The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-05
A YOUTHFUL VAMPIRE.
THE Roy HEND.


The Boston Globe gives the following ac-
count Of the disDolical cruelty OF the boy
Jesse Pomeroy, who lately,it will be remem-
bered, killed another lad named Millen near
Boston. The efforts of the officers having
failed to elicit any confession from the boy
murderer, Detective Woods took eboy to the
where the body lay, and placed
the murderer face to face with his victim.
Pomeroy turned away his head. "Do you
know that little boy?" eyes, sir" "Did you
kill him?; "Isuppose did" "Well, how
did you get the blood of the knife; did you
wash 1t off" "No, sir; stuck 1t into the
mud.u For the first time since his arrest
the bow showed some signs of contrition, and
expressed the desire that his mother should
not be informed of his act. He Is now in the
Charles street Jail TO await the action OF the
coroner's jury which holds session this af-
ternoon at station TX. The terrible record
OF this boy Pomeroy fully entities him to
the above name. The readers OF the Globe
the brutal treatment Of several small boys
of ages between four and ten years, living in
Chelsea. by a lad in his teens. The excite
ment began early in 1872, when a little fell
low named Balch had been found in shanty
on Powder Horn hill, tied to beam, dives
that had been inflicted upon him, as he
said, by boy whom he described and who
seemed, from the description, to be the same
at whose hands other Chelsea lads had suf-
fered, among whom was Tracy Hayden.
The citizens of Chelsea formed vigilance
committee with the idea of apprehending
the young monster. They caused to be
brought before them and the little Balch fell
low every lad they could find who ap-
preached the description of the alleged per-
petrator; 100 boys were arrested, but the
verdict of little Balch was ever, "That is nC
the boy" and the City Council OF Chelsea a.
length offered
REWARD OF $500
for the arrest of the guilty one. A while
after similar cruelties were practised in
South Boston, of which the perpetrator was
finally arrested in the person of Jesse Pome-
row. It then occurred to some of the vigil
lance committee of Chelsea that the author
of the last named outrage might be the same
party who had operated in Chelsea. The
Balch boy was taken over to the Tombs,
where the lad Pomeroy was confined, and,
not knowing why he was taken, instantly
identified Pomeroy, when he was brought
into his presence, as the one who had COM
mitted the outrage upon him. Pomeroy
was taken before Judge Forsaith and exam
ined on the Goth of September, 1872, and was
sent to the Reform School at Westboro, for
the remainder of his minority. The boys
tortured by this mlscreant previous TO his
former arrest, and for assaults on which he
was indicted, are: A son of Mr.. Paine, OF
Chelsea, who was, about Christmas time,
1871, taken by Pomeroy to Powder Horn
Hill, stripped naked, tied to a beam, beaten
with a rope, and left helpless. Tracy Hay
den, another boy, was, on February 81, 1872,
stripped, tied up and beaten with board
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knocked out, the bridge of his nose broken,
and other injuries inflicted upon him.
Johnny Balch was enticed to Powder Horn
Hill, soon after July 4, 1877, stripped, gagged,
tied to BEAM beaten and then taken to a
salt water creek and washed. Robert Gould
In September of the same year, was taken
from South Boston to the vicinity of the
Hartford & Erie Railroad, stripped, tied to a
telegraph pole, whipped and cut with a
knife in the head. Harry Austin, in August
of the same year, was, at South Boston
stripped, beaten and cut in the back and
groin with knife. George Pratt, about the
same time, was enticed into the cabin of q
yacht at South Boston, stripped and
PUNcTURED WITH PINS AND NEEDLES
on different parts of his body, and left in.
sensible and bleeding. Joseph Kennedy
was, about the same time, taken to place
on the Old Colony road, in South Boston,
and maltreated in about the same manner
that the Gould boy had been. These boys
were all of tender age-from seven to eleven
years old. When arraigned, Pomeroy con.
fessed that he was guilty of all these deeds,
and said the only reason why he did as he
did was that he could not help it. He said
had not read any murder stories or dime
novels, but had only read his school books.
At that time he gave no evidence of insanity,
| Of hot Ii IL
Considerable inquiry has been made as to
how Pomeroy. after his conviction of SO
many heinous offences, was pardoned out oil
the Reform School after being there only q
year and five months. The explanation is
as follows: When boys are sent to the Re-
form School, they are sent for their minority
unless previously discharged. II, after q
considerable stay, their behavior has been
exemplary and they give promise of reform
and future good behavior, and If they have q
good home TO which their parents are anx.
| ious to have them returned, they are often
pardoned on probation. This is of every
day occurrence. and this was the case with
for his being put on proba.
ton and allowed to come home, and
as his record while in the school was
good, this was granted on February 6, 1874
Mr.. ID. B. Johnson. the assisting visiting
agent of the State Board of Charities, how.
oNofs stateS tudt tno pdfuOu WAS actively
pressed by Mr.. John Ayers, in spite of bis
(Mr. Johnton's) opposition on the ground
that Pomoroy had been there but IL months
and that there has been seven cases Of inhu.
man treatment, by tormenting boys, against
him at the time OF his sentence. M -
WHERE Is KATIE CURRAN?
Sometime in the month of March, a little
girl named Katie Currau, living in South
Boston, nearly opposite the place where the
Millen boy lived, disappeared suddenly and
mysteriouslv. Active measures were al
once inaugurated in hopes of finding her
alive, or, at least, of recovering her body. A
reward was offered b. the mayor for any
information that should dispel the mystery
and strenuous efforts have been making
ever since, but with no avail. Tho affair
is as dark to-day as it was at the time of its
announcement. Not a word has been heard
of the missing girl. 1t is now suggested
that Pomeroy knows something about this
case, and it is possible that be may some
daY confess q connection with the disan-