Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-07-07

wouldnN take q, walk with him, and upon con-
sentinS, he was led across marshes distance
Of at least mile, when suddenly he felt hut
teriug in his head and mechanically he took
bis pocket-knife from his pocket rapidly
opened It, and stabbed stabbed stabbed 1t into
his little victim, having no consciousness OF
what he was doing at the time, and never that
day fully realizing what he had done. That in
all the time he was walking with the boy he did
not have it in his mind to injure him, his only
notion in having him with him MAS for COM
panionship, and it was only when suddenly
seized with this uncomfortable impulse that he
did the Decd and it all occurred within minute
The boy was pretty child, and that was what
attracted him toward him.
THE MURDER OF THE LITTLE GIRL
When asked about the circumstances of his
killing the little girl in South Boston he said
that ''that morning his mother and brother were
away or engaged and lie was obliged to attend
to the periodical store. He sat reading awhile,
when pretty little girl, whom he had never
seen before, came in and asked for some papers.
Az soon as she spoke this terrible feeling all
through him, with the iluttering in his head.
came over him, and he replied: They're down
cellar Unsuspectngly she opened the door
and passed dywn the stairs, Pomeroy Immediate
ly following, drawing his knife as he went. Az
soon as the bottom was reached, he placed his
left hand over her moath, drew her head back
toward his shoulder and with tho knife in his
right hand cut her throat, and she was dead IN a
minute. NOb buTee hhu eAPhou iiom
the time he first laid eyes on the little girl be-
fore she was dead"
ANOTHER OF roMERoY's ATROCITIES.
At ono of the hearings before the council
there were present with their parents several of
the little victims Of his previous atrocities
Their recital of the injuries and tortures infiic-
ted upon them by Jessie Pomeroy were startling.
He met one little boy, when there was snow on
| the iground and tho thermometer near zero,
standing looking into window, he told him
story as to how man wanted a bundle carried
| a short distance, and as he had sled with him
| he would give the boy quarter II he would as
sist him, Consent being lgiven he led this boy
| away some two miles to shed, entered ana
made the boy strip to the skin, tied him up, took
out his knife. stuck it into each cheek, drawing
| it away looking at the point to SEQ the blood,
then caused the little fellow to don his cloth
| ing, placed him on his sled, and drew him
| to the boys own door and left him. Another
| boy he enticed into boat house, climbed with
| him into boat, made him strip, ard then tor
| tured him for an hour or more by sticking pint
| into his flesh to the depth Of from quarter tc
| half an inch, and this hundreds Of times, threat
| ening to kill his victim upon the least outcry
| finally releasing him and seeing him safely
home One thing is inexplicable-how did he
dare to return with his little victims to their yer,
DOORS unless it WAS, as he says, that he didn'
| know what he was doing"
| DINE NOVEL READER.
| Pomeroy has been close reader OF dime nov
els and yellow covered literature until. as one o
| the gentlemen stated in his argument before th
| Council, "hs brain WAS turned and his high
est ambition was to be the Texas Jack OF Soutl
/ Boston,"