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Show Robed Clansmen Shoot Victim In Cold Blood Details Of Slaying Told By Detective In Crowded Courtroom Trial Scene DETROIT, June 2 (U.R Charles A. Poole, 32-year-old ictim of the hood;d and robed Black Legion, was shot down as Ik; started to protest his innocence of wife beating charges and never had a chance to defend his conduct, a de- li-cfivc testified today at the exj aininpUoii of 14 men charged with the slaying. Detective Jack Harvill, homicide homi-cide ace who "cracked" the case against Detroit's vigilante night riders, recounted to a crowded courtroom how Poole was taken on a one-way ride the night of May 12 and shot down by two legionnaires as he stood facing seven members along a west side road. Itaseil On Confession Mis testimony was based, the detective said, on the alleged confession con-fession of Dayton Dean, "trigger man'' of the legion who fired two revolvers at Poole while the victim vic-tim stood a foot or two away. Dean's story implicated "Colonel" Harvey Davis, head of the Detroit legion, as the instigator of the slaying. At a legion meeting, Harvill testified Dean told him, "Colonel" Davis charged Poole with having administered a beating to his wife, an expectant mother. Legionnaires demanded that Poole be beaten up. Some screamed scream-ed for his life. Dean and two companions com-panions picked the unsuspecting victim up at a saloon, took him hack to the meeting place. There, the defective said he was told, a motor cavalcade drove Poole to his death. On a country road, Colonel Davis told his lieutenant: "Get. Poole out of the car, Dean." "Then Davis said "Poole, you've beaten your wife for the last time," Dean told the officer. "Dean explained that by this time he had started shooting," Harvill continued. "He told me he had shot six times and that Edwin Ed-win D. Lee, another defendant, had shot three times." After the shooting, the seven legionnaires who had attended returned re-turned to town in two automobiles, automo-biles, leaving the body in the (lit eh. Dean said he took the guns to Edison lake whore he tossed them in. |
