, 1935-05-28

and Calkins. who were on the front
seat were discussing places both had
visited, suddenly McAlister. who was
riding on the back seat, said: Wei,
this looks like Just a. good a place as
any TO take you, you -.
Calkins asked What Is this?" the
statement continued.
Palmer and CalkinS both looked
around, according 70 the statement,
and McAliSter told Calkins TO stop
the car. While Calkins was stopping
the car, according to the statement,
McAlister shot him in the back with
a pistol. Calkins dying instantly.
The statement told how Palmer
and McAlister placed the body IN
the e seat and covered II with
luggage, and later drove down the
Red Gate road and dumped the body
into some brush. Palmer's alleged
statement then said that he and
McAlister drove TO Raymondv1lle.
then to Sebastian, and then TO Rio
Hondo, where Palmer found his wife
and father-in-law working for the
Valley Shows.
New Motion Made
Judge Ferguson at noon Tuesday
was considering a defense motion
asking that a supplementary state
ment obtained by officers Of Cam
eron and Hidalgo counties from
Palmer be withheld from evidence.
While the statement was being
read. Palmer sat with bowed head.
his face flushing a fiery red through
his fingers as they covered his head.
Defense attorneys have intimated
that Palmer will take the stand IN
his own defense and that they Will
seek to show Palmer merely an
accessory and not a principal.
Sheriff Art Goolsby Of Browns
vile was one OF the four Valley Of
ficers called to the stand oy the
state Monday afternoon. he was
preceded by Hickman Hill, Cameron
county deputy sheriff, who old OF
receiving a telephone call from an
unknown person in Harrington on
April .. Hill testified he called
sheriff Goolsby at Brownsville.
Goolshy. accompanied by Border
Patrolman Chas. Red See Oh
brownsville. Hill, Chief OF Police
Gage johnson OF Harlingen, State
Highway Patrolman Hill Foreman
of Harrington and others, mme-
diately drove to Rio Hondo, the
witness testified.
The sheriff asserted that his
search of a carnival revealed Palm
or identified BY officers as a tall
boy with a tattoo mark on the size
OF his neck. in a small tent. AFTER
a brief discussion. GoolSby stated,
Palmer agreed TO tell them what ne
knew about the Calkins case II
they would promise not to arrest
his wife. whose father operated the
carnival kitchen. The sheriff re-
counted Palmer's implication OF
McAlister as the actual slayer OF
Calkins. his advice that McAlister
could be found in San Antonio. the
trim to San Antonio. McAlisters ar
rest and return to Edinburg.
Objections Overruled
On croSs-eyamination. Judge A.
w. Cameron Of defense counsel ask
ed Goolsby il Palmer had not CO.
operated with officers in every way.
the witness answered in the affirm
alive. On redirect questioning,
DistIRet Attorney Rogers Kelly
asked Goolsby If Palmer had told
him, during his investigation and
the trip to San Antonio and return,
that he CPalmer) had been in the
Calkins car with McAlister and
CaIkins when Calkins was shot TO
death. Goolsby'S answer. made aft
er strenuous defense objections had
been oyerruled. was: mol
Thus was the states predicate
laid for its effort to prove Palmers
connection with the Staying. as a
principal.
Kelley placed Assistant District
Attorney Gene Catlett on the stand
late Monday to predicate his intro
duction Of Planners written state
ment concerning the case. Catleft
asserted Palmer had b0en given
the usual statutory warning and
that he had given the statement 70
Palmer for reading and corrections
after it had been reduced 70 writ
fng. Palmer. he said. signed the
statement and each page of II.