The herald., 1895-12-15

| upon except from reformatory stand
point. Jacob Beresheim supplies fer.
tile field for study,for in years to come
he will be regarded as a criminal won.
der.
For 14-year-old boy to engage with
full grown man in a death struggle ia
of itself out of the ordinary. The av-
erage boy would have quailed before
such an encounter, but Beresheim is a
hard type of the vicious New York ga
min. With hatchet in one hand he
kept cutting away at his antagonist
until the latter stumbled and fell. An.
other blow on the head to keep him
quiet, and the boy caught up knife,
with which he almost severed the head
from the body.
Beresheim since his incarceration
has shown no signs of remorse. He has
not enough intelligence to feel the
prickings of conscience, possessing
only the animal instinct of self-preser-
vation and the hunger for revenge.
HIS PROBABLE FATE
What the fate of the boy will be is
conjecturaI. He is too young for the
death chair, and too wicked for the re-
formatory. Sing Sing prison with it's
hundreds of hardened convicts seems
the only place for him, but if he is sent
there great howl will go up from the
band of reformers who watch over
cases of his kind.
Beresheim is one type of the child
criminal. Ths two boys in a suburb Of
London who some two months ago
killed their mother 80 that they might
obtain possession of her pocketbook
and spend the money as they pleased
represent another type. They had
been nicely reared, but their minds
we're poisoned by cheap literature.
They fessted and lived in the same
house with their mothers body for
several days before the neighbors dis
covered the tragedy.
It may be that young Beresheim will
be dealt with the same as Jesse Pome-
roy, who heads the list of American
child criminals. For twenty years he
has been in solitary confinement in the
Massachusetts State prison, and will
probably end his days there. Beres-
helm was made a murderer by accident,
but POmeroy was murderer by
choice.
POMEROY A FIEND.
Pomeroy was Is years old when he
became the most noted murderer of
the day. At IL years he started his
Grim inal career by torturing seven
little children. He would hold the
hands of small boy or girl on the top
of hot stove or would thrust knife
into a baby to see it suffer. Every
possible effort was made to reform
him, but it was useless. When asked
why he perpetrated these tortures he
would say: 81 couldn't help it. Some
thing told me to do it," He was placed
in reformatory and released after
term of seventeen months. During
that time he had behaved himself.
The crime which led to his life sen-
A clam digger at his work on the
marshes on the shore of Dorchester
bay came upon the body of little Hor-
ace Millen, mere child, gashed as If
by the knives of tribe of cannibals.
The throat was cut from ear to ear,
so that the head was almost severed
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than twenty-five stab wounds upon the
breast and over the heart, and In other
portions of the body we're mutilations
too horrible to mention.
In about an hour after the discovery,
Edward Fl Savage, then chief of police
of Boston, remarked to one of the half
dozen city hall detectives who were in
consultation with him:
"It looks like the action Of mental
ly or morally deranged person. Now,
If that Jesse Pomeroy we're out of pris-
on, should say that he committed this
murder"
The fact that Pomeroy was at liberty
was at once recalled to the chiefs at
tention. and within q few minutes he
was arrested at the home of his mother,
who kept little store in South Bos-
ton.
Circumstantial evidence was immedi-
ately found in abundance. A break in
one of his shoes corresponded to the
in the march mud, and his
trousers bore mud of recent date-in-
msrsh and not street mud.
After making this examination at the
station house, the officers took the pris-
oner to the undertaker's, stopping in