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Iie-i/p)iab!eddmitted Bludgeon Slayer to GetHearing, Lawyer DespiteRefusal*:for aOSHKOSH(/P)VernontwoDillman, admitted bludgeon van-slayer of Ruth Schmidt, 17, willhave a preliminary hearing andk, 42,legal counsel despite his nega-firm.of thelgineddisap-Cal-tive responses at his arraignment Monday.“I think we ought to have a preliminary hearing because of the serious nature of the case,”Dist. Attv. John Steinhilberis.Atty. told the court.re re-The 22-year-old State Re-/ resi-lklandmilesformatory parolee is charged with second degree murder in the Aug. 15 slaying of theCana-pretty blonde office worker.alsoIllegitimate Childrcraftorm.Municipal Judge S. J. Luch-ordereda preliminaryFridaysingerhearing on the murder charge the morning of Nov. 18 and inter- scheduled another preliminaryfor that same afterstorm hearing ior tnat same snow noon on a second charge i foot Dillman failedthatto support anmoun- illegitimate child not yet bornto a 14-year-old girl in Mena-others sha.agedv.i St;in awhoter i ' T1Ivvhe:coupmotlhashornawa:lega\Vdajuphe Publa pprnng i 48, ;JuWis- Dillman had told the judgehe didn’t want a preliminary' lomas hearing, and he shook his head James and said “No” when askedWant Old Arrangementi, and whether he wanted an attor-Wis. ney.Steinhilber said that if rela-Wal-in State Job Vacations..... ...........—AP Wire photoVernon Dillman, 22, Oshkosh, stood between Winnebago County Sheriff Charles Lowry, left, and Dist Atty.Jack Steinhilber before hewaul last we Iflegaltrarjing lt;Hlt;saidrighlmior* (4■, both tives can't hire an attorney, the, MAn|cn\TI court would appoint one to de- , ..I fend Dillman. ‘ a nwas arraigned on the charge of murdering 17-year-old Ruth Schmidt last Aug. 15.mei with the 1 T\A Legis-’vacation schedule and set upCouncil)ennisb andThe judge ordered the young man held in lieu of $25,000losionbond.proposedconsin state three weeks'ofsubcommittee a new schedule of holidays. Monday that Wis-State Traffic Fatalityier athe foremployesvacationpetotherI in aSearch for WeaponMeanwhile Winnebago County deputies said a search with a National Guard mine detector had failed to locate the tire waukee), iron Dillman said he used to committeeone year or employment ; they did before 1957.Cut in 1957The 1957 law set vacations Hjk j || tQ 593at one week after one year of j after employment; two w'eeks after j (By The Awocuted press)as tw'o years’ service and three!tion,T1of tlA weekend traffic death re-5,motported today raised the Wis terrrSenMil-Kirby Henee (R-chairman of a subweeks after 10 years.Henee also proposed Aany employe who has served Year t0 compared withconsin highway fatality toll for20 years be given a month va-Mstudying recruit-cation each year.ment of workers for the state’skill the girl. ....Weil continue to look for mental health institutions pro-Saves $500,000781 at this time a year ago.Joseh Honne, 21, of Chetek.jent killed Sunday when the isteiwasSunday when which hethe iron until we find it or are, ,** said u*es revert t0 pre-1957 stacar in wmcn ne was riding spea E. C. Giessel, director of the \ went out of control on a curve I Tow posed that the vacation sched- State Department of Budgets near Cameron and overturned.mg.satisfied it is not there,Sheriff Charles Lowry.tus.The 1957 Legislature passedThe spot is across the lonely shaps'Sand Pit Road from the w'eedyilegislation which cut down theand Accounts, said that a studyjust completed by his department would out theunder theput1957 lawsavings at abouthigh- ditch where Miss Schmidt’s de-felvincomcomposed body was discoveredOct. 28.Plunge Fatal$500,000 a year.He said that claims made infoundspurred aDillman, who hadofars 64 reVP acilitieThe discovery search for been seen with Miss Schmidt in an Oshkosh tavern the night of Aug. 15, when she last was seen aliveto Oshkosh Manthe 1957 Legislature in support of the proposal estimated sav*for shorter vacations atOSHKOSHRoberti IViolated Parolea hospital sufferedIt was learned Dillman leftSmith, 38, died in Monday of injuries earlier in the day in a plunge from the window of his blazingmgsnearly $4 million.“You will recall that in thefinance committee I scoffed atthat figure,” Giessel said.Wilbur Schmidt, director ofigapartment.A police officer making anearly morning check of the expired in less than two weeks. d ' at (he r(.ar of the down.were Oshkosh the next day, violating60 his parole which would havethe State Department of Pub lie Welfare, said that his department wras handicapped bythe law in recruiting person.• susin th to 2.i 1957Dillman wasNebraskapicked up byNov.4. A chtstate troopers k with Oshkosh au*townSmithrooming1 hehouse wherenel.rd a crash atLegionnaire Dies;mpor 1 enreside*;the front of the building. He thorities revealed his true iden-jfound Smjth iying unconscioustity. He was returned to Wis- on the sidewalk. Smoke poured K43ndQ0c! Blt;9ncJ consin, taken first to the State from the broken window. | ^Crime Laboratory in Madisom, Firemen theorized that Smith where he was interrogated last may haven fallen asleep whilerected Friday night. ismoking in bed. The mattressThe next day Steinhilber an-;and several articles of clothingOCONOMOWOC — lt;7P —Arthur Rhodee, 62, manager of {Oconomowoc’s American Levomlegion band since its tion in 1924, died Monday following a heart at tack.to* nounccd that the interrogators were ablazeorganiza at homethose had obtained “a confession of Smith died of a skull frac-re acassault and murder.”itureTIZZYBy Kate OsannUnder Rhodee’srment,Wisconsinmanage-the band representedthree inauguralat
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