Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

of the water closet aud covered her up
with what ashes | could get. The knife
| used was one bought from the next
store, where they we're sold, the week be-
fore. The girl went down and stood, as
came up, with her face toward Broad
way. / went up quickly, put my left
hand and arm around her neck and COW
cred her mouth. With my right cut
her throat, and then, as | said, dragged
her back of the water closet. Then |
heard knocking at the door | had lock-
ed. / washed my hands and the knife,
and went up and opened the door and
let in my older brother Two girls
worked in the store for mother, but they
knew nothing of it. They usually got
there by s or 8 o'clock; it was before
they came it happened"
Chief Savage Why did you do it ?"
Pomeroy-"I did it TO see bow she
would act. The knife, perhaps forgot
to tell, washed with my hands, too, in
the water at the water closet"
The Chief asked how he came to do
it, and he replied, could not help it
| wanted to see how she would act"
Upon further questioning he said, 81
did not know her, and my mother and
brother do not know anything about it. ]"
The Chief here said to the jury that
the mother and brother were in custody
to await their action. He had no evil
dence at call duplicating them, but held
them IS witnesses and TO protect them
from the indignant people. The story
he had obtained was drawn out freely,
without any promises or threats. The
boy behaved coolly after the first, and
said he would tell Father Cook and his
counsel all about it.
Hence the inquest was adjourned until
Wednesday afternoon at p. M, the
Coroner saying that the next witnesses
be had would be the mother and the
brother of Pomeroy, who were held in
the station (the 6th,) till the feeling to-
ward them had in measure subsidized.
The adjournment was for the sake of
protecting them, also that other witness
es might be secured.
THE MURDERED CURRAN GIRL.
The following is the statement of Mrs
Curran, mother of the murdered little
girl;
On the 18th of March last, Katie went
out about five minutes after s 10 pur-
chase school card when she went out
she said, Mother, won't you have Celia
Abby Cher sister, ready to 60 to school
when | get back, as we have new
teacher and | don't want to be late Z"
asked her where she was going, and she
said she would go to Tobin's, and if she
didn't get it there she would 90 to Gill's !;
| never saw her after that she was near
ly always in the house, never out of my
sight, except when she was at school or
at same place of which ba knowledge
a girl named Lee told me that she saw
Katie that morning | recognized the
scarf and the black and green plaid
dress, also the sacque that was shown
me; it was old fashioned do not think
there was another like it in South Bos-
ton; am almost certain my child did not
know Pomeroy !; she was a bright, smart
girl, but very innocent German boy
named Kohr, who was in the habit of
selling papers or carrying papers for
Pomeroy, stated that he knew something
of this matter, and went to see him at
his house to find out what he knew, as
from the first | suspected that Pomeroy
had something to do with the disappear
ance of Katie; this boy told me that
Jesse Pomeroy opened the store in the
morning and cleaned it out : that short
ly after s o'clock, young lady named
Lizzie Chapman, who worked with Mrs
Pomeroy, came and took Jesse's place,
and, later in the morning, Mrs. Pomeroy
herself came 10 he told me that he saw
Katie in the store on the morning of her
disappearance, and that she wanted to
purchase card; he then described her
to me very accurately. Pomeroy said
he would give her card for three cents,
as there was an ink spot on it, and then
sent the Kohr boy out for some cat
meat l asked him if Pomeroy could
have hurt her in the rear of the store,
but he thought that impossible, as the
windows opened on Silver street, but he
said Pomeroy might have let her down
the trap door after this, went to Capt
Dyer, and told him what / had learned,
but he only laughed at me, saying Pom
eroy had no more to do with it than he
had; Detective Adams told me there
was no trap door in the store, and said
that the Kohr boy was liar, | asked
Adams to question him and shortly after
asked him if he had done so, and he
said that he had not; some time alter
wards Mr.. Adams told me that there
was trap door in the shop; but on my
still urging him to aid me, he said he
was confident he would bring Katie back
to me safe; | again went to Mr.. Adams,
and he said he had made thorough
search of the premises and questioned
the KOhr boy, and he still maintained
that the latter was a liar | thought
that Miss Chapman must have known
something of this matter, and | went to
Mrs. Pomeroy's store to see her, but a
young lady there said she had left, and
Mrs. Pomeroy told me she had gone into
the country.
Mr.. Curran here said in a very decid-
ed manner "Sheriff, has the store been
searched by the officers we have only
been told that it was" Mrs. Curran
then said that her child had been miss.
ing but few hours when Captain DYER