Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1911 — POOLE JURY RETIRED AT 2:30 P. M. TODAY. [ARTICLE]

POOLE JURY RETIRED AT 2:30 P. M. TODAY.

Attorney Hall Talked Until Noon and Judge DeHart Issued His Instructions After Noon Recess. SpdEial to The Republican. Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 18—The Poole jury retired at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon, after hearing the instruction* of Judge DeHart which were delivered after the noon recess. Attorney Grant Hall, who had occupied the Friday afternoon and Saturday morning sessions of the court in making his closing argument for the state, also talked from 10 to 12 o’clock today. There is a quite general impression that Poole will be convicted, but it is not probable that the verdict will be death. A Lafayette Morning Journal reporter called at the Tippecanoe county jail Sunday evening and interviewed John W. Poole. In answer to questions Poole said: /

“I don’t know what verdict the Jury is going to bring in, but I want them to send me to Indianapolis where I can get treatment. I killed Joe Kemper just as I always said I did, but I believe I am insane and. have been for a long time. • “If they acquit me, I am going to my sister in Maryland and leave my family. They have the farms, I have nothing to do with them. .They may send me to the penitentiary but I won’t live very long anyway. I had r sunstroke some years ago and now I ihave smothering spells, when I can’t breathe. I am sick and can’t live very long.’’ “What would you do to your son Emory if you were freed?” Poole was asked. “I wouldn’t harm a hair of his head,” was the answer. Poole seemed very nervous and alarmed at his physical condition and asked the reporter to feel his pulse. When told that it seemed to be regular he lost some of his anxiety and talked more easily.