New-York tribune., 1874-07-21
BOSTON'S COY MURDERER.

YOUNG POIEROY CONFESsEs THE MURDER OF LITTLE
KATY CURRAN-INTEREsTING FACTS REGARDING
TIE BOY DEVELOPED.
BosToN, July 20.-Thc suspicious aroused by
the discovery OF Katy Currans body have been fulfilled
sooner than expected. for, after Pomeroy stold
denial of Saturday night few expected that he would 50
soon confess the deed and supplement- 1t with ful cN
panation OF the way in which il was done The simple
direetness and painful mnuteness OF his story as told
to Chief Savage far to prove its truth and to render
of 10 account any future denial that he might make
The developments of the examination to-day. though
not unexpected, have excited the deepest inter
est in the phenomenal character OF the boy
All his crueltes other children. his hendish murder
of the Miller boy recalled, and new cases, where he
endeavored to entice children away with HIM. have
been discovered. II will be long time before the boy
with the eye like a marble will be forgotten In South
Boston.
When he was first examined two years on charges
of muatng little boys in Chelsea and East Boston he
said in reply TO question why lie did 1t; IL do u
know your Honor, only l could not help II;
had TO do it," 1t has now come out
that directly after this investigation party
Of three wel-known physicians. who were anxious
70 learn all they could about the boy, called upon his
mother and had very pleasant and candid interview
with her They told their errand. and she gave them all
the information III her power Among other Things,
she said that her husband was butcher, ana that
short time before the birth OF the boy she was IN the
habit of going daily 10 the slaughterhouse TO witness
the killing of the animals, and that. somehow: she
took particular delight III seeing her husoanu
butcher the sheep the calves ana the cattle
this bloody work She also said that after Jesse wa.
born and became old enough to have knife ~ his hand
he was all the time, when opportunity offered sticking
knife into pieces OF meat and when little o!aer ani
about his fathers market he did the same thing He
have been. only in different way.
"a fun Tisn
to themselves. do not live together and have not for
time. The father s rather short stout man;
Market lugger OF beef The mother Is rather tail
epay spoken OF ~ pleasant sort OF lady she
on the dressmakng business and said 10 have plenty
Pomeroy is about II wears OF age and bears good rep
utatiOn among his acquaintances He was the one who
come 10 the city mornings after the weekly papers,
leaving his younger brother IN charge OF the store
TIE CONFESSION OF PoNERoY-THE CURRAN GIRL
BUTCHERED IN COLD BLOOD
BosToN July 20.-Jesse H. Pomeroy made
full confession murder of Katy Curran to Chief
OF Police Savage to-day which he read at the Coroners
inquest. 1t in the following words:
opened my mothers store on the morning OF March
IS at o. The Curran girl came In for papers told her
there was store down stairs She went down 10 about
the middle OF the cellar and stood facing Broadway.
folio ed her. put my left about her neck, hand
her mouth, aud. With my knife in my right hand
cut her throat. then dragged her to and behind the
laying her head furhermost up the place,
ana put stones and ashes the body. took the
ashes from In the cellar. 1 sent a boy
10 Hoyt & Lawrence's store near by and
bought the kuife week before for rs
cents. The knife taken from me when was
arrested When was In the cellar heard my brother
az inside door which had locked after the r came
in up stairs ana found him going toward tue cell
lar Ia Mitches part. He came back Two girls worked
IN the for They usually got there about
o'clock mother later. Nv brother Charles and
/ took turns IN opening the store until about April. Ny
mother and brother knew anything about the af
fair forgot To tell you that washed NY hands and
knife, which were bloody, at the water pipe.
Chief Savage also exhibited to the Jury plan OF the
cellar whca the boy drew from memory. that
markaby well execued, and very correct Mrs Curran,
the mother OF the murdered girl, the ony other
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