Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1917 — Bay Who Father to Prison Married—Will Live Near Here. [ARTICLE]

Bay Who Father to Prison Married—Will Live Near Here.

Lafayette Journal. Emory Poole, who a Jew years ago occupied the first page of the newspapers when he accused his father, John W. Poole, of murdering Joseph Kemper, a farm hand employed on the Poole farm near Swanington, has again stepped from seclusion by entering the matrimonial sea. On last Monday Poole and Miss Dora Troxal, sos Williamsport, were married at the hone of Pool’s mother. lie and his bride will reside on a farm near Rensselaer. ’ ' ■ ' ■ ■■ In the spring of 1912 Emory Poole gave this section of the state a thrill when he openly accused his father of murdering Kemper. Detectives were employed and a seareh made of the Poole farm. No evidence was found and John Poole was released. Two weeks later, Emory Poole who was bent on avenging the death of Kemper, started on a lone hand search. He finally succeeded in locating the body of Kemper in a field about three feet beneath the ground. John Poole was arrested at Rensselaer and taken to Fowler. He admitted killing Kemper but claimed it was accidental, declaring his gun was discharged as he was getting over -a fence. He cut the body of Kemper to pieces and buriad it with some hog entrails straw stack, where it was found by Emory Poole. The murder was committed in December, 1911. Poole was tried befoer Judge DeHart in this county and was sent to the penitentiary for life.