Thomas Bell Poole

Thomas Bell Poole, (1818 - 1865) Under-sheriff of Monterey County, member of the Knights of the Golden Circle serving as a crewman of the Confederate privateer J. M. Chapman. He was later a leader of Captain Ingram's Partisan Rangers and was captured and tried for killing a Deputy Sheriff following the Bullion Bend Robbery. He was found guilty of murder and was hanged at Placerville, California on September 29th, 1865.