnce-and-bit murder of Franklin VainT unt ie was pxpeeted to go to the jury this afternoon (Thursday'. But the defend ant, Mrs. Sadie Dickerson, 59-year-old Boyd county farm woman and mother of Franklin, had not yet taken the stand when the jury trial adjourned at 4 : 'J0 p.m. Wednesday to resume again at S' o'clock this morning. The prosecution’s key witness was Nyal Franeh, IT. a son of Mrs Dickerson and a half-brother of Vnnderlinde. Easily the defenses best witness until Thursday morning was Dr. Edward A. Holyoke of Oma ha, professor of anatomy at the University of Nebraska college of medicine. Members of the Boyd county district court jury are: Ray Slbhel, Butte farmer; Chester Wilson, | Butte auto dealer; Arden Ander- | son, Butte, employee of the state ; highway department; Mrs. Eliza beth Johnson, former Bristow post master; Ix'onanl Filsinger, Spoil- | cor farmer; E. J. Richter, Spencer i farmer; Algot Sandberg, Bristow i farmer; William Connot, Spencer | farmer; Earl Reiser, Spencer farmer; Oscar Boettcher. Anoka ; farmer; Chester Ross, Spencer , businessman, and Charles Sedla- , cek, Spencer farmer. Presiding judges are District | Judge Lyle Jackson of Neligh and District Judge D, R. Mounts of O’Neill, who has been ill. William p. Wills ol Butte, Boyd county attorney, is being assist-1 ed in the prosecution by Julius D. i Cronin of O’Neill, who has been conducting most of the examina tion and cross-examination and is expected to make the prosecution plea to the jury. George Johnson of Gregory, S. D., and William L. Brennan of j Butte, former Boyd county attor ney are counsel for Mrs, Dicker son. After vigorous examination of prospective jurors it was neces sary noon Monday to summon 10 additional prospects who had previously received summons. Of the first 50 examined, 21 were woman. In mid-afternoon it be came necessary to recruit six pros pective jurors from the gallery of spectators and one of these Charles Sedlacek - became one of the 12 who survived the pre emptory challenges of the attor neys. Eliminated from the pros nnofivn lie# hnniiiKO nf “rotlSP ience” in a first degree murder situation were Floyd Kelley, Mrs. Tillie Wesche, Elsie Barr. Mrs. Myrna Frederichs, Mrs. Mary, Soukup, I. R. Armfield and Ray Counts. Two others—Melvin Lue ken and William H. Snyder said they were “prejudiced” and were eliminated. Tuesday Morning . . . First witness called Tuesday morning was Jack Wells, publish er of the Butte Gazette and Spen-1 cer Advocate. He identified black and-white photographs of Vender-i linde’s head wound. The pictures, Wells testified, were made at the Raymer Mortuary prior to Van derlinde’s burial in the Naperj cemetery. One photo, admitted as an exhibit, showed a rod insert ed in the hole in Vanderlinde’s head. , . Joe Tennis, O'Neill mortician, told of plugging the hole with cot ton after embalming Vanderlinde’s body and before turning the re mains over to D. B. Raymer, Butte mortician, who testified- the bar| inserted in the hole “penetrated to about three inches”. George Alexander, who farms one mile from Mrs. Dickerson's place, testified he had traded farm equipment with the defendant and the deceased. He said Vanderlinde had been employed by him to op erate a tractor in farming opera tions. He said Vanderlinde had been stricken by one epileptic seizure while in his employ "two or three years ago”. He said Mrs. Dickerson had told him Franklin's seizures would occur “before 10 in the morning.” Alexander char acterized Vanderlinde as a “good worker” and would leave him on his own after 10 or 10:30 in the forenoons. Franch took the stand and testified against his mother. He east only one glance at his mo ther, who was seated sullen in the courtroom through most of the trial. This glance came in response to Cronin’s asking if Mrs. Dickerson had attacked both boys with “clubs and sticks in displays of violent temper.” Franch’s answer was “Yes.” Franch said Vanderlinde’s guar dian had paid $30 monthly with regular frequency. He said Vander linde has inherited “around nine thousand dollars” from Vander linde’s father, who died in Brown county. After Franklin became 21 (March 4) the payments ceased. Franch said: “On June 21 I was up at 7:30, milked, helped with chores, went to our South Dakota farm and did chores, returned. At 9:30, George Alexander stopped in. When George left I started some welding. My mom and I went down the road a half-mile to roundup a lost turkey. When I got hack Franklin was welding. "I heard her and him arguing in loud voices. He said something about ‘Shut your mouth or I’ll stop paying.’ She said: ’I don’t have to.’ “‘I was welding and Frank pest ered me. I ran out of welding rod and he (Vanderlinde) put on the1 welding hood. He picked up some1 cable and, swinging it, struck me on the thumb. I picked up the brace and bit off the ground and threw it overhand, hitting him Vanderlinde) in the hark of the lead as he was walking away rom me. He was almut 30 feet i way. "Next I saw her straddling him Vanderlinde I and I saw ellxiw novement. 1 went over there. She ook the brave and bit to a near ly tree and dropped them. 1 put lis headiatal shoulders in my lap md told mom to go get some cloth, the was in the house several niin ltes When she eame out she had m a different dress She got the >ickup and we loaded him into the lic-kup and headed for Butte. It vas Sunday. We stopped first at he drug store and got ahold of )octor Hawkins (K.C., MID who jave him a shot. Ivan Hansen and [ took him to the O'Neill hospital, fe was dead when we got there." Young Franck straddled a hook on the floor to demonstniti* to the Jury how Ids molher had straddled Vanderlinde. Nyal said when lie approached lis mother after she had straddled Vanderlinde, she said to him: 'You killed him." Nyal testified ie did not see his mother with draw the bit from his half-broth er's head. The boy said his molher told him to say it was an accident. She also told him about "truth serum," he said Dr. It. W. Waters of O'Neill, who examined Vanderlinde short ly after his arrival at the hospi tal, said lie immediately determin ed that Vanderlinde was dead He testified his firm had a ease his tory on Vanderlinde who had been treated in the past (including one period of hospitalization) for epil nntie seizures. He said the medical record showed Vanderlinde hud suffered no seizures between Sep tember 8, 1958, and June 15, 1959, when he last visiled the office (six days before his death). Waters also ileset :hod Vander llnde's appearance when brought to the hospital. ‘‘There was dirt on body and head, dried blood on the right side of the head, round, wound about one-half inch in diameter.” He said he performed an autopsy "four or five days later” nt the Ray me r mortuary. “There was a wound through the right temple, through base of brain, extend ing to — but not through — the left temple. Vanderlinde died of disruption of the brain and hem orrhage caused by an instrument that penetrated. It was not a missile wound.” Tuesday Afternoon . . . A critical punt in the trial came Tuesday afternoon when Franch was being cross-examined by Johnson. In Mrs. Dickerson’s pre liminary hearing in county court July 6, Franch had testified in be half of his mother. Johnson made a strenuous effort to place in the record questions-and-answers of the July 6 hearing but the prose cution objected. Judge Jackson ruled that Franch’s testimony at his mother’s preliminary hearing, where ho was a witness, could not now he impeached when tie (Franch) is a witness against his mother. The court pointed out that Brennan was Mrs. 1 )ickerson’s counsel then, also Nyal’s counsel at that time. Brennan is still Mrs. Dickerson’s counsel hut no longer Nyal’s. (Young Franch for several weeks has had a court-appointed nttornev! John It. Gallagher of O'Neill.) While the jury was out of the courtroom, the defense offered for the record there had been vari ance in Nyal’s testimony at the post-crime interrogations, at the Dickerson preliminary hearing and during his Tuesday testimony. Lieutenant Gerald Teseh of Lin coln, a native of northern Holt county and a criminal investigator for the Nebraska safely patrol, testified that he interrogated Mrs. Dickerson two hours on the morn ing of July 3 and four hours in the afternoon He said that Mrs. Dickerson initially declared Van derlinde’s death was an accident. "Later in the day, however, she said, 'I killed him’.” He said Boyd Sheriff Claude Col lins and Mrs. Collins were outside the room during most of the in terrogation at the O'Neill court house, (Mrs. Dickerson has been j held at O’Neill most of the inter vening time, also a short time at Lincoln, because Boyd has no facilities for women prisoners.) Tesch and Collins said Mrs. Dickerson told them individual ly, jointly and repeatedly — “up to a dozen times” — that she had killed Vanderllnde. Tesch quoted her as saying: ”‘I kill ed him, I killed him; I’ll [dead guilty’.” Tesch and Collins said Mrs. Dickerson repeatedly de clined to give details. Tesch told the jury under cross examination he had called on Nyal (continued on Want Ad Page)
