BENTON COUNTY, INDIANA
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5-07-1911 MURDER MYSTERY ON FARM IN INDIANA: FARMER CONFESSES AND SON FINDS BODY. John Poole & Emory Poole. Fowler, IN. has a murder mystery which may develop sensations. Joseph Kemper, a farm hand, disappeared last December. Elmer Poole, son of John Poole, wealthy farmer, found a dismembered body in a shallow grave on his father’s farm that proved to be Kemper’s. John Poole was arrested and confessed that he accidentally killed Kemper. He says he feared public sentiment and dismembered and buried the body. Search is being made for other bodies which some think may be on the farm. |
Fowler,
IN.
Feb.1,1898.
Lewis Atkinson, a juryman, was held up on his way home east of this
city at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Atkinson was in a buggy, and
overtook a man leading a horse. The man asked to ride, and when
Atkinson stopped the fellow shoved a revolver in his face and demanded
money. Atkinson hit him across the face with his whip, and his horse
lunged forward at the same time. The highwayman fired into the rear of
the top buggy, and the bullet barley missed Atkinson head. The robber’s
horse this morning was located in the livery barn at Oxford, ten miles
away, but the man is not to be found.
