, 1874-07-21
He Did It Because he Couldn't
Help It.
Confession Of the Boy-Mur-
derer at Topeka, Kan.
Brutal Assault on the Attorney-Generat
OF Manitoba in St. Paul.
Miscellaneous Criminal Record.



1suston Childish urtfercr.
Srteiut Dispateh 10 The chicaoo Tribune.
DosToE, Mass., July 2u.-The suspicious
aroused by the discovery Of Katy Curran's body
hayo been fulfilled sooner than WIS expected
for, after pomoroy's atolid donial OF Saturday
night, few expected that he would 30 soon con-
fcss the deed, and supplement 1t with full ex-
p]anatiou of the way IN which the decd was dono.
Tho simple diroctness and painful minuteMeBa OF
Ills story as told to Ohief Savage 20 far to provo
It's truth. mud to render Of no account any future
denial TINT ho might make. Tho developments
Of the examination To-day, though nos unexpeo1-
Cd, hsyo croatod tho deepest intorcRt III tho
PHENOMENAL CHARACTER OF THE DoY.
All his orueltioB to othor children, his ticndtsh
murder Of tho Alior boy, arc recalled. and new
casos whero hs endeayored to ontice c4,ldron
away with him have been dlscover4d 1t will
10 a long titno beforo tho boy with the oye hko
marble will bo, forgotten In South Boston.
When he was tirnt examtnod two years ago on
charges Of 1nutilating little boys IN cholsaa and
East Boston, 1le said, in reply to question why
ho did it, "fdon't know, your honor; Only :,
~ COULD NOT uELp IT; HAD 70 DO IT,"
1t baa now co,no ont TINT, directly after thIB
Investigation, party OK throe WcliKnown
could about tllo boy, callcd upon his mother anu
had very pleasant mud cnndid interview with
hor. They told their errand, and aho gave them
all tho information III her power; Among other
and that during the period of hor pregnancy she
wont daily to tho slauglter~houso
TO WITNESS THE KILLING OF TIE AN1aIA1s.
and that somehow sho took particular dclightin In
calvos, and tho cattle, and not uufre1ueutly sl,o
agRiatod hinr In tlts bloody work. Slo also said
that utter Jesse was born ind became old
enough to have knifo In Ills hRnda be was all
the timc, when opportunity oGerod, jabbing d
Anifo into pieces Of meat, and, when still olaor,
aud about Ills fatler's Market he did the same
thug.
uE wAs srdp1.Y MARKED ny HIS MOTHER,
Just other children hnyo been, only in dtnor-
cut way. The family CONSISTS Of four pcraoua,-
tho father, mother. and hiA two Rous.
TILE PARENTS,
for gomo reasen best known to themselves, do
not live together, and have not for somo time.
Tho father il q rather short mau, about DO yaara
Of age, md omployed at Fauueil Hall market as
o 1ugger Of bool, eto. Tho mother is rather tall
for woman, ID younger than 1er husband, and
Is generally spoken q as a pleasant sort OF a
lady. She carries o, t lress-lnaktng business,
and Ia said to havo p4t-uty Of work most OF tho
time.
THE ELDEST SON.
Charles J. pomeroy, is about II ycarH Of age,
and bears good reputation among his ac-
quaintaucee. He wRs tho Quo who carried on
the periodical store, and WAS accustomed to
como to tho city mornings after tho weokly ra-
nors. leaviug hia younger brother ap ahAtgo OF
Ito the Asscetattd Hxss1
THE CONFESSION.
Bos1oN, July 20.-1eaac r. pomeroy made =
full confession OF tho murder Of Katy Curran to
Chief Of Police Savage to-day, which he read ut
the Corouor's inquest. It WIS in tho following
wordB:
IT opened my mother's Rtore on tho morning
OF March Is, ut half-paBt .. Tho Ourran girl
came In for papers. I told hpr there waH o storo
down-stairs. She wont down to about Tho mud
die of tho collar, and stood facing Broadway. I
followed her. put my left arm about her neck,
my hand ovor hor mouth, aud with my knife III
my right hand, cut her throat. T then dragged
her to and behind tho wator-closet, laying her
head furthcrnoat up the p}aco, and put sonle
stones and ashes on the body. took the aBhos
from box in tho cellar. sent . boy to Hoyt
l. lawrence's store, near by, aud bought the
knife, week before, for 25 cents. Tho knife
was taken from mo When WIS arroatcd. When
WITS in the collar 1 heard my brother
at the inside door, which ! haa locked.
After tho girl came In run up stairs and found
him going towards the collar in Mtchell's part.
lie eanae back. My mother and b1osAar never
knew anything about the affair. I forgot tu tell
yos, that washod my hauds aud knife, which
Tsro bloody, at the water-pipe."
Chief savago nso exhibited to the jury plau
Of the celhr, which the boy drew from memory,
that was remarkably well executed and very cor.
rect. ..
Mrs. Ourran. the mother Of tho murdered girl
WAS the only other witueHH examined.