Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 3, 11 November 1911 — Page 8

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THE BICHMOJTD PALLADIUM ASD SUX-TELEGRAM, SATCRDAT NOVEMBER 11, 1911.

POOLE MURDER CASE TO BEGINMOHDAY Loyal Daughter Strives to Save Father from Paying Death Penalty. LAFAYETTE, lnd., Nov. 11. Not for many years has a murder trial caused so great a sensation and attracted such general interest in this section of the state as the trial to begin here in Tippecanoe circuit court next Monday, of John W. Poole, a prosperous Benton county farmer, who Is charged with having murdered Joseph Kemper, one of his German farm hands, in December, 1909. It is not morbid curiosity alone or a desire to have an opportunity to listen to the revolting details of a brutal crime that cause this general interest. The feature which more than any appeals to the heart and sympathy of the people Is the brave fight which Grace Poole, the daughter of the accused man, is making to save her father from the gallows. Grace Poole, alone of all the members of the Poole family faithfully

stands by her father and, out of her meager earnings as teacher In the

rVheatfield public school, defrays the

cost of defending her father in the doming trial. Poole's wife and his other daughter have turned against him and have absolutely refused to contribute to the fund for Poole's defense. Ills son, Emory Poole, who has been the prime accuser of his father and has left literally no stone unturned to Iflnd evidence against the old man, continues to maintain his attitude of 'extreme hostility and has openly declared that he would not rest until his lather had been hanged. John W. Poole was one of the most substantial men in Benton county. He owned several prosperous farms but, owing to some financial trouble a few "years ago, he transferred the title to his property to his wife. Joseph Kemper, with whose murder Poole is charged, worked for Poole during the summer and fall of 1909. Ife was laBt seen alive on December 10, or 12, 1909 and since then every trace of him was lost. It was supposed that he had left the farm to find work in the lumber camps of Michigan. Nobody suspected that Kemper had been murdered, until Poole's son, Emory, Informed the authorities of his belief that his father had killed Kemper and burled his body somewhere ou the "farm. The elder Poole was arrested on March 18, 1911 and charged with the murder of Kemper, but he was discharged on the same day, because there was absolutely no evidence against him at that time beyond the mere accusation of Emory Poole. Young Poole, apparently convinced that his suspicion was well founded and determined to find the necessary proofs for the guilt of hlB father, continued to search for Kemper's body, exploring every part of the grounds with that object In view. His perseverance was apparently rewarded. In the middle of a big corn field, about half a mile from the Poole homestead, young Poole found the decomposed reimalns of a human body, mingled with the remains of a hog's carcass. He notified the authorities and, although 'the remains of the human body were far beyond identification, insisted upon the charge that the body was that of Joseph Kemper, whom, he accused ibis father, of having murdered. John W. Poole was again arrested hd brought to Fowler, Indiana, where ibe was arraigned before Justice L. B. Stephenson on May 4 last. The charge was preferred by Emory Poole who submitted practically all the evidence. Poole pleaded not guilty and "was held to the grand jury without ibail on a charge of murder. In due course of time he was indicted and his trial was set for next Monday. Although Poole continued to maintain his innocence of having committed intentional murder, he Is said to ibave confessed that he accidentally shot and killed Kemper and then buried his body for fear of the consequences of his deed. Poole, it is said, claims that while he climbed over the fence of his orchard to hunt rabbits, bis shotgun was accidentally discharged and the full load struck Kerniper in the head at close range, killing blm Instantly. Elmore Barce has been engaged to defend Poole and it is believed that he will make a plea of insanity for his .client. Fifteen years ago Poole was tried for having tried to shoot a man named Quigley. The jury decided, however, that Poole was insane and be was sent to an asylum in Indianapolis, where he remained several years. Grace Poole, the prisoner's younger daughter, came near losing her position as teacher in the Wheatfield publie school where she has been doing good work for several years. Many of the parents objected to her because ber father had been accused of murder, but the brave girl called a meeting of the parents and won their sympathy and support when she explained to them it would be impossible for ber to help her father should she be deprived of her position.

DETECTIVES MOT ALWAYS ANALYSTS, SAYS POE

"Murders in the Rue Morgue" Furnishes Critical Commentary on Modern Police Methods Women Want to Look Pretty When Dead.

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BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE Burns has settled it. That is the Knabe murder mystery in Indianapolis. Dropping casually into Indianapolis the other day on purely private busiess that had absolutely nothing to do with the McNamara case he permitted himself to be interviewed about th probable reasons for the finding of Dr.

Knabe's bodv in her flat with her !

throat cut from ear to car. It was, without doubt suicide, says Burns. Because, you know, and there fore as f said, and all signs point, etc., and nobody ever does that way, because, as I have just remarked and it would be impossible that, and it clearly shows, BUT. do not mistake me, I am just talking, because you asked me to and while I like to talk still I do not care to unless I get played up on the front page in the headlines. Understand it was suicide because I think it was, the evidence plainly demonstrating, and as f before said, therefore This is about as near as they get to it. The fact is that nobody knows anything, as one paper says, except that Dr. Knabe is dead. What would you do if you were to walk into a room and find somebody, who you supposed as alive as yourself, stretched prone and dead? You may Fay you'd do so and so, but the truth is you don't know what you'd do. There aren't any hard and fast rules In an authorized manuel as to the manner in which you must conduct yourself in cases of suicide or murder. But you might think so the way some of the exalted intellects over in Indianapolis talk. According to them it should read something like this Rule I. Carefully examine the premises and decide whether it is murder or suicide. f II. After concluding definitely pursue either the two following courses: a. If suicide quietly inform the lady's friends, straighten your hair and be ready for anything. b. If murder, run, to the windows, going to each in turn, lean as far out as you can, without taking your feet off the floor, and scream so they can hear you at the corner. It would not be advisable to scream above c as this might disturb the people in the next block who are giving a party. c. After screaming thoroughly, rinse through two waters, stir lightly with a fork and call the police. d. If, when they arrive, they decide it is neither murder or suicide, do not say that you have hidden the knife in the garbage-can. This might annoy them an4 would violate the ordinance recorded in volume eight, on page 296, of the Amalgamated Statutes of the Municipal Union, annotated by all exmayors and by the president of the Associated Order of United Detectives which reads "Do not speak to a policeman when he's thinking. It is dangerous." For anyone to say what he or she

would do under any condition or com- j bination of circumstances is to take I

on the attributes of omnipotence. For there's no surer thing in this world than that the thing you say you'd do is the very thing you would not. This not only holds good in murder, suicide and sudden death, but in proposals of marriage, after dinner speeches, addresses before Chautauquas and teachers' examinations. And this brings round the state

ment that Chautauquas and detectives j

have some strange affinity, two Chautauqua near-stars having stated recently to the writer that they had previously been detectives. While this may seem anomalous and indeed almost unbelievable, it is not as far removed from plausibility as it would seem at first blush. For it

would take that acumen most remark-1 ably absent in many representatives of a profession in which it is supposedly a superlative asset, to root round and find out exactly what it is a Chautauqua audience wants and then give it ; to them. One of the brilliant theories put ' forth for the suicide plea is that Dr. Knabe owed several hundred dollars and was depressed. Therefore Ehe cut her throat after first neatly removing all traces of having done so. If everybody who owed a few hundred dollars were to commit suicide, the population would reach that low plane where it could only be augmented by the anti-race suicide propaganda. Everybody's in debt. If you don't believe it, ask the Merchants' Association. Only first be sure that you're without sin yourself, or they might pull the rate-book on you. When women commit suicide, however, they rarely resort to methods which disfigure them. They generally use some sort of poison "administered internally," and which does not distort the features. Almost invariably they are well and becomingly dressed and have prepared the final shuffling off with an eye to the effect they will cut later.

Woman's vanity is dominant to the bitterest end. They don't look pretty when their throats are cut and they know it. Besides it hurts. Women shrink from pain. Not so much so, perhaps, as men.' But enough to want to seek the least disturbing medium of translation. Nothing is stupider than the ordinary detective and his accepted deductions. In the introduction to the famous tale, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Poe says, in his discussion of the power of analysis in contradistinction to those of calculation and ingenuity "As the strong man exults in his physical ability, so glories the analyst

"Human Omnipotence." You will be i sure of a hearty welcome. J First Baptist Church H. Robert t Smith, Pastor. Preaching by the pas- ; tor at 10:40 a. m., and at 7:30 p. m. ' Sunday school at 9:15 a. m. Brotherhood at 2:30 p. m. B. L. P. U. at 6:30 p. m. Salvation Army Rhoda Temple, 515 N. A street. Ensing and Mrs. Deu- , ter officers in charge of the local

in that moral activity which disen- corPS. Services Tuesday, Thursday and tangles. His results, brought about by Saturday at 8 p. m. Sunday 7:30 p. m. the very soul and essence of method. Sunday school 10:30 a. m. Officers reshave, in truth, the whole air of intui-' idenee 245 South Third street, tion. Yet to calculate is j Reid Memorial Sabbath school at not to analyze. A chess player, for): 15 a. m. World's Temperance day. example, does the one without effort I Special services in the Sabbath school, at the other. j Annual Thanksgiving service 10:30 a. "The analytical power should not be : m. Sermon by the pastor. Christian confounded with simple ingenuity; for j Union 6:45 p. m. Evening service by

while the analyst is necessarily in

genious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis. The constructive or combining power, by which ingenuity is usually manifested, and to which the phrenologists (I believe erroneously) have assigned a separate organ, supposing it a primi-

Rev. Lightbourn of the Episcopal

church. South Eighth Street Friends Bible school 9:10. Meeting for worship 10:30. Dr. David W. Dennis will be present. Christian Endeavor meeting 6:30. Norman Penny of London, England,

will give an address at 8 p. m. on De-

tive faculty, has so frequently been j vonshire House, London, its History

seen in those whose intellect bordered

otherwise upon idiocy, as to have attracted general observation among writers on morals. "Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenius are always fanciful and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic." The testimony of the witnesses in Poe's grewsome story, sounds very much like the reports of the coroner's jury over at Indianapolis. For while the murders were finally found to have been committed by an ape, different witnesses each testified

and its Literary Treasurers, with stereopticon views. A cordial invitation is extended to all to be present. Midweek prayer meeting Thursday evening 7:30, followed by monthly meeting at 8 o'clock. Second English Lutheran Corner of Pearl and Third streets, E. Minter pastor. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. Subject, Lutheranism defined. Evening services at 7 o'clock. Sunday schcol at 9:15 a. m. Bible school at 9:15 a. m. Bible study and prayer meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. m. A cordial welcome to all. Christian Science Services (Masonic Temple). Subject, Mortals and Immortals. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Service at 10:45 a. m. Wednesday evening

testimonial services at 7:45 p. ra. Pub-

positively that the voice heard was ic invited. The reading room No. 10, that of a Spaniard, of a Frenchman, North Tenth street, open to the pub":

daily except Sunday, 9 a m. to 12 noon and 1:30 p. m. to 5:00 p. m.

of a German and of an Italian

"We must not judge of the means," said Dupin Poe's creation who finally discovered the murderer " by this shell of an examination. The Parisian police, so much extolled for acumen,

First M. E. Church Cor. E. Main and Fourteenth street, J. F. Radcliffe pastor. Sunday school 9:15 a. m. Preaching 10:30 and 7:50 p. m. Junior

church. Local meeting on Ministry and Oversight Sabbath afternoon at 2:30. Whitewater Monthly Meeting next Fifth-day morning at 9:30. North 14th Street Union Mission Frank E. Kinsey, pastor. Sunday School, 9:15. Morning service, 10:30. Revival services in the evening. Come and hear the Pastor Evangelist- Services to continue through the week ev

ery night at 7:30. t First Christian Church Corner Tenth and South A streets, Samuel j

W. Traum, minister. Bible school 9:05 a. m. There will be preaching service at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. L. E. Brown, evangelist, will speak. In the morning his subject is "The Inspiration of the Invisible," in the evening, "Wings of Silver, Feathers of Gold." At 3 p. m. he delivers an address at the Y. M. C. A. on the subject, "Saving the Sheep." Special music on Sunday morning by the Ladies Quartet; in the evening by the Chorus choir under the direction of Robert C. Wilson. There will also be meetings every night next week. United Brethren Eleventh and N.

B streets, H. S. James, pastor. Bible j

school at 9:30 a. m. A. D. Craig, superintendent. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. W. C. T. U. meeting at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. S. W. Traum will be the speaker. She was a delegate to the national convention at Milwaukee recently and will give a report of that meeting, Evangelistic services will be conducted at this church each evening this week except Saturday. You are cordially invited. Grace Methodist Episcopal Corner Tenth and North A streets, Arthur Cates, pastor. Sunday school 9:15. The pastor will preach at 10:30 and 7:30. Class meeting 11:45. Epworth League 6:30. A cordial welcome to all.

LETTER LIST

The following letters remain unclaimed at the local postoffice and will be sent to the Dead Letter office if not called for within two weeks. Ladies' List. Miss Delia B. Baldwin, Mrs. Chas. Bollenger, Mrs. C. A. Caldwell, Miss

Amelia Cole, Mrs. R. G. Conley, Mrs. J. G. DeVersey, Miss Emma T. Felbaum. Miss A. Gaither. Mrs. Harriett Griffin, Miss Emma Hall, Miss Eliza Hudson. Mrs. Rachel Jones, Mrs. John A. Kelley, Mrs. Nettie Kirkman. Mrs. Q. T. Lyons, Mrs. Rosella McMinn, Miss C. D. Moline, Miss Anna K. Morris, Mrs. Adda Parmer, Mrs. Marie Piper, Mrs. Chas. Riece, Miss Edith Role, Mrs. Sallie Snyder, Miss Rebecca Whitehead, Margaret Wright. Firms. The Bousher Mfg., Co,, Century Biscuit Co. Gentlemen's List. Edward Ackerman, B. G. Arthur, Henry Baker, W. S. Bittrich (2), D. C. Broomfleld, Arthur Brown, B. Brown,

Olie Brown, Chas. Bush, Jesse Catlin (3), Henry Clawson, J. M. Crennen,

In 293 B. C the Romans first divided the day into hours, when a sun dial was placed in the temple of Quirinus at Rome. In the ninth century the English king, Alfred, taught his subjects to measure the flight of time by candle three inches to burn an hour, and six candles to burn in twenty-four hours.

Albert Dankworth, Will Earler, C. E, Green, J. W. Hansen. H. P. Hart, Allen Huffman, Walter Hughes, H. C. Hunt, Geo. Ineischen. Sam Jacobson, Geo. Keller, Wm. Kemp, Thomas Knox, Frank Livingston, Ralph Meller, Amos MendenhalL Harry Miller, H. A. Miller, Steve Miller,. William Miller. Clad Newman. M. McLenna, Dr. Chas. Manstrem, Eli Millen. Frank Mook. Oscar Morgan, Henry Nichols, Wm. Nichols, L. E. Paxton, Carl Peirson. G. D. Reynolds, C. A. Richardson, C. F. Roberts. W. R. Robbins, P. M. Rogers, Win. A. Seifers. Frank Shafer, Frank Shaffer, Frank S. Skinner, Chas. D. Smith, Leroy Smith (2). A. S. Thornton. Augustus Witherspoon, H. F. Woessner (2). E. M. HAAS, P. M.

Men's mass meeting at Y. M. C. A. Sunday, 3 p. m. New York shows the greatest water power development of any of the states, due in a great measure to the harnessing of Niagara. The state has 6,513 wheels generating S85.S62 horse power..

Women's Secrets

There is one man in the United States who has perhaps heard more wosto'i secrets than any other man or woman in the country. These secrets are not secrets of guilt or shame, but the secrets of suffering, and they hare beea confided to Dr. R. V. Fierce in the hope and expectation of advice and help. That few of these women bave been disappointed in their expectations is proved by the fact that 98 per cent, of all women . treated by Dr. Pierce or his able staff, have been absolutely and altogether cured. Such a record would be remarkable if the cases treated were numbered by hundreds only. But when that record applies to the treatment of more than half-a-mil-lion women, in a practice of over 40 years, it is phenomenal.

and entitles Dr. Pierce to the gratitude accorded him by women, as the first of ' specialists in the treatment of women's diseases. Every sick woman may consult us by letter, absolutely without charge. All replies are mailed, sealed in perfectly plain envelopes, without any print ing or advertising whatever, upon them. Write without fear as without fee, to World's Dispensary Medical Association, Dr. R. V. Pierce, President. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. DR. PIERCE'S FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION TVTpl ess w omJbe. Women fltaroxxs;, iofa- Women Well,

are cunning, but no more. There is no j League 2:00 p. m. Epworth League method in their proceedings, beyond 1 6:30 p. m. The pastor has secured the method of the moment. They make ! Evangelist Kennedy and wife who

a vast parade of measures; but not un- j have been in the West for several j frequently, these are ill adapted to the j years. They are Methodist people and j objects proposed. The results attain-: feel they will do us good. Come and j ed by them are not infrequently sur- i meet them at the Sunday school. At j prising, but, for the most part, are night Mrs. Kennedy will speak in the brought about by simple diligence and ! Epworth League. Children's meetings activity. When these qualities are on Tuesday and Friday. Special song unavailing, their schemes fail. j books promised. Chorus choir will "Truth is not always in a well. In help with the music. Everybody wel-

fact as regards the more important come,

knowledge, I do not believe that she is invariably superficial." This might apply to the real as to the fictional case.

Sunday Services At the Churches

St. Paul's Episcopal Church Holy communion 7:30 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon 10:30. Sunday schcol 9:15. Evening prayer and address, 5:00. Holy comnniuion, Thursday, and all Holy days 9:30 a. m. Evening prayer and Litany, Friday, 4:30 p. m. St. Mary's Catholic Masses every Sunday at 6:00, 8:00 and 9:00 o'clock 10:30 a. m.; Vespers and sermons at 10:30 a. m.; Vespers and Benediction every Sunday at 3 p. m. Rev. J. F. Mattingly, rector. St. Andrew's Catholic Fifth and

First English Lutheran Church Corner 11th and South A. E. G. Howard, pastor. Morning worship, 10:30 a. m. Vesper service, 4:30 p. m. The Junior Chorus will have charge of the special music. Sunday School 9 a. m. Luther Day exercises in the interest of Home Missions in charge of special committee. V.'. H. and F. M. so-

1 ciety Thank Offering meeting Wed

nesday afternoon. Address by Mrs. Kate Boggs Shaffer, editor Lutheran Woman's Work. Second Presbyterian Rev. Thos. C. McNary, pastor. Revival meetings will begin Sunday. Morning theme: "The Gospel Fan and the Revival Ax," 10:. 10. Rev. I. W. Singer, D. D., Winona, will preach at 7:30. Mrs. I. W. Singer will sing. Public cordially invited and welcome to all services. Sunday School 9:25. Mr. C. A. Reigal, Supt. Earlham Heights Presbyterian S. S. 2 p. m. Preaching 3 p. m. East Main St. Friends' Meeting Truman C. Kenworthy, pastor. Bible

Cniith n ctrooc fnca nt 7-3(1- Hieh

,.c,o.i..Lwt Rrrnr,r,en and School at 9:10. A musical number

benediction at 3 o'clock. Rev. Frank be, rendered by a male quartet,

consisting or j. kj. hiii, . nuicuens,

A. Roell, rector. First Presbyterian Church Rev. Thos. J. Graham. Pastor. Sabbath school and Bible classes, Miss Ella W. Winchester, Supt Sabbath school Reception to parents Monday night, 7-9. Morning Sabbath Seance, 10:30; Vespers, 5 o'clock. Preaching by the pastor. Thursday evening Devotional hour, 7:30. The public is invited. West Richmond Friends... At Earlham College. Bible school at 9 a. m.,

E. P. Trueblood, Supt. Meet for worship at 10:30; Murray S. Kenworthy, pastor, Elbert Russell, college pastor. Junior Endeavor ai 2:15. Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. All the women of the congregation are invited to attend the reception at the home of Mrs. Howard Gluys, 420 College avenue, given by the Aid society Tuesday p. m. All interested are cordially invited to be present at every service. The Universalist Church If you are seeking a religion that makes full connection with daily life and practical affairs and which will help you get rid of worry, nervousness, anxiety and disease come to the services of the Universalist church at the Masonic Temple, second floor, Sunday evening, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p. m. The pastor. Rev. H. L. Haywood will preach on

Walter Luring and E. S. Mate. Meeting for worship at 10:30. Norman Penney, a distinguished friend from London, Eng., will attend the meeting for worship. Christian Edeavor at 6:30. The evening meeting is laid down on account of the Norman Penney lecture at South Eighth Street

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