The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-19
JESSE PoMERoY.
How the Eoy Kurse eris IA e.

How the Eoy Kur6e eris IA e. i-ath!
Massachusetts, Penitent az.
Probably there is more curiosity concern.
ing the prison career OF Jesse Pomeroy
than any other convict in the institution.
His atrocities are known the world over,
and hundreds make the vain visit to the
prison TO get e sight ut him. Indeed, scarce.
ly q visitor appears here but who asks foI
the privilege, and, strange as it may seem,
the most importune and persistent Of these
are found among the lady visitors. 1t is
no thing for the Warden to DO
importuned for half IN hour at a time by n
delegation of these philanthropic females,
and, finding that their pleadings are useless,
they go of in q rage, probably declaring in
wardly that Pomeroy is a saint and angel in
comparison with General Chamberlain. This
singular phenomenon of q fend and murder
er is even more singular since his incarcern.
tion for life in a lonely cell, than he WINS in
the palnIy days of his atrocities. He has,
in fact, become quite an exemplary young
man, and is evidently determined upon nc
quiring q thoroughly classical education.
He is away by himself in n cell in that part
OF the prison known as the Upper Arch, I"
out Of the sight OF everything and every.
body, and the only sounds which greet his
ears are the whistles of the passing locomo.
tives and rumbling Of the trains. Three
times n day only IS this solitude broken by
the appearance of q keeper with his meals,
and then not a word passes between them.
1t should be added, in qualification, how
ever, that the Chaplain visits him occasion
ally, and also that his mother and brother
are allowed interviews with him every three
months. This is in accordance with the
general rules of the prison, all OF which are
applicable to PoIucroy, with the terrible ex-
ception that his confinement is to be sOlita-
ry during his natural life During the reg
ular working hours he is employed in mix
ing shoe brushes, but in this respect he ia
not the most profitable convict in the pris-
son. He seems to have taken to literature
rather than to the mechanic arts, and
spends much OF his time in the acquisition
OF knowledge. So far as tho English
branches 30 he IS already master. and has
now attacked Latin, French and German,
and is making astonishing progress in all
three OF them. II il were not for the con.
ditions which forbid his mingling with the
rest of the prisoners it would not be n bad
idea to make hin Professor of Ian,
gunges" of the II ltion. He writes n
letter to his mothcI ny week. and receives
one from her rex .trly in return. The
poor woman brings over her communication
every Saturday, and invariably finds ono
awaiting her. The letters which tho young
murderer writes are maryels in the way OF
parental correspondence, and some of his
descriptions of his lonely life are character.
lied by a sadness which is indeed harrow
ing. He never makes any reference to his
crimes, and when QUO. ioned by the officers
about the multitude Of murders and out.
RACES which he has committed, he invaria.
bly, answers that he knows nothing what.
ever about them. He has always shown o
great affection for his mother, and her de-
votion for him has shown her to possess
those natural i~nstincts which are the charm
of pure womanhood. She seems to be ar
exemplary woman in every aspect, never
complaining, but always anxious, and ha,
the coincidence and s'wplthy of every
officer of the prison. De- should indeed
of the whole commuui i,St0a Gi0be.