Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — POOLE’S INSANITY RECORD. [ARTICLE]

POOLE’S INSANITY RECORD.

In commenting on the John W. Poole murder case, the Benton Review says: “John W. Poole was sent to the Insane Asylum in 1883. He hnd been found to be insane by Drs. Mavity and Wells and Squires Long and Matchett. He was released on parole. During this interval a judgment rendered fourteen years before for $35 in favor of John Quigley was collectable. The day that Mr. Quigley got his money, Poole concealed himself under a bridge and shot Quigley in the head as he approached, took the amount of the judgment and a sum besides and left Mr. Quigley for dead. There was snow on the ground at the time and he told his hired hand to walk in his tracks. For this act Judge Thompson returned him to the asylum, fromjwhich place he afterward escaped disguised as a nurse. On the books, at the present time he appears as having been discharged. As far as we know he has never been refused the right to vote when he was in the county.”