The Archive · 1936

Terrorist Pleads Guilty

Detroit, June 29, So-called' "executlonyroristic Black Legion organization, to-day pleaded guilty to the Kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Poole, a Works Progress Administrations" employee, whose bullet riddled body was found In a ditch near Dearborn, Mich., several Joseph Moynihan accepted the plea and referred the ease to the probation department. Fifteen other alleged members of the Black Legion are (stil awaiting trial for complicity in the murder of Pool Meanwhile, police were investigat-tug the slaying in a hoist of a Mrs, Castle, 25-year-old night-club hostess and a'divorces. Her unknown killer scrawled the words "Black Legion" across the mirror of her tel room tipestick.

Mrs. Castle's son, James, seven years old, was awakened at midnight and saw 'a masked killer beating Ais mother's head with brick, "However, believing what he saw to be a night= mare, he went to sleep again—United Press.

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