Show 4 YER WAS AS IN SALT LAKE LAKEMan Man Held in Los Angeles for Dastardly Crime Served Time in Pen ROBBED DR HIGGINS HOME WALKED INTO PARLOR AND HELD UP YOUNG COUPLE Ernest Erae t G Stackpole charged with tn the mum of Joel in Los Angeles Thursday June H 14 was at one onetime onetime time a prisoner la In tile the Utah state penitentiary His alias was Harry Poole He was convicted of burglary in Salt Lake City Dee Dec 1 12 and sentenced to eight Years yearn con confinement He was pardoned May 31 l t 5 and left Salt Lake With h his father Durin During his bis confinement here he received letters from hIs father In Arl An Anzona zona sona Late in the fall of iMi Poole en entered entered the home hom of Dr Charles W Higgins V uee i p p L 4 e U I i C i I I I Ernest G Stackpole Prom a Photo taken in Utah State pr Prison of Salt Lake Lak He stole quietly into a parlor in which a daughter of Dr Hi Hig Higgins gins and aDd a young man were sitting Poole I had a handkerchief tied over the upper part of his face After robbing the young people of their money and jewelry the follow tellow b backed out of the room and He wa by the police and both Miss s HI Higgins and her companion fled the man He was 5 tried for robbery and received his sentence Nothing was heard of him after he left the penitentiary any ary until a week a ago o when Warden Ar Arthur Arthur thur Pratt read an account of the met mur murder der of Joel In Los Angeles Mrs was arrested and upon being questioned confes confessed ed to havin having a hand handIn In the murder In her confession site she as assorted sorted Ernest G Stackpole exerted a hyp hp Deputy Warden Andrew C Ure remembered remembered the name of Stackpole and upon looking through the i institutions files were convinced that this man was the fel fellow ci low who had served time Warden Pratt Makes Inquiry Warden Pratt then sent the following letter to Los Angeles To the Sheriff Los Angeles Cal Dear find photo and de description description of Harry Poole whose true name is Ernest G Stackpole Please Inform me jf If this Is the man who 1 was S Implicated in inthe inthe the murder of Mr Ir in Los Angeles a short time ago If he Is I will furnish you his criminal history The following message was received In answer a few days later Los Angeles Cal June 21 I Arthur Pratt Warden Utah State Prison Yours to sheriff given to me IDe Please send me by wire full tull criminal history or of Harry Barry Poole Seine Same Is Ernest Stackpole murderer of Joel W T H AUBLE Chief of Police Upon receipt of this communication Warden Pratt wired a detailed criminal history of the man Poole or Stackpole was a carpenter or waiter wlter b by occupation tion and was born In Pennsylvania He Heis Heis is rather a man He is about feet 7 inches tall has brown hair hairy gray y eyes round face firm Jaw slid and weighs about pounds He is r regarded as a clever cleYer and aDd dangerous criminal Be Before Before fore commencing operations In Salt Lake he served three years in the San penitentiary In California where he was convicted of burglary His escapade in Salt Lake marked him as a cool nervy burglar Entering a house whose seen ants he be knew w were re awake by the lights horning in the different rooms making his entrance into Imo a parlor calmly asking the occupants to hand band over any trinkets they had on t em and then succeeding In getting out bf the house and neighbor neighborhood hood without being caught Is a stunt few In the ancient and feared union of burglars care to perform Shot Sleeping Man ManThe ManThe The murder of Joel In Los An Angeles Angeles geles probably will be the last crime Stackpole wilt will commit Mrs broke down under severe and admitted that she be and Stackpole had been Intimate The couple planned to kill ki take the ln insurance orance money on his life liCe OO and aM leave for tor some distant place where they could live together On Thurs Thur day daJ morning June H 14 at 2 Mrs opened the door of her home and Stackpole entered He re reached the bed bedroom bedroom room and shot who was through the heart and head While rhUe the details of Mrs r confession ion have not been made public this much is known It is believed that the first bullet did not perform its mission quickly enough to suit and another was sent crashing through the head of the sleep ing man The detectives do not DOt believe Mrs was in her husbands bed bedroom bedroom room while the awful deed was being done but remained in the kitchen where she had gone to admit Stackpole es e sages received from Los Angeles Angel sa say has baa made no confessions H win Will be charged with murder and Mrs Ira with being his accomplice Says She Was Hypnotized Mrs attended the funeral of her husband In Los Angeles Monday June JuneIs Is 18 She Is quoted as saying afterwards I 1 tell you I was AS hypnotized I did not realize what a terrible tragedy was being enacted until I awoke this morning I never of my own free will would have consented to my husbands husband death Ernest exerted a peculiar influence over me At times I seemed dazed and uncertain of my own Identity He talkea to me In such a way that I believed every word he said and aDd looked forward to a life Ure of happiness with him Yesterday when I went to the cemetery and saw w the remains of my husband beIng lowered into the grave a shock came over me and I seemed to begin to realize what an awful act was committed I lont dont care ar arnow noW what happens I know now JIOW that I 1 Iwas was Wag influenced by the man who Is now w In jail with murder |