Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1911 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Eries Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Gollmar Bros, show next Saturday, May 13. If it’s not right, we make it right.—Depot Grocery. F. W. Fisher of Kankakee tp., was down on business Thursday. I. X. Warren and little son were Chicago visitors Thursday. Miss Ruth Sayler is visiting with friends in Winamac this week. James Burling of Remington was a business visitor in the city W ednesday. M iss Erica Troll, music teacher in the city schools, spent Thursday in Chicago. Mrs. J. W. Horton returned home Wednesday from a couple of days visit in Lafayette. A son was born Thursday to their second child, both sons. Mrs. Ina Shesler returned home the first of the week from a short visit with freinds in Remington. August Schultz of Union tp. has purchased the Overland torpedo auto owned by Dr. Hansson, the local agent. B. G. Oglesby and family of Knox were in the of days the first of the week visiting with relatives. There was quite a freeze Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights, which has no doubt badly damaged the fruit. Marion Cooper returned home Thursday from a prospecting in the Dakotas and the northwest, being absent several weeks.

H. M. Shipman expects to leave next week for Burke, So. Dak., to spend the summer with his daughter, Mrs. Everal Smith and family. Mrs. Mary Jane Hopkins returned home from Monticello Thursday where for the past several weeks she has been staying with her son. Rollie Gates is very §ick with pneumonia in both lungs, the attending physician stating that his condition was somewhat doubtful Thursday. The Ladies of the first ward of the Rresbyterian church will hold their regular monthly social at the home of Mrs. A. J. Bellows Tuesday afternoon, May 9. J. W. McFarland of Purdue was here last week and took samples of fertilizer being shipped here this spring, for analysis, under the state supervision. A daughter was born May 1 to Mr, and Mrs., Clark Bartee of Lafayette formerly of Remington. Weight 9 1 /> pounds, and it has Teen named Katherine Elizabeth.

Miss Belle Laßue is now able to be up some after her illness of several weeks, and, if her condition will permit, she will return to 'DePauw and complete 1 her course there. William Daniels, who has been in very poor health Tor j several months, is no*y feeling quite a little better and is able to go out riding every pleasant day, we are glad to state.

White Clover Honey, 15c carton. — Home Grocery. ~ Simon- Leopold was in Chicago on business Wednesday. Dr. I. M. Washburn was called to Shelby Thursday in consultation. Those fancy colored shopping baskets at the Home Grocery are very cheap at 30c, 40c and 50c. Mrs. B. F. Edwards and children of Chicago are spending the week here as guests of relatives. Mrs. Walter Forbes and Mrs. L. H. Hamilton were in Lafayette one day the first of the week. ■ . - - • Will and Earl Barkley and Bruce Hardy were in Lafayette Wednesday to see about some stable horses. • Mr. and Mrs. M. Martinson and son of Chicago were guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Hansson; a few days the first of the week. Muncie. the largest “dry” city in Indiana, voted “wet” Tuesday by a majority of 476. It will have 25 saloons. Two years ago Muncie voted dty by'2o9. J. V. Parkison and wife of l’.ucklen, Kan.,, who have been visiting here with their daughter, Mrs. Walter Porter, went to Chicago Wednesday for a short visit with relatives.

James Peregrine went to Hebron Wednesday for a visit with his daughter, Mrs, Ora Best, after which he expects to go to the Dakotas on a prospecting trip before he-decides upon any permanent location. Blaine Gwin, who is employed in charity work near Winnipeg, stopped off Wednesday for a short visit with his parents while on his way to Patterson, N., J., where he expects to be for some time in the future. Bert Hammond of Coats, Kan., is visiting his uncles, Stewart Hammond and Walter Porter, a few days this week. Being called to Indianapolis qn business he decided it was a good chance to stop off here them, hence the visit. As it was near taxpaying time, three Gillamites started to Rensselaer to pay their taxes. They, got as far as Monon, made a mistake and got on the wrong train and went to Lafayette. They shipped their goods back Saturday evening and started home Sunday morning, arriving in the evening. xx The little daughter of Ed Fay received a. fracture of the collar bone last Friday, but is getting along as well as could be expected now\ It seems that the children were playing with bottles in the yard and in some manner one was thrown so as to strike the child on the collar bone, resulting in the fracture of that member. Sim Dowell, or “Sim, the cattle dealer,” former county commissioner, came Wednesday from Conway, lowa, for a brief visit with his brother-in-law, Thomas Tanner, returning home Thurs/ day, followed by James Hallagan, who will attempt to collect a judgment the Hallagans secured against him in the noted cattle stealing case several years ago.

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W. J. Wright spent yesterday in Chicago. Miss Flora Harris was in Lafayette yesterday. ‘ Fred Phillips was in Chicago on business yesterday. Alters fine corn meal, 25c a sack.— Depot Grocery Today’s markets : Corn, 46c ; Oats, 29c ; Wheat7~B4c. Al ■ John Eger was in the Windy City on business Wednesday. Jesse Wilson of Hammond was in the city yesterday on business. Joseph Putts spent Wednesday and part of Thursday in Chicago. Harvey Wood, Sr., was in Monon visiting with relatives yesterday. i Rev. Clarke will preach at the Lawnsdale school house next Sunday at 3 p. m. James Overton returned home yesterday from an extended visit with relatives in Rossville. Arthur Parridv of McCoysburg was called to Logansport yesterday by the serious illness of his cousin, Leo Woodruff. Dr. Finch, the Indianapolis specialist, will make his next regular visit to Rensselaer next Saturday, May 13. See his adv. elsewhere. Uncle Charlie Pullins, the most extensive alfalfa grower in Jasper county, he having some ten or twelve acres on his farm in Barkley tp., sold 30 bales of alfalfa to Johp M. Knapp Tuesday at sls per ton. He has put out about an acre of alfalfa on his little farm at the west side of town, the plat lying next to the sidewalk on the way to the cemetery. This is good rich ground and should produce several cuttings each year. Miss Maude Young of Joliet, 111., during her stay in Jasper county, gave two recitals which were well received. She is a young lady of pleasing personality, and as a reader shows good selections and style of rendering taste and refinement in choosing them, without the objectionable features sometimes noticed jji public readers. She was assisted during the evening by musical numbers, among them several pleasing songs by Mrs. Iva Pullins. / xx X. Littlefield of Jasper county and Prosecutor Fred Longwell of Brook returned Wednesday from Kokomo where they attended the state meeting o£ the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Longwell was honored by being selected a delegate from the Tenth district to the national meeting at Buffalo in, June. Besides affording Mr. Longwell a fine outing he will receive $lO per day and mileage for the session, which lasts, we believe, five days. Mr. Littlefield was elected Mr. Longwell’s alternate. One of John Knapp’s Ford autos driven by Art Battleday ran into the ditch Tuesday evening near the small bridge on the .poor farm road, resulting in the breaking of two wheels and the windshield and other miner payts of the machine. Battleday, except for a few scratches, was uninjured, while the Smith boy, who was with him, was thrown against a fence post breaking it squarely in two, and resulting in a bad shake-up for the lad. Battleday says the steering gear locked on him and that he was not running very fast, the machine' swerving and owing to the disabled steering gear, he says, he was unable to control the machine. Quite a strip of fence was torn down by the erratic course of the auto.

SCHOOL ENUMERATION

So Far as Reported Shows Increase Over Last Year. With Marion and Union townships not yet reported, the school enumeration for 1911 shows a considerable increase over 1910, as will be noted in the table below : 1910 1911 Loss Gain Barkley .... 332 359 27 Carpenter .. 281 299 18 Gillam ..... 188 208 20 Hang. Grove. 128 128 Jordan ... ~ 198 215 17 Kankakee .. 153 141 12 Milroy 74 102 28 Newton .... 144 146 2 Walker .... 257 293 36 Wheatfield .. 144 166 22 Remington , 257 257 Rensselaer . 1 620 608 12 Wheatfield .. 117 96 21

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I. W. POOLE IS ARRESTED FOR MURDER

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talk the English language, but could say a few words. Joe came there the: first time to work in May, 1907, and worked about two months and then went to Chicago. .. Father gave Joe a check for $5 and Joe looked at it and said: ‘ls that all I get?' "Father told Joe that was all the money he had and for him to come back and he would pay him the rest. Joe went away, and in April, 1908, came back and father got him to work for him again. Joe worked for him until July. 1908, and on July o, 1908, father hauled a load of corn to Swanington and got two checks. One he gave to Joe, which was for sl4, and Joe was not going to take it. But again father put him off and told Joe to write and he would send it to him. I think Davidson, the grocer, cashed the check on July 4. In the tall of 1909 Joe wrote for his money, and father did not answer, so. in a few days, Joe came down after his money. He told me he had but one brother in this country, and he worked in an ice plant in Chicago. “Joe never wrote to any one that I know of, and this was the third time he had v worked here. He said he had worked in Michigan in the pineries and that he had also worked on a boat on Lake Michigan as a fireman. When he came back the last time he did not come with the intention of working for father, but came to get what money was due him from the iast time he worked here, and he told me that father lacked about S3O of paying him what was due him at that time. The only clothes he brought he had on his back, and that was a fair suit of clothes.

‘.‘Father gave him one of his hard-luck stories that he is in the habit of putting up and asked Joe to work for him awhile, as he needed help to drive one of the teams hauling rock. This was in the fall of 1909. I do not remember the date, Joe worked until the 12th day of December, 1909. 'Joe bought wjiat clothes he worked in at Jones & Embleton’s store at Swanington, and at Fowler. If the people of this community doubt my word in rega’rd to this affair they *had better find Joe’s brother first, and see if he has ever seen him or heard from Joe since that time, and if you can find Joe Kemper alive you can take me out and burn my body to ashes or send me to the pen for life, as this is all I can forfeit to pay the bill.

“My mother and my sister Grace can tell you as mudh about this case as I have told you, for mother and I have talked this matter over time and again, and my mother is the one that told me that she saw father digging at the stack where the search wa9 made a short time ago by an Indianapolis detective. Mother has also told me that Joe never went off the place alive. In a day or so mother said to me: ‘Joe’s Sunday shirt is upstairs, and his buttons and collar huttons, collar and tie. It looks as though, if he was going to Chicago, he would have worn them.’ “She also told me to look at the pocketbook father had and a day book, and see if I had ever seen them before. One day father was in the house writing some letters, and he took this stuff but of his pocket and laid them on the writing desk, and I walked up and picked up the day book and looked at it and laid it down and I said, ‘You have got a new pocketbook. Where did you get it?” He said, ‘Give that pocketbook here; you didn’t buy it.’ “One morning he left his knife where he had started a fire and when mother got up she picked the knife up and laid it in the window. When I got up mother said, ‘here is Joe’s knife.’ I looked at it and said, ‘Yes, that is his knife, and one more thing that was his, his pipe and tobacco.’ “I will now give you what I saw when I came back from my traps on the 12th day of December, 1909 I left home in the morning about 9 o’clock, or 9:30, and returned about 3:30 p. m. As I was coming up the east road I saw father out at the barn. He was cleaning out the barn. When I came up he came out to the road to meet me. I had a rabbit in one hand and he said, ‘Give me the rabbit and I will clean it for dinner:* „ > “I said, ‘Haven’t you had your dinner?’ He answered, ‘Your mother and Grace went down to Marlowe’s and there was no one to get dinner.’ He went to cleaning the rabbit and I went in the house, took off my coat and got some water to wash in.* He fetched the rabbit n and laid in on the table and told me to start a fire and cook it. i told him that I was too hungry to wait for the rabbit to be cooked, and I sat down to the table and ate what I could find. He went out to the barn again, but was not gone much more than five minutes and came in and sat down to read and soon £ot up and went <>ut. “He went out again and came back in a short time and seemed to bo worried about something. A that time I did not Think that anything had happened, I got through eating I went into the dining room. There the floor looked like it had beep scrubbed. I then saw blood spots on th « wa *L all over the papers on the writing desk and on the curtains in the cupboard and the carpet that had been in front of the desk was hanging on the fence, and it had been washed that day, for it was all wet. When mother washed this piece of carpet there was enough blood in it to color the water red. When I saw all this I did not say anything to him. but I got my coat and cap to go to Swanineton. J««t as I wa_

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ready to go he said. "There is your mother. 1 will go out and unhitch for them.” I thought he was getting dfighty good all at once, as I never saw him do that before. "When mother came in she asked what the water was doing on the floor. I told her father told me he had spilled some slop on the floor, and had mopped it up. Then she asked,. Where is Joe?’ 1 said thatT did not know, and when father came in she asked him where Joe was. He said that he had walked to Fowler to catch the 2:30 train for Chicago. I thought it rather strange that Joe left so suddenly without saying anything about leaving. "Father had niacin all. arrangements to butcher on Monday and he had spoken« to Willie Bazemore to help. I was so scared that evening that I told the folks I would go down and get Billy to come up and stay all night. 1 went out to the barn to get the horses, and I saw blood on the manger and on the first stall "Monday, when we were butchering, father would often say he just loved to work in blood, and on Monday evening mother and I went to Fowler and we got to talking about Joe. We both thought he had killed him. Father sent for a new spade, as I had broken the handle out of the spade while I was digging out some skunks on Sunday. When father went out to unhitch I happened to see the single-barreled shotgun standing by the cupboard and I stuck my finger in the end of the barrel and moist smoKe or powder came off of my finger.

"I broke the gun open and found an empty shell in it. —Mother told me I had better not say anything about the matter or I would get what Kemper got. “She thought I had better go? away and not be around to quarrel with father. Mother., told me she believed Kemper never left the farm alive, but she wouldn’t say where she thought he was.”

POOLE CONFESSES.

But Accident Theory Is Upset By Examination of Skull. From the Benton Review we copy the prominent features of the John W. Poole murder case, not covered elsewhere, together with Poole’s statement or confession of the killing: Poole’s story as told to the Review is as follows: The killing took place December 12, 1909. After Kemper returned from his trapping expedition and Mrs; Poole and daughter Grace had'gone from the house Kemper took a rifle and went put toward the orchard hunting rabbits. Poole was sitting in the house reading when Kemper came in and told him he had a rabbit under a pile of poles and asked Poole to get the shotgun and come out and help him kill It. The rabbit ran through the barn lot and Kemper jumped over the fence In pursuit. Poole attempted to follow him and as ha was getting over, the fence the gun he was carrying was discharged and the load of shot struck Kemper in the hack of the head. Poole says Kemper was about six feet in front of him and as the charge from the 12-gauge gun struck him and split his skull he fell backward without a moan. “My God how he bled,” said Poole. “It was terrible.” Poole says he realized In a minute what he had done and he was never so scared in his life. This was at 11 o’clock a. m., •on December 12, 1909. According to his story his first inclination was to run to a neighbors for assistance. In fact he says he did start. Then he saw the hogs approaching the tody of Kemper and he returned to remove it to a place of safety. He then remembered that it was against the law for one to touch or remove a body under such circumstances until it had been viewed by the coroner, and this added to his fright. He then placed the body in the haymow over the cattle barn and covered it up. The longer he delayed notifying anyone of the killing the more he dreaded doing so, and he decided to wait until the following day. He kept putting it off until the body had lain in the hay mow a week. He then decided to bury it and say nothing about it. While he had no peace of mind day or night he felt that he was justified in thus disposing of the corpse as the death was purely accidental and his conscience did not troufile him. He had committed no crlmfe. ” '

He removed the clothing from the body of the dead man with the intention ol finding Kemper’s brother and giving the clothing to him. One evening about five o’clock he was going to the stack east of the house to get a load of straw. He placed the naked corpse on his wagon and took it with him. When he arrived in the field he dug a hole in which to place the t>ody, using an axe and a spade as the ground was frozen hard. Whilts the corpse lay in the hay mow it had frozen! stiff and as the digging was very laborious he decided to cut the body up so that it would go into a smaller hole. In accordance with this idea he took the axe and hacked the legs, the left arm and the head from the jtorso. Dumping the pieces into , the hole

which he had prepared he covered them with about two feet of earth and returned to the house. “i never quarreled with Kemper in my life," said Poole. "I thought as much of him as any man I -ever had around. He was always good to the members of the family and when he went to town he used to bring candy to my little boy.” At this jK)int Poole broke down and wept. Poole insisted that he put nothing in the hole with th% body, but when the searching party unearthed the remains, the stomach, entrials and other offal of hogs, together with the head of a dog. were found on top of the body. Four hogs were butchered the day following Kemper’s disappearance and Poole says this was buried three or four days after the butchering. He refused to make any definite statement.'as to just where he buried the body and this strengthens the suspicion that possibly there may be other bodies buried on the farm. Poole seems to be taking his trouble very and sleeps well and eats hearty meals.

The body of Kemper was buried in the Fowler cemetery Tuesday afternoon and it is probable that his relatives will never hear of his death. Poole picked Kemper up in the vicinity of Fair Oaks, ind.. In the year 1907, and brought him to Benton county to work on the farm. A great many people have visited the Poole farm since the startling disclosure and scores of pictures have been taken. The members of the family are not given a minute’s peace and they have practically refused to discuss the matter with visitors. The coroner’s inquest was to have commenced Tuesday afternoon but numerous delays were encountered and nothing was done until late in the afternoon when Grace Poole was placed on the stand. A few questions were propounded and the hearing continued until Thursday morning. Much of the delay was occasioned by the attitude assumed by Atty. Barce who was representing Poole. He insisted that if the prosecution was to have a prominent part In the coroner’s Inquest then the defendant was also entitled to representation and much haggling over this question ensued. A startling feature of the case this morning was the fact that Atty. Barce withdrew from the case. It is said that Poole wished to retain him hut had no money and Mrs. Poole refused to make the necessary arrangements to furnish the funds. Mrs. Haas was in favor of placing C. R. Milford in charge and in this she was encouraged by her mother, but at noon today (Thursday) Poole is without counsel, and it Is uncertain just what will be done. i

A theory that Poole killed Kemper with an axe instead of a shotgun is gaining ground. This would refute Poole’s own confession, and tbe theory of his son that shotgun \ was used.- Undertaker Knickerbocker is positive! in his assertion that the wound was not inflicted by a load of shot. In this he is sustained by coroner LeSage and A. E. Courtright who for many years was engaged in tbe undertaking business. There can scarcely be any doubt that Kemper was killed in the dining room of the Poole home. The blood spattered walls, the blood spots on papers protruding from the writing desk and the carpet saturated with gore in front of the desk would indicate that Poole and Kemper were seated near the desk, probably arguing the matter of wages due Kemper. That Kemper was killed from behind there can be no doubt. It is a plausible theory that Poole told the man he would go upstairs and get the money for him. The shotgun was standing in the stairway and while the Dutchman was still engaged at the desk -Poole may have stood behind him and fired the fatal shot.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Next Sabbath morning the subject will be “The Rent Veil.” In th evening Blaine Gwin will speak on “Some Problems of the City.” Monday evening at 7:30 the Brotherhood will meet. Everyone welco emto all of these services-., • —• — Job printing of the better clast type, ink and typography in harmony—The Democrat office

Subscribe for The Democrat. Henryville Postoffice Bums. Henryville, Ind., May 5. —F, H. Plank’s general store, in which the postoffice was located, was burned, the loss being $3,500, with, insurance, of $2,500. Child Drov-ns In Trench. Kokomo, Ind., May 6. —Forest Tyner, four years old, was drowned in the private trench leading to the unfinished King sewer.