Connecticut western news., 1875-07-30
THE BOY WITH THE WHITE BY


 Murderer, Jesse Pomeroy.
 The boy murderer, Jesse Pomeroy, has written what he calls an autobiography of himself, It makes fourteen columns of n Boston newspaper. After relating with much minuteness his recollections of early boyhood, he narrates the cir cumstanees. of his early crime as follows i;
 At about the first day of August weI had to change schools. So, at the be- ginning of the school term in South Boston. I applied for admission at the Bigelow school, corner of E and Fourth streets.a I was admitted This was about the 2d or Sd of September, 1872. After I had been at the school about a week or so, Q police officer (whose name Il afterwards ascertained-- the, time of my arrest-lwas Mir. Bragdon) and lit tie boy came into the school, and he looked over all of us, and said to the officer, "The boy isn't here" The ittls boys name I afterwards found out was Joseph Kennedy. He visited all the schools of South Boston, md you will take notice of what he said, '.The boy isn't here" On the 21st day of this same month (September) was walking up Broadway toward home. I stopped Q moment, and looked, out of mere curi- osity, into the police station, No 6.
 then walked along, when just as got up to O street, this officer that came into the school that day came out of the police station, accompanied by this boy, and took me by the arm, and said he wanted to see me atsthe station. told him had done nothing and commenced to cry, wus so frightened. He took meato the station, and those boys that had been so maltreated by another came and said that | was the boy that did it to them, and the only way they identi7 fed me was because had spot on the right eye. We'll, the officers questioned me, and then I was locked up in 8 eel, ,. not allowed to see,my parents or friends. Here that night I was kept in torture, ! could almost say, by the questioning and Ainging in my face all about this case. Il could not give an iota of the yayaI was treated by the men and off oerstof that station. ..q They used nasty language to me, called me all sorts of names, and venture to state. that never was boy. of my age placed before in such a condition. Bear in, mind, I had denied my guilt in fact, I did not have hardly an idea. of what [ was arrested for. My feelings will describe y-and- bye. What wonder isit that, on account of this being flung in, my face at every opportunity, and the officers using nasty language to me in describing the cases, that with nay terror and confusion was in-what wonder is it that II requested to be let alone, and not talked to so much ' And because I did make that request, the officers said I was guilty 1; but they would not let me alone they piled me with question upon question, but did not get me to contradict myself, or to confess to my doing those horrible crlmes.loN 5aA ysR{Ag,4 pgsg } sal ts8Q5gaIh-
 s1a At night about twelve o'clock, I was aroused from sleep by two persons com ing to my cell and telling me to get up. One of them came in and took me on his knee and said :: " Jesse, tell me how you did these things a'a- I told him I did not do them then he swore he would make me confess. Then he went away, but in a few moments he came back again with. this same man, and took me on his knee and said: {" Jesse, know you did these things. and if you do not confess they will ssendsyou to prison for hundred years5Z pElC1
 I was half awake and nearly dead with fear, and hardly knew what was say ing. II Irepeat, what wonder is 1t that l told this man that I did those things F' Our conversation I do not remember, but he promised me thatif l. told him l did do 1t, he wonldT do all he could for me when was tried. I told him-for I had heard. enough of the officers talk to know who and what was done to the boys. What I had not heard I denied {. Why did tint man come to me at that frlghten me by saying, as he did, every thing he could to. do soY 4. I, think it is to be fonnd in .this fact, that he knew, and the officers at the station, knew, that my manner and my conversation did not implicate me in, that crime, and, there fore, they resolved to try little strata gem, by representing to me that t would be better for me to say I did do 1t than to be shut up one hundred years. Anything that would be likely to frighten me they resolved to say. Now, it is not singular that I was frightened, or that under their representations ] confessed, is it [ !. No, I do not think il is, and my wonder is that I did not con fess long before Ssi'A1 a~-s 'i'ifezaL
 You will please bear in mind how it was. and under what circumstances did confess. We'll, in the morning ] was taken oyer to the tombs in Boston, and some of those boys from Chelses came over, and they an-except one, and he did after pressing -said | was the boy who had done it to them, and the only way they knew was by my eye. This one who said I wss not the boy, but afterward said I was, was Tracy B. Hayden. as He came into the room where I was, and the officer asked him if was the boy who aidit to them. He said
 Nos itgisnlt : 2 then the officer said, "Look again, and he said "No, am sure he is hot the boy, {" but on being asked thy third time he said :. Yes that is the boy, and the only way I know it is by hisp eye." You will please beal this, in mind-that twice he denied it and aathird time said yes. ; Now, I ask, if that boy. knew who 1t was that did il to him, and could identify him if he saw him, why did he not say was the boy if he thought so, in the first place in stead AofA in the itAird9 It is not toabe found, ni the fact that I concealed my eye, for | could not, as the officers told me to look straight at the boy and directed the boys to my eye :; it is not to be found in that, but in the fact that the boy knew EIExas notthe one,s and hesita ted torsayI was, but on being pressed he said was, for perhaps the boy that did it to him did have an eye like mine and therefore he said was the boy but ons,no other ground. sj9 & 's
 Now it is very singular that those boys cannot identify mo except on ac count of my eye. Not. one of them die or could tell what dress wore or how my voice sounded-in fact, failed tc notice everything that g sharp boy would