The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-22

cling to him. His sallow cheeks may
nave gained an added pallor, a few pounds
nave been added to his lanky five feet
nine, but a thin mustache Is the principal
thing that distinguishes the Charlestown
boy from the Charlestown convict. HIS
disposition has not improved much under
discipline. He has read and studied enough
to be learned man, and has suffered
enough to be wise one, but he Is stil
rebellious, still restless, unable TO ac-
cept the inevitable as final.
His mind Is alert and keen and his gem
eral health good. Physically he seems TO
nave become accllmated TO his strange
life, He was the first person in the state
70 be sentenced to solitary confinement
Tor life. He was first sentenced to be
hanged but his extreme youth and the
evidence that he was born with n ten
dency to be cruel Influenced Gov CASTOR
70 commute the sentence. There was n
LOUD protest against this show of Glenn
ency. The whole country had been shock
ed at the peculiar atrocity of his crime
He cut the throat of little Kttie Curran
mothers house. No trace of her could be
round, but on April %, 1874, the body or
4,year-old Horace Mllen was found in
the marshes in South Boston, where Pom
eroy had tied him to a stake and tlyen
had stabbed him to death The last crime
was traced to this murderer, and he then
confessed TO killing the Curran girl. Both
bodies were shockingly mutilated. When
asked why he killed the Millen boy, he
said II don't know; something told me
When you started Off to the fats dii
you intend to kill him?" he was aske1
don't know" he replied. II think
meant to stick a knife into him ldit /
him or not"
Pomeroy was first sent to prison at
Concord, and there made several sensa-
tional attempts to escape. He was then
transferred to Charlestown, and when
the prison gates closed behind him they
smut him from the sight of the sun for
ever He was placed In a cell in the
arch of the CHERRY HIP block, where
turbulent prisoners are confined for long
er or shorter periods. He has q good
sized room, 16xlS feet with two chinL :
in the room which admit daylight His
bed Is comfortable one, and the entire
room Is neat and orderly. He himself ia
quite careful of his personal appearance
and has the services of a barber 20 keef,
him looking well He tries various ex-
periments with his beard, but his mus
tache he wears constantly.
But he is always plotting TO escape
His ingenuity in getting and hiding things
which can assist him in digging up the
floors and walls OF his cell is marvellous
No one sees him except his mother broth
er, a young niece and the prison officials
yet the most surprising things are found
in his possession In 1887 he made a say
out of a piece of steel and cut off the
bars Of his cell. He in some way causnI
an explosion of gas and was knocked
unconscious or he might have reached
the corridor. -Four years ago he made
another saw and cut off the legs of his
iron bedstead and showed back the bolt
!
the corridor before he was discovered
A drill and saw were found In his cell
He has times now or picking at the
walls and floors but it Is believed that he
does it more to annoy the officers than
because he has any hope Of escaping He
does not ask many favors. He would
like TO go in and out with the rest Of the
men who work in the various shops. He
is not ambitious to work, and what he
does is voluntary. He IS given rattan
chairs to wind, but he only does about six
a week. where other "solitaries" in the
same corridor do forty.
Most of his time Is spent in reading and
study. He can speak three languages and
knows a great deal of history. He is very
sensitive as to what the newspapers say
about him, though he never is allowed TO
read them. His mother tells him Of it, and
it is for her sake that he cares Really,
he seems very fond of her, and she is the
one person who has never wavered IN her
devotion to him. His father is living, but
has never come to the prison. His brother
has not been there for several years, but
his mother. with true affection. comes
every two months-as often as the law al
lows--to visit him. Shut in as he Is he has
a wonderful knowledge Of what is going
on in the prison. His hearing Is abnor-
mally acute