St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-01

me somewhere, so | can't do such
things" The boys mother, who is a
respectable woman, has accompanied
him wherever the officers have led him.
POmerOy has been out of the reform
school since February, the governor
having pardOned him at the request of
his parents and others, on account of
his good conduct while in the school,
but the pardon was conferred against
the protest of the assistant visiting
agent of the state board of charities.
His criminal career began two wears
ago, when little boy was found in
Chelsea, tied to Il beam in shanty,
naked and bleeding from several wounds.
Other boys, from four to ten Years old,
were maltreated by the young fiend.
and he escaped detection for some time.
though rewards were offered for his
capture. But one day he committed
one of his worst Outrages in South Bos-
ton, and was at last detected. Many
children who had fearful gashes upon
them identified him at once. POmerOv's
mother herself was ignorant of her sons
depravity and was overwhelmed when
the revelations were made. 1t is now
oihNIoN WAY VIII
the little girl. Katie Curran. who has
been missing for Il month or so. She
lived opposite the home of Mullins. The
boy will doubtless he locked up again,
in an insane asylum, this time. it would
seem best, and probably won't be par
doned out again very soon.
THE YOUTHFUL FIEND.
The terrible record of this boy Pome-
roy fully entities him to the above
name. The excitement began early in
1872, when Il little fellow named Balch
had been found in Shanty on Powder
Horn Hill, tied to beam, Invested of
his clothing and bleeding from wounds
that had been inflicted upon him, as he
said, by IL boy whom he described and
who seemed, from the descriptions. to he
the same ut whose hands other Chelsea
lads had suffered, among whom WAS
Tracy Hayden. The citizens of Chelsea
formed vigilance committee with the
idea of approaching the Young monster.
They caused to be brought before them
and the little Balch fellow every lad
they could find who approached the de
Scrlpti"n of the alleged peIpetrator; 100
boys were arrested, but the verdict of
little Balch was ever. That is not the
boy, and the City Council Of Chelsea
at length offered Il reward of 5000 tol
the arrest of the guilty one. y while
after. similar crurltieS were rlricticcd in
south Boston, the perpctrator of which
WAS finally arrested III the person of
Jesse P"mcT"N. Ii then occurred to
some of the Vigilance Committee of
Chelsea that the author of this last
named outrage might he the same part.
who had operated i'll Chelsea. The
lialch boy WAS taken over to the Tuub>
" her" the lad Pomcroy WIS confined.
and. not knowing why he WIS taken
instantly identified Pnmeroy. when he
WAS brought into his presence. as the
one who had committed the outrage up
on him. P"mcroy WAS taken hctnrr
Judge F"r>aith and examined on the
10th of September. lS72. and was sent
to the Reform School ut WeSthoro. for
the remainder of his minority.
Tn" boys tortured 10y this mi>,rcant
previous to his former arrest. and for
assaults on whom he waS indicted.
were: y son of Mr.. Paine of Chelsea.
VIII" WAS. about Christmas time. ISL.
taken by Pomcroy to Powder Horn
Hill. stripped naked. tied to beam.
beaten with a rope. and left helpless.
Tracy Hayden. another boy. was. on
February u. le12. stripped. tied up
and beaten with Il board and ropes. by
which some Of his teeth were knocked
out the bridge of his nose broken. and
other injuries inflicted upon him.
Robert Could. III September of the
same year, WAS taken from South BoS-
tom to the vicinity of the Hartford and
Erie Railroad. stripped. tied to a telc-
graph pole. whipped and cut with
knife i'll the head.
George Pratt. about the same time.
WAS enticed into the cabin of Yacht at
south Boston. stripped and punctured
with pins and needles on different parts
Of his body. and left insensible and
bleeding.
Joseph Kennedy was. about the same
time. taken to Il place on the Old Colo .
ny road. i'll South Boston. and maltrcat-
rd III about the same manner that the
Gould boy had been. These bows were
ali OF tender age-trom seven to eleven
Se;uS old. When arraigncd. Pomcroy
that he was guilty of all these
deeds. and said the onl reason why he
did as he did WAS that he could not help
it. He said that he 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
nor was any prctcnce of the kind made. .