The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-06-29
CARNIVAL ATTACHE KILLED BY
POLICEMAN; OFFICER WOUNDED

the witnesses ana coroner II. w.
Pence was in charge of the inquest.
w. E. Pratt, general manager of
the Seaplane outfit with which Poole
was connected, told of conversation
he had with Poole short time be-
fore, in connection with Poole's "step-
ping out" with married women. Poole
said he understood that Middleton
! was carrying cannon for him."
DR.. T. N. Yeomans told Of being
called to the scene of the shooting and
of an operation performed in hopes
of saving Poole's life.
who was in the room with Poole at
the hotel, testified that she together
with her sister, Miss Nellie Sprague,
had met Poole and Jesse Gibson, an
other sea plane outfit employe, at the
baseball diamond, and that they had
hired a taxi and gone to the West
hotel, where she and Poole secured
room under the name of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. D. Poole, and Gibson and Miss
Sprague also registered as man and
wife. About 4 a. m. Mrs. Middleton
testified, they heard a rap on the door.
She got up and started dressing, she
said, and Poole slipped on his troosers,
picked up the gun and started toward
the door. AS soon as the door was
opened, the shooting commenced. The
witness testified that she thought it
was Poole who fired the first shot,
and estimated that three or four shots
were fired No shots were fired after
Poole was hit, she thought. When
Poole was hit, he reeled and fell to the
floor. When the first shot was fired,
Mrs. Middleton said she cried, "Honey.
don't shoot"
She helped Poole onto the bed after
he fell to the floor, and she said that
he murmured something which she
could not understand. The policeman
was placed on a bed across the hall by
another policeman. Mrs. Middleton had
been "out" with Poole before she said,
and had told him that she did not
want to live with her husband. Poole
asked her, she said, what her husband
would do if he found them together,
and she replied that she did not know.
Testifying regarding what the Off
GER said when he raped on the door,
Mrs. Middleton said that she thought
he asked them if they were from the
carnival company. She thought at
first perhaps it was her husband, she
said. The policeman said "don't
Shoot" the witness said, after the
first shot was fired, and then another
shot was fired, and the police said
"dont shoot" again. Mrs. Middleton
was not very clear in her memory Of
what the officer said when he raped
on the door.
Miss Sprague Testifes
Miss Nellie Sprague, her sister, COR
roborated her sisters testimony re-
garding meeting the two men at the
ball park, and going to the hotel,
where they all registered. She testi-
fled that she did not know anything
about the shooting until the police
man who arrested them, told them
about it.
Jesse Gibson, "buddy" of the dead
man, as he termed it., told of meeting
the women at the park, and of going
to the hotel, and also told Of an argu-
ment which he had with Poole before
leaving the carnival grounds, about
Poole carrying the pistol along with
him. Poole seemed to think, Gibson
testified, that ''there was something
wrong" and he didn't "want to take
any chance on getting bumped off by
this woman's husband"
Jay Sharar, the officer, has been on
the force for about a month and a
half. He comes from the Sawyer
country and has shown conclusively
that he is made Of the right kind of
stuff.
Sharar will be out of the hospital
in week or two. In order to get the
bullet out of his leg, it was necessary
for surgeons to chisel away quite
portion of the bone, where the bullet
had lodged