Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-10
wANTOS DEP2AyIIY.

Cases of Wanton devilishness In chill |
dren Of tender years have of late years |
been startlingly common. Early IN the |
seventies, at Boston, Jesse Pomeroy en- !
ticed little girl into the beltry Of q
church and murdered her by process of
slow torture. He was tried and sentenced |
to the CnarlestoWn penitenti.ry for life. |
The late Wendell Phillips, the philsn
thropist, and number Of Massachusetts
humanitarisns, made strenuous efforts to
secure his pardon, but were unsuccessful.
A few years ago young Pomeroy, now
grown to De man, attempted unsuccess-
fully to kill himself.
At Reading, Penn, on the 10th Of
March, 1885,
sEyKN-YEAR-oLD BOY
named Reuben Briner, scholar in the
Ninth ward school, was discovered by
| City Superintendent Bolett, who pos
sessed 8 remarkable mRnia for tortUring
children and amin Is. The teacher YVES
compelled to keep him sitting on q plat
| form in g chair beside her, and even then
| he once set her dress on fire. While liv-
ing with his parents in Pdilsdelphis he
deliberately set fire to the clothes of his
eighteen-months old baby brother, whose
limos were burned to crisp, while the
young feDd danced with glee and ioyiuliY
told MS parents what he had done. He
was penned in 6 garnet and kept on bread
and water for month, then sent to
Reading, as he expressed the tnten-
ton OF
| CUTTING HIS BROTHERS THROAT
with butcher knife. At Troy, N Y, on
the 4th day of November, 1885, Freddie'
MeAllister, hve-year-old orphan bay,
was pushed intY clay pit by Edward
Townsend a boy of twelve years. AT
the inquest young Townsend testified
that he and young McAllister stole ousof
the orphan asylum election night anG
went up the hill to watch the bonires.
"When W got up the hill," said Towns2
= end, "Freddie was crying, md did not
, want him with me any longer, SO pushed
him down the bank into the clay"
"Did he not cry to you to pull him
out?" asked the attorney.
eyes, he cried, but 1 went on" was
the answer given. without any show OF
regret. ~
"Did you intend to push him doWBs''
! ayes, sir dind't want him anyfong-
err" r
Townsend swore that he returned On
Wednesday to i - (
COVER UP TIE BODY ~ 4
SO that it could not be found. TownseHd
was foiled. s.
A. Milwaukee, August 20. 1889 two
Z boys, five and seven years OF age, sons OF
, & man named Miner, attempted to muir
der the eighteen months-old daughter Of
, reighbor, Rudolph Brown. Toe boys
, showed tlendish hate for the little girl,
1 snd, Selling her, saturated her clothing
with kerosene, set fire to the clothing,
a intending to burn her to desth. Her
a screams of horror attracted the attention
Of neighbors, and the flames were smoth-
+ cred.
Last year, in jersey City, Freddie
Kelley, aged ten, half broiled his four
g year old c0mrade, Tommy Jones, in the
Nun of Keumare's Home Of the Sisters o.
! Peace. While the children were out s.
recess playing in the yard
THE SISTER IN CHARGE
left the school room to call them in
Young RielIey and Tommy Jones were
left alone in the school room. As TIT
l. children were coming up stairs into tn
school room frIghtful screams wer'
heard, and when the school room doo'
" was reached, Freddie was seen holdip.
It down the struggling Tommy on the tol
Of red hot cannon stove. The stow
=. WAS within six feet from the altar.
II handkerchief was stuffed jim the child
le mouth as gag, but he screamed Justify
y The Sister rushed into the room and res
q cued Tommy, who was fsinting wit
) pain and terror.
"a "Why did you do thatf" cried tn
teacher, as she gathered the moanin
child in her arms.
THE DoGGED, sULLEN LOOK
csme back to the face of the vicious boy
= The case was reported to the police, an
ay when Judge Stilsing asked Freddie: "Di
to you burn Tommy in the stoVe2" he re
an piled, eyes, sir"
er "Why did you want to burn that poe
's little fellow?"
~ az dunno"
~ 4! Blackstone, In his "Commentarles,
no relates the case of 8 six-year-old Chi
nc who killed playmate, and, as he hid =
~ body, the court held that the boy kfA
In better, was conscious that ne WAS dbl
mt wrong, and he wss punished.