Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1911 — POOLE TRIAL CLOSED. [ARTICLE]

POOLE TRIAL CLOSED.

And Case Went to Jury Yesterday—Argument Lasted 3 Days. Argument of attorneys in the Poole murder case was begun Monday morning and it was expected would be completed yesterday forenoon and the case given to the jury yesterday afternoon. The opening argument was made by Prosecutor Frank Kimmel, who said Poole's kind of insanity was “accommodation” insanity, a kind of insanity which he feigned to escape punishment for a henious crime. Prosecutor Kimmel read much of the evidence to the jury and also used exhibits to emphasize his points. Kimmel demanded the death penalty for Poole. wife and daughter Grace and his young son Russell, were present during the argument. Mrs.* Poole was declared to be “hostile” to her husband, by Elmore Barce, the defendant’s attorney, in his argument Thursday. Barce made the statement in explaining why the defense had not placed Mrs. Poole on the witness stand in behalf of her husband. He said Mrs. Poole had given no assistance to the defense throughout the trial, , “1 his girl,” he said, to Grace Poole, “is standing alone, without her mother’s help in this fight to save her father’s life,” Barco challenged the state to explain why they had not put Emory Poole on the stand to testify as to his father’s condition./ “They dare not do it, because they know that this boy knows his father to be insane and that a cross-examination would have brought this out plainly,” he said. Barce further said that Poole’s insanity had been proven beyond all doubt. He told the jury to disregard the testimony of Emory Poole because, he said, the boy was as insane as his father, and had shown his bitterness and malice. Barce expected to close late in the afternoon.” •