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*r«i«l-Cie*ccDillman FacesHearing onMurder ChargePlane Reported In Trouble; Lands SuccessfullyHearing SeCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1Oshkosh — A plane with a possible jammed landing gear| made a successful la'nding at1 Winnebago County airport Sunday night.The sheriff's departmentOn Propos Plant Addiarea was search Sunday with a metal detector from the Neenah police.The tall grass anti brush is being burned over today with the city of Gmro fire department standing by.Sheriff Lowry said the search will continue until the tool is found or he is satisfied that it is not there. He said he may request the district attorney to allow Dill-man to return to the scene of the crime to aid in the search.received a call at 6.42 pmthat a plane was making acrash landing An ambulancewas sent to the field. Thejpilot made a pass over the i field and a car was driven below the plane jm an attempt to determine if the wheels were down.,The plane landed successfully and investigation revealed the indicator light on the .instrument panel did not ' show the gear was down.Menasha — A publ mg on the Menasha Ware corporation's tion to build a 40 by wai chouse additionshipping departmentheld at the council clabove the fire stationm. next Monday.The hearing was c the public service sion because the r structure would lt;dxte the north side of the er and would rdsL. on piers in the fiver* I be located -below the ment dam. ' • . Dillman was arrested Tuesday in Nebraska for hitchhiking. A check of a fictitious name and Oshkosh address he was using led to his being returned to Wisconsin Friday. He was taken directly to the state crime laboratory m Madison where. Steinhilber said, he confessed to the staying.Steinhilber said Dillman admitted he struck the Schmidt girl on the spot where her body was found. Both were outside the car when he struck her. Dillman said he threw the tire iron m the vicinity.Held IncommunicadoThe youth has been held Incommunicado in the Winnebago county jail since his return there Saturday morning from Madison. His statement was recorded on tape but it has not been reduced to writing and so far officials have no signed confession.Steinhilber said Dillman doesn't remember all the details and he was being held incommunicado to give him a chance to do some recoilce-ing. A tie detector was usedat the crime laboratory and Dillman was quite cooperative, Steinhilber said.The John Doe hearing will be discontinued, because, as Steinhilber put it, “such a hearing is necessary only ‘when we have no idea who jcommitted the crime.” adding, “I'm satisfied that Dill-man is the man who killed Ruth Schmidt.”No Motive RevealedSteinhilber has refused to go into details of the confession and also declined to reveal the motive for the slaying, but referred to it as “lurid.”“We've got to pick a jury to try this case,” the prosecutor said, “and if I were to release too many of the lurid details, we’d never get an impartial panel ”Sheriff Lowry indicated Miss iSchmrdt was killed when she 'apparently resisted Diilman's j advances after both had visited two taverns the night of Aug. 15 Lowry said that one blow by Dillman knocked out Miss» Schmidt’s teeth and the j other caused the basal skull ‘fracture from which she died..Menasha Man: FiFor Beating WifiMenasha — Jasplt; 45, 108£ Mam street ted beating up his v day night and was : and costs on a d conduct charge. Pol tice Arthur Ales fir this morning. John rested at his apartrrCapacity t(Needed, DMenasha — “If w permanent peace, noi ourselves, but for tl world as well, we m the capacity to repe ressor,” State Sen. Drahcim told membc Menasha Veterans of Wars post Sunday By remaining sir discourage aggress: promote world pea force and meaning words of our diplom guarantee our way oi not be changed by a£ AWisconsin
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Appleton Post Crescent
Appleton, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Nov 10, 1958
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