The New York herald., 1875-07-19
PONEROY, 7HE BOY TTENN.
he RetractS His Previous Confessions
and Pleads 'NOt Guilty."
TELLS SOMETHING OF His SCAPEGRACE LIFE.
The Hangman's Rope Waiting for the Young
Reviewer Of Remarkable Trial.
BOSTON, July Is, 1875.


who mas murdered no less than two or three chill
dren. and tortured and manned for life a still
larger number, is just now attrac tang consdera
Bile public attention. The of1cers and the court:
have done their duty in detecting, proving and
anx1ng the proper penalty Tor his offences. Thi:
penalty. It is scarcely necessary to add nothing
less than hanging, and the Executive Council has
voted In the affirmative on the question o.
whether the young brute shall snfIer the death
penalty or not. ana all that now remains to be
done Is for Governor CASTOR TO sign the fatal war
rant which shall authorize the sunolk county
Sheriff TO extinguish the vital spark in the system
OF Jesse Pomeroy, and thus add TO the general
safety and protection OF juvenile society.
PoNEBoy's LIFE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
Since his confinement in the Boston Jail young
Pomeroy has devoted much OF his time to reading
and writing, and the fact that he has taste Ior
literature Is an explanation Of the interesting
account which he has furnished. He has been
several months in preparing It. and the most OF
it-as the story goes-was sent out OF jail sur
reptltously IN his dirty clothing which he sent to
his mother TO wash and iron. His mother saws
that she has received the subjoined story In fraa-
ments In this manner ever since her son has been
in jail, and she would not now make It public ex-
cept Tor the fact that Its concealment VIII be or
no earthly advantage. The whole OF 1t was written
by himself, and the original manuscript of the
young Is IN Lne POSSESSION OF the HERALD
correspondent.
Pomeroy opens his narrative with details OF his
early lIfe showing ne was born November 29 1859
at CharlestOwn. Mass. entered public school at
six years or age, where he got the rattan pretty
freely, ana played "hooK Jacku whenever he
could. He was pupil In the winthrop Grammar
School in 1868 until 1872. where he paid more at
tention to his. studies. In 1868 and 1862 he
says. my father had lett the Navy Yard, and was
working in Boston driving horse and wagon for
MI. Hayden. We had also at this time moved
from Lexington street to Bunker Hill street, No.
IS; It was nearer to school and better in all re-
spects than our other house. In 1870 we moved
next door, to a better house than we haa ever
lived in before. Charles (my brother) and Joined
base ball club, and he was elected captain; he
was splendid player / was captain one year.
One day Charlie ana went fishing down on Chel-
sea Bridge; we went to the first pier OF the left
hand side going toward Chelsea. We had caught
q lew fish and Charles was just going to throw the
line out again. but as he did SO the hook struck
and caught my lace, nearly going into my left eye;
1t buried itself deep right the bone under II.
We went TO Dr. Bickford and he took it (the hook
out.
A CURIOUS FACT.
Now, the reason tnat fmention that incident is
this:-That though the PAIN was great and hurt
very much did not show any feeling at all,
either when IL was in there or when the doctor
was taxing it out; and now what strikes me as
curols at this time Is that It might furnish clew
as to why do not show any feeling now in regard
to this case. Though did not at this time show
any feeling 1t was no sign had none, and now II
do not show any in regard to these cases it is
not TO De supposed that have none. But with
regard to my feelings will consider that by and
by. About this time Qs7O, had contracted
A GREAT LOVE OF READING.
fused TO read some novels, but mostly good,
solid books, and now while have been In here
can truly say that l have read q greas deal
that-if 1t is not now-will be to my advantage
IN the future, and though do not feel any hard.
ness against the ones who put me here, l do
think tnat they were rather hasty In their deci-
sion against me. One day went to school bent
on having some fun, met one OF my chums
named Atwood there, and as II was near che lit
OF June had some frecrackers with me. Wel 1
proposed to Atwood that we should have some
fun by firing them on; he agreed with me that
was 10 fire mine first, he afterward. Well in
school that afternoon, at about halEpast three 1
nred mine or You ought to have been there
to see how astoDished the boys and teacher
looked. 1 guess they thought the building
was falling down, for they looked fright.
ened enough. It was very laughable, but
the laugh was on the other side when
the teacher called me out and gave me good
licking, and after that was over made me stand
up by the stove with q dumb bell in one hand and
stone on the top OF my head; she told me II 1
dropped either OF them or made any noso she
would give me another thrashing, and believe
she would. AZ you see, my fun aid not turn out
so well as thought IT would, and that was the
last time for long while that tried to have any
fun in school. Atwood, the mean fellow, got so
scared that ne did not fire MS or as he said he
I iaffo hfo h,,fa
while we were good friends again. But you
must not think was always bad at school; 1
gave my teacher trouble enough am sure, but
as o general thing was what is commo My
called a good boy. But have forgotten to mention
before that
WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL
every Sunday when lived on Lexington street,
and part OF the time on Bunker Hill street.
went to the place called Mission Hall. That is the
first place l ever went to. 1t was very food
place. liked 1t very much. went TO tnat place
ABOUT six years. 1hey used TO have splendid
picnlcs there. Inc last one went to rom that
pace was IN 1870. We Che sunday schooD went
10 Walden Pond. had splendid time, stayed all
day, had a gO0u dinner, went in bathing (those
VINO wisneo), rowed OH the pond, nad some fun
IN the swings and got sick ON them, ana, In fact,
iihoroesniJ enjoyed ourselves l nave not men
TO wind up when We were going TO Boston on the
cars man was Killed by the cars. He was walk
ing on the track, was rather deaf so dld not hear
the cars, and the consequence was that the engine
hit hIil, sAQ when the rain was stopped the men
o, the engine picked him up dead. Poor man TO
be cuL on SO suddenly, almost without warning, it
was too bad. know IL maze feel bad tue rest
OF the nleh, and | could not help tninKing OF it
Tor long time after; the rest OF Our company
felt very bad, for some OF them criea, particularly
the girls but then, as they are tne weaker sex,
suppose tnat was all right out we arrived IN Boston
without iurther acctdent. As have stated, IwenL
TO tue Mission Hal Tor some time tnen leit there
ana went TO Mr.. Barnai as church on Edgewortn
street. mad H. OF sickness anu IL was
very bad am told / was crazy for nearly
week, but Tot over t. After that mother thought
needed cnanee OF air Il Thought so inc most Of
any, aud so ala Cnarlesl, so Mother packed us OH,
bag aud baggage. 20 Maine or more properly
Batn and Georgetown. Caares and started &C
six O'CLOCK ~ night, on board the steamer star
OF the East for Bath. lt was a very good steamer,
easy gong as could he; but alter we mad passed
out OF boston harDor good many OF the passen-
gers nad 10 pay tribute to Neptune, and among