The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-26
JESSE POMEROY.
Continuation Of His Analysis
Of His Own Case.
REVIEW OF TIE TRIAL.
His Reasons Why He Was Insane if He
Did the Murders.

garo 10 the crimes OF Whicn ne mas Deen Gull
victed. In speaking or the doctors he says:-
The story that l told DR.. Tyler was just like
DR.. Walkers. Here t IS. | cont know but GU
would ike TO see IT. first told him OF those
boys cases, now met the boys on the streets and
went up TO them ana TOOK them just Out OF mere
eompanionshp, and that when nrst took them
1 uad no more idea OF whipping and torturlng
them than / had OF jumping up TO The moon, but
That, just as got up 10 the place where ala IL
20 thsm that sudden impulse or leellng came
over me To 40 IL " them; then II seemed TO me
rouid not help doug II. After doing II 10 them
had conveniently forgotten wnat happened ana
also what do remember Is very indlstinct; that
ara not Remember put very lndstlnctly ol doing ~
or their appearance Tney or ne ASKED me If
remembered taking boy named Baicn ana ask
ing nlm II ne wanted TO earn twenty-five cen <
told them that remembered taxing a ool under
tnat circumstances, but Gld not remember MS
Dame- Tney asked me II | remembered telling
aim to go into store and ask iC4A NtrIng 10 tie
Inc bundle winch ne proposed W carry, ahd II l
remembered asking MN II the Pomeroy boy was
not oaa boy. aud II l remembered what ne sad
also u remembered taking MIN anu, aller beat
ing him. washing aim IN salt water place. 10
taose questions SAID remembered not partl-
Gle OF them. TheQ was asked ABOUT the leellng
In uy mead. LAS had oeen subject TO headaches
told them OF the pam, IN reality IL was
nothing but the literal truth only applied 10
subject wncn might DO our case good.J 1
told them that AZ the time OIL doing IL anu just
before, = sudden pain would start near my ear
lust over lt--and go from one side 70 the olher;
that the feeling which accompanied 1t was that
must do something, which something dtd not
know; but jast AZ that time that other feeling
would come telling me 10 whip or klL tRe boy
grL As the case was, and thai IL seemed 10 me
tRat could not help dong II. That the
planatioh gave ol the pain III all the cases.
Whether 1t really helped my case any can't say,
blt taat have that PAIN without tue Impulse 10
whip person. Will not deny. was, perhaps,
wroaR IN telling that story but at that time had
thought anu peen talked 10 SO mucn thar really
did believe did DO it; that Is, l believed 1t for
While but all al once saiu TO myself Inat did
not do II. The next doctor tnat came TO see me
DR., ChoaEe. lie came on the government side OF he
question, aud think That he had prepared his
ppiDion as u my DONG those things before ne ever
raw me- However that may be, he came TO see
nae on the 18TH, think, oil OCTOBER though / am
not sure Of the time. dld not IKE MIN so well
l diu the other Two doctors he was too stIff that
Is. ne seemed 30 be always wrapped up starch
However, told nan the same story as l did the
others, and VITA not the same Irankness or ful-
ness perhaps but did the best could Jast as
ne haa ueen here nye or ten minutes, DR.. tyler
ealae IN; SO the TWO sat down, aud then IL was az
mucn as could DO 10 answer tneir questions.
guess they knew each other, Tor they conversed in
DIR. Choate mad provided himself with report OF
my nrst trial also OF what rad Sald when
rested ana also OF the facts relating cases.
nnd II l made snge answer that did
respond win his paper he smiled as though
nc thought l was telling him lies. However,
they look their leave al last ana righl glad was
LOT they had Rept me on the stretcn Tor nearly an
hour aud q malt lhis was the nrst time he came
In: II was Dr. Iyler's third fourth. l Will tell
Tou now OF my trying 10 say aid not do THESE
things. One day got note from mother. In It
Sue said sue did not believe me guilty, and that
something made her write TO me- Ilat was aoout
the substance Of the note. she asked me not TO
say ana unless | aid, ana to say didn't II |
didn't Well, it was not the first time that had
Thought OF mat, TO tell the TRUTH AT that time l
help doing 1t, but at times something would say,
Jesse, you know you ana not 40 these things. so
why do you not stand out and try clear your
sell OF IT." But hesisated, and why Because |
was AFRAID mother ana brother woulu be arrested
came that / did do IL. held me back for
some time, but this note decided It. But still
[ did these things, out 1 SAID, Perhaps notn
rhat very day Dr. Onoate again came; IL was his
second visit; now had been thinking OF this ming
Hi that DAY most and don't think 10 Is a wonder
that when he asked me or SAID something, in
'.No, l did not" | was thinking Of something
Else at the time, bat ala take the trouble or
snink it my ddty 10 explain why l said SO. He
.ooked at me. ana, for tne moment, guess, he
ala think was Insane II not crazy Then he asked
be commenced to tax OF something else Then
he asked me II l mad heard about the Joyce chill
lst5 or 1896. / told MN did remember II. but
never heard what became OF The one that killed
them. He said they never IOund out We talked
TINS way Tor some time. Then ne went away.
After reviewing the testimony for and against
him he anaiyzes the verdict OF the jury, and con-
Biders that the Iury's compromise conclusive
proof OF mis- innocence. de sums up as lollows:-
That was found at the age OF five years cutting
kitten with knife; tnat was subject to a Pc
culiAr feeling 10 The head at times; that those
acts Of those boys indicate diseased mind the
subject oil those acts they were insane, because
no one but an insane person wouId 40 So because
the manner Of taxing tue boys, and making one Of
them get a stone, and having this boy lump
Eround MIN. and making queer noise, ike laugh
ing; because the making OF boy 20 Knees
Prayer
because OF the sticking OF Doy with Il knife and
koiding lt up SO that tEe blood could drop down,
and laughing at the time, and taen repeating IL;
because Ii Is the blood tnat seeml TO De that
winch excites me, as shown By the story OF the
snake; aso of sticking the Knne INTO tue BOY
and the holding up and letting the blood CROP on;
and that swo doctors, who haa each OF them been
to me SIX times, pronounce me insane; think,
therefore, that II 1 cId 90 tuose things was IN
zane. But, Notwithstanding ali that, as 1 nave
said, 40 not think aid those things. for these
Tnat was not. at the age OF five, seen on the
street cutting Cat; tnat the governments Jailed
To prove me guilty IN those first cases; because
my confession was gwen through lear and under
promise; because they utd not allow me 10 nave
evidence not SUFFICIENT snow that MAS the
BOY who dld those things; because Two OF those
because all the evidence Irol the boys tnat
were injured, and they were lreJudlced against
me; because evidence allowed TO be put
la on my side; because the Judge cid not weigh /
the evtnenee lmpartialy; because tue sentence
was unjust, ana because know that dld not 30
Il 10 those boys, conclude that 4 was not gutty
or the acts; that the story Of my being excited
when killing tnat snake or ii giving me satsIaefion
beyond tnaI wnlcn 4 mentioned is not So;
that tie government Ia the case vi Kate Curfan
Jailed 10 Show or prove that she came IN the store
Ga the morning Of the lstn OF March 1874; because
irrespective oi my cOnIesslon ~ mas got be
proved; that they larnished no evidence that the
nirl was Killed N that ceiiar or that buried her;
mat no evidence o. blood beIng seen or found In
the cellar was put 10; mat no evidence OF bad
smell being found was put IN that there was
evidence Of blood Oeins on my clothes
t1s II would De natural to suppose
tne cellar ana found nothing, nor noticed a bad
or any KIND OF smell therefore, taaL AZ Is q man
Lost lmpossDlhiy That that bo1y should lie there
fCur months without u being noticed. That work
men had been there nine days before tue body
was discovered, and that they saOulu not notice a
Dad SiDell. IL, ~ seems 70 Ine, Impossible. mat
me verdict was not true on account OF the in
EnncencY Ofevldence, aad that II was Influenced
by prejudice; that 4 Know tnat did not DO that
muraer, and tHat knOg my Whereabouts IN tue
day or the muroer; That the cone sslyn not
given ON my part Wlthout reluctance; because
the person 10 whom gave tue c1nfesson was not
true 10 his word, and because the confession was
maae simply as l wished 70 get my mother and
brother released, not because ala the murder,
ana because / Know That B dId not 40 a.. say
am ianOcent OF Thai CRIME. The government
alled 10 prove any pleInedltatlen on my part;
tney failed 70 prove That any one saw me with tie