The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-10
SKINNED THE KITTEN.
Jessie POmerOy Continued His Fiend-
iSh Deeds in Prison.

Strange Freak of Crime-After Twenty
Years Incarceration He Is inter-
viewed-Youthful Monster Who Once
Startled the World Is Still in soli-
tary Hopes for Pardon.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Boston, Mass, June 3.-Jesse Pomeroy,
phenomenal criminal even in this age of
multlform crime whose fendish deeds
were startingly distinct in method and
enormity. and who has been confined in
cell in the state prison for a score of
years, shut from the view even of his fell
low men, with the exception of his
keeper. has been interviewed Born and
bred within mile of the place of his con-
fnement, he lived there until he was Is
years old. when he beat and tortured chill
dren, outraged six nearly to the point of
death, and then proceeded to murder.
He would first get his victims in some
helpless condition, usually tied to tree or
post. He would then cut their flesh into
small strips and stab them in every man
ner and place conceivable. Then, not
content with this torture, he would pour
sea water over them. After a time he
them.
1t was a desire to see blood over which
he had no con troll and which came to him
from birth that moved him. His father
worked at the slaughter house at
Brighton. Each day his mother would
carry her husbands dinner to him and
stand for hours and watch them kill cat
tie, hogs and sheep. Some years after
Pomeroy had been sentenced the warden
of the states prison gave him small
kitten hoping tn thus provide him com
panion that would brighten and help to
shorten long hours. Pomeroy had the kit
ten just one week, when one morning on
entering the cell, the guard found that
Pomeroy had skinned the little animal
alive. Since then he has been allowed
absolutely nothing. Pomeroys sentence
of death was committed TO life imprison-
ment on the condition that he should not
be allowed to work with the other prison
ers or even see human face other than
that of his keeper and his mother, she
being allowed to see him only at long in
terVals.
HIS ISOLATION rs COMPLETE.
To add further TO his punishment and
isolation his cell door was blocked with
granite. thereby cutting of even the view
of the cell corridor, and audience with
him could only be gained through an
other cell, which was kept vacant and
used for this purpose only In all these
twenty years the conditions have been
carried out. The reporter was the first
outsider that Pomeroy had seen for years,
that is, barring his mother and the state
officials.
Have you made up your mind to take
your punishment and utter no com
plaint" was asked of Pomeroy.
II don't complain" came between his
lips. 1T does no good | have read lots,
but just now don't My eyes trouble me
considerable of late. This one" lifting
his hand to his bad eye, the one which is
marked, 81 can see but little with Then
again the light is so bad that ! can't read
much"
For fully five minutes Pomeroy then
talked without interruption. He told
how he had pleaded with the warden OF
the prison 10 allow him 10 have light in
his cell in order that he might read, but
that official would not grant him this, he