The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-14
Jesse Polneroy Continues His
Deeds in Prison.
.Siter Twenty Years Incarceration lie is
Interviewed.


2endish deeds were startling ly
distinct in method and enormity,
and who has bean confined in q cell
il the state PRISON for score of
years, shut from the viey even of
his fellow. men, with the exception
of his keeper, mas been interviewed,
gays Boston special to the Chicago
Inter Ocean Born and bred within
A mile of his nfinement, he lived
there until he was Is years
Did, when be beat and
tortured children, outraged six nearly
20 the point Of death, and then pro.
seeded to murder He would first
get his victims in some helpless con.
1ition, usually tied to tree or post.
lie would then cut their flesh into
small strips al d stab them in every
manner ard place conceivable.
Then, not content with this torture,
ne would pour fes water over them.
After time he would finish his
iiendish work by killing them.
1t was desire to see blood over
which he had no control and which
came to him from birth that moved
him. His father worked az the
slaughter house at Brighton. Each
day his mother would carry her
husbands dinner to hun and stand
for hours and watch them kill cat,lt,
hogs ard sheep. Some years after
Pomeroy had been sentenced the
warden of the states prison gave
him small kitten, hoping to thus
provide him companion that would
-hrightau aad help a to-. shorten
Long hours. Pomeroy had the kit
ten just one week, when one morn
ing, on entering the cell, the guard
found that Pomeroy had skinned the
little animal alive. Since then he
has been allowed absolutely nothing.
Pomeroy's sentence of death was
committed to life imprisonment on
The condition that he should not be
allowed to work with the other pris.
Oners, or even see a human face
other than that Of his keeper and his
mother, she being allowed to zee
him only at long intervals.
HIS ISOLATION is COMPLETE.
To add further to his punishment
and isolation his cell door was block
ed with granite, thereby cutting off
even the view of the cell corridor,
and audience with him could only
be gained through another 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
was asked of Pomeroy.
81 don't complain" came be.
tween his lips. cit does no good:
I have read lots, but just now l
don't. My eyes trouble consid era.
Bile of late. This one," lifting his
b and to his bad eye, the one which
10 marked, 81 can see but little
with. Then again the light is 80
b d that l can't real much. y
For fully five minutes Pomeroy
y en- talked without interruption.
H. told how he had pleaded with
he wsrden of the prison to allow
4 u to have light in his cell in
Z order that he might read, but that
,fticial would not grant him this, he
I'D. CHANGING into the other cell |
nto which his door leads, and point
NJ his finger to solitary gas jet,
lie exclaimed; "There, that ia all
h. light they will give me. It's a
b me-"
Pomeroy told how when he found
book that was interesting he
uld sit on the floor of his cell,
lose up to the iron bars in the door,
nd strain his eyes in his at.
,mpt to read. Time aud time
9 sin, he complained, the light was
,rned very low and he was OBJ.
ged to throw his book to a corner
his cell. He spoke with earnest.
,s,, and as if the Off ,ials had no