Caldwell County Louisiana Archives News.....Pool Held Without Bond. October 10, 1913
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The Caldwell Watchman October 10, 1913
The Caldwell Watchman.
Columbia, La.
October 10, 1913
Page 9, Column 2

Pool Held Without Bond.

The preliminary trial of Dittimus Pool, charged with killing Monroe Warner of 
the Second Ward of this parish, was heard Saturday by Judge George Wear of the 
Thirtieth Judicial Court.  The courtroom was crowded and special deputies were 
sworn in to preserve order.  District Attorney Richey placed B. F. Howe and E. 
W. Radford on the stand.  Both swore to having heard Pool say the Monday 
before the killing took place that he knew that Warner had been told several 
things that he had said about him, but that Warner had never tackled him about 
any of them.  Witness Radford went so far as to say that Pool had said in 
substance that he would "get" Warner if he ever got the law on his side.

Both of these witnesses were within 150 years of the scene when the shooting 
took place, both heard Pool and Warner talking and the shot fired, and were 
among the first to reach Warner's body after he was shot.  They testified to 
the fact that they found Warner in a dying condition, and that he was lying 
upon his back with a hunting horn clasped in his right hand, and that his left 
hand was shot through the fingers, showing that he could not have been in the 
act of drawing a weapon when shot.  The bridle which was worn by Warner's 
horse on the morning of the killing was produced in court, identified and 
offered in evidence.  Its reins were puntured by bullet holes.

The only eyewitness to the deed was a little negro girl about six or seven 
years old.  She said that she heard Warner curse Pool, and that she saw Pool 
shoot Warner.  Other witnesses testified that Warner was unarmed when he was 
shot.  The case was submitted without argument on either side, and the court 
immediately gave a decision refusing bail to the prisoner, remanding him to 
jail, and referring the case to the grand jury for action atits next sitting 
here in December.

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