Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1911 — NOTED CRIMINAL LAWYER [ARTICLE]

NOTED CRIMINAL LAWYER

May Assist In Defense of Poole, the Benton County Murderer. A Watseka (Ill.) paper states that Col. Free P. Morris, she well known criminal lawyer of that place; will probably be one of the attorneys for John Poole, the Benton county farmer now jn jail at Fowler on the dharge of murdering his farm hand. Joseph Kemper. Morris has been asked to assist in the defense, and will likely accept. Poole is taking his confinement philosophically and still maintains that the killing of Kemper was an accident. He is directing the management of his Benton county farm from the jail, his wife and daughter consulting him on all important matters. The unmarried daughter is making a hand on the farm, and the field in which Kemper’s body was found buried has been planted and all trace of the spot obliterated. . \ ' ‘>