Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-07-08
PeAere1, the fssT Marasrer.

DHC1sloN OF TIE COUNCIL IN REY1RKNCE 10 TUE
TO- AANaINo-rMK CoNFnssloN. b.
Boston dispatches state that the Council, %
Friday, by vote OF Ave to four, authorized the
Governor of Massachusetts, TO issue his warrant
for the execution Of the boy murderer, Jesse
Pomeroy, whose murder Of two small children,
for no cause whAtever, 10 we'll remembered. An
immense pressure WAS brought to bear on the
Governor and Council by parties in favor Of
meeting out to Pemeroy the full extent Of the
law .. hanging-instead Of communication Of
sentence to imprisonment for life. Delegation
after delegation (mothers in nearly all cases)
have waited upon members OF the council 1t
their homes, Offices, on the street, ut the hot>i6
while dining, and even in stores when making
necessary purchases have they been beseiged BY
ladies', AZ soon ~ recognized ~ members of the
Governors council to cast their vote In favor Of
hanging whenever his case should cons before
the council for final disposition, s..rflI
THE ooNYEssIoN. lao
Pomsroy was visited ct the Jail where no has
Of the council, who Aohversed with him on the
subject of his crimes. They found him TO be
an unusually bright and intelligent lad; his an
swers were given with promptness and decision;
there WAS no wavering or hesitation in them,
but right to the point. When asked how many
murders he had committed his quick reply was,
Two sir !" He was asked why he killed the
little boy, aud replied that " he did not know"
He said that he was standing viii, two others
looking 1t the working OF FIRE engine, when he
noticed = pretty-looking little boy standing
near. He suddenly asked the little fellow il he
wouldn't take walk with him. and upon con-
senting, he was led across marshes distance
OF ut least . mile, when suddenly he felt . hut-
tering In his head and mechanically he took
his pocket-knife from HI. pocket, rapidly
opened 1t, and stabbed, stabbed stabbed it into
his little victim, having no consciousness OF
what he was doing Ut 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 1t in his mind to injure him, his only
notion in having him with him Was for COM
panionship, and 1t was only when suddenly
seized with this uncomfortable impulse that he
did the deed, and 1t all occurred within minute
The boy was pretty child and that was what
attracted him toward him. .l.
TEE MURDER OF THE LITTLE aIRI.
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 he was obliged to attend
to the periodical store. He sat reading awhile,
when pretty little girl whom he had never
seon before, came in and asked for some papers.
As soon Is she spoke this terrible feeling all
through him, with the tiuttering in his head.
came over him, and he replied They're down
cellar Unauspectingly she opened the door
and passed dywn the stairs, Pomeroy immediate.
~ following, drawing his knife as he went As
left hand over her mouth, drew her head back
toward his shoulder. and with the knife in his
right hand cut her throat, and she was dead in
minute. Not three minutes had expired from
the time he first laid eyes on the little girl DO.
fore she was dead"
ANOTHER OF PoxERoY's ATROCITIES.
At one 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 fortunes inflic-
ted upon them by Jessie Pomeroy were startling.
He met one little boy, when there Was snow on
the ground and the thsI mometer near zero,
standing looking into window, he told him
story ~ to how = man wanted bundle carried
. short distance, and - he had sled with him
he would give the boy quarter il he wouid as
sist him, Consent being tg4vcn he led this boy
away some two miles to . ahed, entered and
made the boy strip to the skim tied him up, took
out his knife, stuck 1t into each cheek, drawing
il away looking at the point to rec 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 entieed into boat house, climbed with
him into boat, made him strip, ard then tor
TIRED him for an hour or more by sticking pins
into his flesh to the depth of from quarter 70
half an inch, aud this hundreds Of times, threat
ening TO kill his victim upon the least cutlery,
finally releasing him and seeing him safely
home, One thing is inexplicsble did he
dare to return with his little victims to their very
doors, unless 1t was, - he says, that "he didn't
know what he was doing
DINE NOVEL RkADKR. ist.r..
Pomsroy has been close reader Of dime nov
els and yellow covered literature until ~ one Of
ths 9sntlssuen Stated In bis st1unsnt before the
Council, " biz brain wa turned, md his high
81 ambihon was to b the TsxAs Jack OF 60uth
Boston" ln