Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — POOLE IN LAFAYETTE JAIL [ARTICLE]

POOLE IN LAFAYETTE JAIL

Says He Killed Kemper Accidently and Expects Acquittal.

Lafayette, Ind., June 21.—John W. Poole, indicted for the murder, of Joseph Kemper in Benton county’s most famous murder case, was brought to Lafayette this afternoon and placed in the Tippecanoe county jail. Judge Saunderson, of Benton county, granted a change of venue after Poole had been indjeted for murder in the first degree, and the case was sent to this county for trial. The Benton county authorities thought it would be safer to take Poole from the jail there at once. Poole was brought without handcuffs and locked up in the corrider oh the state side of the jail. He said he was ready for trial and expected to be acquitted, The only one against him, he said, was his son Emery and the boy has no reason to be fighting him. he reasserted that he "killed Joseph Kemper accidentally. The Tippecanoe county circuit court meets September 25, and Poole must remain in jail here until next fall. He is a model prisoner, and will be given the liberty of the jail.