The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
RosroD,s Roy EIend.

boston IA again sS@ited- sEsl--l isie-
time over n crime of no small maguI-
fude. It is one of those terrible cases
of Juvenile depravity, murder and fen
dish brutality which causes an invol
untary feeling of horror throughout
the community Connected with the
tragedy and its author are numerous
other startling crimes and circumstan
ces, which add to the case an interest
more than usually painfully and re
voting. The story Is that of the muir
der Of fen year old girl by an eigh-
teen year old boy, the young prisoner
beiBg none other than young Pome-
roy who was already under indictment
for the murder of 4 small hoy last
spring, and who had previously done
service in a reformatory institution for
T crnelties practised upon other boys 4
! or ) years since The history of this
/ boy il a strange one, and reads much
more like fiction than the sober truth.
/ He first came to public notice during
/ the summer Of 1872, when he tortured
/ and mutilated some eight or ten little
boys in the most shocking manner, and
it was only after half the police force
was put on his track that he was de
tected and committed to the House of
Refuge and Correction.
! His mother, Mrs. IL. II. Pomeroy, n
res spectacle widow, for a number Of
years kept a millinery aud notion storA
in Broadway, South Boston, and had
managed to give her son very respec
table education. The boy himself, who
is now sixteen wears of age, is rather
remarkable in his appearance. He has
a pleasing and intelligent countenanee,
| while his right eye Is very prominent,
and of a CLASSY, milky color. from
which circumstance the victims OF his
torture in 1872 described him az a
large boy with white eye. His crimes
were of remarkably morbid charac-
ter. He would, in 1872, go into the
suburban streets of the city carrying a
small package, and, upon meeting a
we'll dressed boy Of five or six years.
give him a sum of money to carry the
package to a given point. generally in
/ some unfrequentea lane or wood. The
I Pomeroy himself would reach the same
point by different route in advance OF
/ his victim, and as soon as the boy
would reach the place the young fiend
would seize and strip him, tie him TO
a tree or telegraph pole. and begin to
torture him Systematically. Sometimes
he would cash his victim with a knife,
and leave him fainting from loss of
blood, to be found hours afterwards by
some accidental passers. At other
times he would be prepared with pa
pers of needles of various sizes, fire.
quently driving them into the bone.
Then again he would vary this system
Of torture by taking a heavy leather
thong and Sitting it improvise a cat O.
nine tails, with which he would exec
riate his captive.
Torture seemed to be his sole objed
and his victims said that he was in the
habit of laughing and dancing with de
light while administering it. Young
Pomeroy when asked if he regarded
himself as an Indian, replied that he
was a good deal better Indian than
King Phillip or any of his warriors.
After being detected, he confessed to
all his crimes, and was sentenced TO
years confinement in the House of Re
fuge and Correction. lie did not chafe
against the restraints imposed upon
him, but submitted TO them checrfuIly,
acknowledging the justice OF his pun
ishment. and apparently trying to atone
for his revolving crimes. He was pen
itent aud tractable, and the result was
that in less than eighteen months he
was pardoned out of the Refuge.
His morbid nature had evidently un-
dergone change during bis imprison-
ment, from torture to murder, although
he had skillfulIy concealed his feelings
that he deceived his keepers and the