Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1919 — MURDERER'S SON ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF THEFT. [ARTICLE]
MURDERER'S SON ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF THEFT.
Emery Poole was arrested at noon •Swanington, for the alleged theft of an automobile, taken from J. E. Endicott, of Crawfordsville. The ear is said to have been taken from the fair grounds at Crawfordsville on August 29, and was located in Chicago through the Weinhardt dedetective agency of Lafayette. Young Poole, it willhe rwnmmibered, was instrumental in having his father, John Poole, sent to the state prison in 1911; for the murder of a farm hand, Joseph Kemper, who was employed on the Poole farm. The case was tried in the Tippecanoe circuit court, and created much attention at the time. The late Judge Richard P. DeHart was judge of the circuit 'court at the time and presided at the trial •of Poole. Young Poole was arrested by Chief of Police Erwin, of Crawfordsville, and the sheriff of Benton county. When the car was found it had an Indiana license issued to Poole’s mother.
