BLACK LEGION MURDER
ELEVEN MEN GUILTY LIFE TERMS IN GAOL DETROIT, Sept. 29. All except one of the 12 men tried for the Black Legion killing of Charles Poole were found’ guilty of murder today, seven in the first- degree, for which a life sentence is mandatory, and four in tlie second degree, the sentence for which there may be any term, including life imprisonment. A message received on May 24 stated that the Detroit police had' exposed a strange masked organisation known as the “Black Legion.” the leaders ot which were 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 admitted that he was killed because of the ill-treatment of his wife while she was an expectant mother. The organisation apparently followed the principles of the Ku Klux Klan, attempting to enforce morality through vigilante tactics. Poole’s widow denied the allegations that, he heat her.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19134, 1 October 1936, Page 5
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