The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-27

AT the last hOur OF grace, Governor
Capper slaughters appropriations.
Shunganunga at floodtide and started
west. He was captured on the Wash
burn college campus.
heard of Poole for fourteen years.
Quinton Heights people say he was a
good neighbor. He paid his debts and
was agreeable.
riches social position, and the head
of two families quartered in 'tswell''
apartments is a long road and it is a
more interesting course when it leads
through a state penitentiary on out
again and back into another Poole
could undoubtedly write some inter-
esting experiences.
The most recent chapter of Poole's
career comes from Kansas City and is
told as follows:
=. 4 1 E sssPs Chicken Thief
That's the way he could register if
he were not behind the bars under a
four years prison sentence. And just
try to imagine, please, the surprise it
was to the two good looking, fashion
his two South Side apartment homes
when Poole, the prosperous poultry
dealer" pleaded guilty to the charge
of stealing chickens last Monday
it was to numerous friends in the two
social circles in which he moved and
to business associates in the poultry
trade.
In September, 1904, he was arrest
ed at Lees Summit for stealing chick
ems, fined $3.50 and given six months
in Jail in Kansas City.
1t was as w. T. Young that this ex-
traordinary hen litter served a term
in the Lansing, Kan, state prison in
1909 for stealing chickens.
Loved Pretty Women.
After which he presumably re-
formed and became A. F. Poole, sales
man for a. large poultry firm. And as
such he was known favorably in Kan
sas City.
A. F. Poole was a man of tempera-
ment. He loved beautiful women and
supported two; he was fond of fine
City's South Side; he was musically
inclined and kept a player piano and
Victrola in each home; he enjoyed
riding in motor cars and had several;
he enjoyed society and moved in two
different South Side circles; he was
artistic and made commonplace oc-
like stealing chickens an art;
he was a model husband, neither US
ing liquors, tobacco in any form, or
profane language; he worShipped his
wives and they adOred him; he liked
to see them we'll dressed and wearing
and saw that they were
supplied with money to buy
them.
Poole posed as the representative of
a large poultry house at Wichita, KAN
His business kept him away from his
home about two weeks out of every
three. He presumably was travelling
for his firm. Commission men at the
market knew him in that role and
often bought large orders of chickens
from him. The orders always were
delivered promptly.
An Electric Burglar Alarm.
Poole might have gone on indef.-
nitely but for the foresight of FARM
er near Lees Summit This farmer
had a large number OF blooded ch1ck-
ems Other farmers in his vicinity
had been losing their chickens. so this
particular farmer equipped his chick
en- coop and his barn with an electric
burglar alarm.
awakened by the alarm ringing in his
bedroom. Catching up his shotgun
as he jumped from bed he ran to the
barnyard. He fired twice at a fleeing
figure who dropped a sack of his
choicest chickens. The farmer look
ed around in the moonlight and found
his dogs apparently asleep. Trey
had been drugged. He also found a
lightweight covered wagon with two
fast ponies harnessed to it, standing
in his driveway. The wagon con-
tanned six dozen sacked chickens, |
which were identified the next day
by ne1ghDOr1nS FARMERS.
The farmer was elated. He saved |
his chickens and was ahead a wagon |
and a good team. The burglar alarm !
justified it's installment. But the next
night it rang again. This time the
farmer toook his repeating rifle and !
started for the barn. He fired eight |
times at man who ran out of the !
barn door. The farmer aroused the |
and the men searched all |
night, but found no one. The chick |
en- thief had returned to steal his /
wa gon and team. A letter found in the |
wagon gave Poole's name and state /
was obtained for him. That /
was in November.
FoOle was WlndoW Shopping on
Grand avenue with a woman last Sat /
lrday afternoon when policeman I
touched him on the arm
A Shock.
1.-THE chief wants to see you for a
Ion us, will you not he said as he
bowed to the woman.
The man was at the prosecutors
office Monday morning. The woman /
vas with him. A half dozen farmers
rom Lees Summit were there also.
The man looked at the farmers. He
ooked at Michael O'Hearn, warrant
deputy. He looked at the warrant
He looked at the record a policeman
lcld in his hand. He gave one long
ng look at the woman
I'll plead guilty" he said. And
Judge Latshaw gave him four years
n the penitentiary-
Strongest and goes farthest-Devoe
1ead-and-Zinc Paint c. NJ. Hill &
son, S26 Kansas avenue.-Adv.