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GUILTY OF MURDER

MEMBERS OF “HUM LEGION" Praea Association —By Telegraph—Copyright DETROIT, September 29. All except one of 12 men tried for the Black Legion killing of Charles Poole were found guilty of murder today,' seven in the first degree, for which life sentence is mandatory, and four in the second degree, the sentence for which may be any term, including life imprisonment. [A previous message read as follows: —The police to-day exposed a strange masked organisation known as the “ Black Legion,” the leaders of which are charged with practising ritual murder. On May 13 the body of Charles Poole, a young worker on a Federal relief project, was found shot near a suburban road. According to the police, some' members of the Black Legion have admitted that he was killed because of the ill-treatment of his wife while she was an expectant mother. The organisation apparently follows the principles of the Ku Klus Klan, attempting to enforce morality through vigilante tactics. To-day Poole’s widow denies the allegations that he beat her.]

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Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 11

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GUILTY OF MURDER Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 11

GUILTY OF MURDER Evening Star, Issue 22458, 1 October 1936, Page 11

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