The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-14

and supplemented with some WIRE
no that n obtained while doing little
no | desuja rk at brush making.
- Thfx he cleVerly attached to one
of th9s and dragged it out. Then he
was A. get at the othef course OF
!. stoneYry night he dragged the rock
* out aarked away on the outer wall.
e. In th4y hours he pushed the rock
i. I back alugged the cracks with bread
. made kok like mortar They spied
upon lind discovered his work. Then
! he Wit into anJther cell in the same
tier. aEre he nude one of the most
sSons sStempI1 az Sseape b on ce EgG snd
. the cort vas msae of granite blocks.
A gas man aloni the wall on the out
side. ansssse nOped that it lay just
| on the HhetWeeHtwo stones.
That WtsneIgh pr him. a plot leaped
into his ~ at oce. He began TO dig
through kwall etween the stones to-
ward theks pipe After an amount OF
toll which one lat a prisoner can think
Of withofYeariess he made crevice
With Ut car he must have worked
so that ihe list nights, when he was
nearly tlieh ne wall no flake of mortar
| should 4 upo the floor! Suppose that
he shoumiss the pipe altogether, and
make afein tie wall that would Instant
" be dDVerli.
| Well strIck his mark exactly Then,
with al Of wire sharpened at the end,
| he praded' o bore into the pipe. Hav-
| ing ma a. hle, he plugged il, and then
| he turf to mother part of the scheme.
| In a oler OF the cell, on the outer wall,
he loohed a mixture of chewed newspa-
per al bread which hardens as it dries
until rs amlst as firm as the clay in
pipe made something that looked like
Sigan sticks of mac6roni.
VIII ali WIS ready. he took the plug
out okhe gasppe, and fitted TO the hole
one 1.-THE tules that he had made. This
he ~ so qufkly and so neatly that no
Iot Il "A a a
arcf the difficulty of that task when
thu man was working through a crevice
sqircelS hal an inch wide and about i1f-
ten INDIES heep
HAWK made the joint between the gas
tFpe am the tube of bread and paper he
plugged the end of the tube and closed
the creioe with a soap counterfeit of ce-
weekshnd weeks.
PonIroy's .dea in all this was to lead
the g$ across the cell by means of many
papera and bread tubes Joined together,
and ten explode it in the excavation IN
he wall, expecting that the wall would
Dc blkVn out.
Meanwhile he had cut the bars in his
ell dor, and could get into the corridor
my tine that he wanted to do so: Just
vhathappcned in the case no one Will ever
NOV. 1t seems sure that Pomeroy IN
enqed TO explode the gas at night, but IL
vent off at l o'clock in the afternoon.
PROBABLY Pomeroy was experimenting.
lie had covered the CRATE of his door with
blanket in order to prevent the escape
the gas.
There was a tremendous explosion, and
omeroy was in the cell when it took place.
lie was found unconscious. His appa-
titus was wrecked, but it was easy to see
hat il had been.
The wall was not blown out. The force
the explosion acted upward, and blew
great stone out of the floor of the hospi-
Poneroy was restored to consciousness,
ut he was nearly blind for nearly TWO
eeks. lie would not tell anything about
His sight was not perfect at any time.
is right eye is partially covered by
hite patch caused by an abcess OF the
)rnea when he was very young. the
mil. He can see dimly with that eye;
re other is normal, or nearly so. The
9fect mentioned won him the name OF
le ''white-eYed boy IT was an import
nj element in his capture.
one of Pomeroy's most notable charac-
ristics is his nfleXible obstinacy. lie IS
ways discovering that some supposed
ght of his is encroached upon, ana when
lch an idea gets into ms mlnd ne VIII
ish il to the last extremity. On one oc-
lsion he made up his mind that the
rison authorities had no right 10 take
m out of his cell and give him bath
the room PROVIDED 1or tnaI pul3ose;
D he positively refused to take the usual
riday bath,
1t was not that he objected TO bathing,
n cleanliness is one of his very rev mer-
$. He said simply that he was con-
emned to solitary confinement in cell,
nd that nobody could take him out of it
ithout his permission. There is pecu-
arity in the wording of the sentence
hich lends some faint support 10 ms
intention, but of course, the point itself
as manifestly observed. However, he
ouldn't take his Friday bath. SO the
arden condemned him to the dark cell
n INSTRUMENTATION.
The laws of the state provide that a
ark cell and bread-and-water diet can
; inflicted upon a prisoner for not longer
ian ten consecutive days, after Wmch
2 must be given light and the ordinary
rison bath for period or tWenty-Iour
ours Six days in a dark cell IS long
me for any prisoner to stand II. Most
them weaken almost Immediately.
omeroy stood his first ten days without
though his health health Sunefeuif o aS
ours respite he was ready TO go back
gain rather than yield.
At the end of five days more his condi-
on was such that the prison physician
Z could scarcely stand, and his body was
)vered with a cold. profuse persplration'
ut his resolution was as firm as ever.
The prison doctor consulted the warden.
he warden was in doubt. IL was test
,se If Pomeroy had his way every priS-
1eI- in the institution would know of it,
nd ali the bad men" would begin to dis
oev orders recklessly. So the prison doc
N wrote to Gov Robinson. who replied
a letter a good deal like Cleveland's
esSage on Cuba.
IL said that a fearful state of affairs ex-
ted: that the interests of discipline must
> safeguarded: that the great cause of
umanity and mercy must not suffer, and.
lat such being the case. the doctor would
atter do the best thing that occurred TO
i'm. At the very end the governor sug-
r. Sawin welcomed the idea. But Pome-
" would not permit the second doctor
, examine him, and the case seemed to
; lust as bad as ever The upshot of IL
as that Pomeroy endured twenty-six
avs in the dark CELIA period almost un-
card of He would not have yielded even
len. but the doctor. who is very shrewd,
icceeded in persuading him. The chances
re that II he had not hoped to gain some
ling he would have endured this CHASTITY
lnishment till it killed him or his cap
,rs Welded AS a matter of fact, such is
Ne strength OF his constitution that his
ealth was as good as ever in a day or
vo.
The famous criminals only visitor now
his mother who has been faithful to
i'm throughout Jesse always treats her
ndly, and seems glad to see her. She is
ow about 50 years old, but is I'm good
ealth and active. She conducts a little
lsiness. but It would be a cruelty TO say
here. The address Is never published
ithout causing her annoyance from the
lie curious or the professionally sympa-
ietic.
A SUGAR INQUIRY.
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