Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-05-04 | Page 8 | Children Testify Against Father

oc CHILDREN TESTIFY AGAINST FATHER FOWLER. Ind , May 3. Although she said she believed her father John Poole Innocent of the charge against him of murdorlng Joseph Kemper, Grace Poole, as a witness at the coroner's cor-oner's Inquest today said 'she had seen blood stains on tho walls of the kitchen of the Poolo home the day 1 after the disappearance of Kemper In December, 1909 She came from Chicago, where she has been a student In tho business college and was placed under bond of $1,000 as a witness for the state In the prosecution of her father. Her brother, Emory, who found the body of Kemper on the Poole farm, yesterday yester-day was held In $2,000 bond as a witness. wit-ness. Bonds were furnished for botii. Emory Poole will testify tomorrow. Poole was heavily guarded in the jail tonight because of public feeling against him. Ho maintained his Innocence Inno-cence and hold steadily to his statement state-ment In which he said he shot Kemper Kem-per accidentally while hunting and later cut up his body and burled it because he feared public sentiment, as he shot a neighbor a few years ago. Emory Poolo In a statement said he had accused his father of Kemper's murder because he feared the older Poole wquld murder his mother, his sister and himself. He said his father had told him he owed Kemper $90 for work on the farm and that his father had threatened Kemper with violence. He added he would testify at the Inquest tomorrow that ho had seen his father knock down men employed on tho farm. nn