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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-06
His Horrible Crime.

Bad as Pomeroy's crimes were II
Is easy to trace their causes TO in
sane impulse For weeks he would go
about his daily life as otEer boys Of
his age and then suddenly the i'm
pulse would seize him and lrresistibIy
he would commit hideous crime.
His mania developed about Christ
mas time OF the year 1871. Pomeroy
was then twelve years If age 1t was
Il day after Christmas of that year
that boy named Paine, living in
Chelsea. was found unconscious. tied
10 beam on Powder Horn Hill. HIS
entirely nude body was covered by
welts, and when he recovered all the
Information he could give was that he
had met an older boy who hae led him
AWAY from the public street, and had
then, in spite Of his feeble protests.
Ltripped him and beaten him with a
ripe.
Ssfore the excitement Of this assault
had died away another boy named
Tracy Hayden was found tied 10 a
Eoard In much the same manner and
had been severely beaten
For nearly three months the police
tried their utmost to locate the re-
eponsible party.-but in vain. Then one
day in early July a fye-year-old bow
named Balch returned in mysteries to
hts home in South Boston. He had
been lured to a lonely spot by an older
boy and beaten until ne tainted. His
assailant had then taken him to a saIt
creek and bathed his wounds. Tvo
months later Robert Gould. another
small boy. was found stripped and tied
II a telegraph pole. IIis head was
badly cut and his body covered with
welts.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-06
Prepares Pies for Release.

To the lone prisoner one day is like
another and from morning until night,
season after season. he reads the books
Of the prison library or arranges elsb-
crate pleas for clomency 70 the cold,
needless world. but always with the
same result-failure.
Despite the solemn light and his
handicap. Of having only one eye, Pom
eroy manages 20 get IN an immense
amount OF study, snd he has familiar
lied himself with science and languages
and practices penmanship at odd inter
walls He is allowed 70 write a letter &
month and to see a caller. his mother.
in the same time.
The only pet which he has ever had
was a canary bird which he cherished
highly until II died and with It he
shared the prison food. each morning
placing q cup Of water IN the cell
window for the bird to battle IN.
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existence. Few stop 20 consider the
awful doom which public indignation
placed upon the youthful degenerate
when a mere lad thirty-one years ago.
1t was against a fiendish newsboy
and his horrible crimes that the pub
lie steeled their hearts long ago in
the early seventies. But In Pomeroy's
cell. those who know. him best, and
they are but few. say there is neither
boy nor hend. Behind his grated
door. shut whenever q casual visitor
or prisoner is guided by. Is a mature
man Of forty-seven years. a mono
maniac, whose only concern is prepar-
ing papers for the courts OF the COVER
nor asking for pardon or release.
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Attempts Escape.

Several times Pomeroy has attempt
ed 70 escape and has. In times past
caused his keepers much anxiety.
With the tools furnished him for work
and from necessary articles Of cell
equipment he has fashioned rude i'm
plements with which he has tried 70
make his way 10 freedom. His most
desperate attempt was IN the year 1881.
when he used the Illuminating gas OF
his cell 20 create an explosion. The
cell was wrecked and Pomeroy was
nearly killed since that time he has
given over all efforts TO gain ltbs=eS
by force.
Even should he gain the outer yard
OF the prison he would be confronted
with a twenty-two-foOt wall which he
would have 70 scale without the aid
OF a ladder. during which time he
would be exposed TO the rife tire OF
the guards, who day and night pace
the iron-railed walk on the prison
walls.
to attend divine service, and lately
has become more Of recluse than
ever His mania for justice, strange
and misconceiyed as IL must be, Is
the KEYNOTE Of his mental state, his
religion. and his attitude toward the
world. and he SCOTS at creeds-
So. unable 10 believe that the deeds
a. the boy were the deeds Of his viii.
he Society for the Promotion OF
minal Anthropology says that to
nroiong his torture Is inhuma3, and
az least justice should temper his
future existence by allowing him to
see his fellow-man, to breathe the air
OF the outer prison yard, and mingle
with the limited world which moves
within the walls Of the grim State
fort -ess at Charlestown.
X IS the contention OF the society
that had Pomeroy committed the
crimes for which he is being punished
today he would be saved to the pub
lie: hat. treated by modern methods.
lis abnormal impulses could have
ueen cured, and the vindic5iveness
whiel has resulted in HIS years OF
SLOW torture would. by ruling OF JUS
tice, be eliminated, and Pomerov
t2ad have Oeeu placed in car. af
r1Spital-
This is a concrete Illustration
;hc work of the society,"" said the
Rev Frederick II. Gle, secretary OF
the soci~ty, to a Times representative.
ar VIC Will not abandon our Efforts
10 secure clemency for Jesse Pomeroy."
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Only Survivor.

Pomeroy is a survival The judges
who tried him. the attorney general
and district attorney who prosecuted
him. and the governor who spared his
life on account Of his extreme youth
all are dead many years New gov
ernors nave been opportuned to eff
iect his release, new keepers year
after year, becoming responsible for
his care, have inherited from their
predecessors traditions regarding him.
To the public at large he is an ogre
q dream Of horror. and the officials
monopolize the personal facts OF his
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Jesse PomeroJ. Bowed Be
meath the Specters of Isola-
ton and Death.

death-the complete isolation from his
fellow-men.
Students Of criminoiogy assert that
his long night in the dismal cell has
changed his mania, that the mania for
release has starved the OILS one to
death long. long ago.
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Attempts to Erect Relief.

The American Society for the
Promotion Of Criminal Anthro-
pology has taken up the work of
attempting to secure a relief of
the torture of solitary confinement
which Pomeroy has suffered for a
generation, and although Governor
Child has refused 10 even send the
petition to his council and has dis
missed the subject from the Off
cial calendar by a letter of regret
to the society, further attempts
will be made to effect a more hu-
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Child slayer's Brutality When Mere Lad.

manitariam punishment for the
famous prisoner, an alienation of
the brutal sentence passed upon
him when public Indignation, al
ways headstrong, paved the way
for the cruel mandate that as long
as life lasted the boy Pomeroy
should live ostracised from the
world in a prison tomb.
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~ BOARDING this extraordinary
- character against whom public
Indignation has been so con-
tinuously bitter. the present
generation Is little familiar. II is only
when his pleas for clemency by dlnt
Of almost superhuman persistency find
their way from HIS prison home TO the
outer world. that the public awakes to
the fact that he is a living being. Then
once more come the revivals Of his
0oyhood cruelties. and In due time
interest flags only 10 be reawakened
as another EFFORT is made for some
liberty.
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Jesse Pomezoy
Since BoyAood
in Solitary Con
fin EN- emf for
Atrocities Impair
aHeLed, Send S
Forth a Pit1tul
Plea for human
ConlpanionShip.

=" HIS is the story of a life
prisoner who is fighting
for more than liberty,
the story of Jesse Pom
eroy, who for over thirty
years has been In solitary con-
hnement, who does not asI: that
he may walk through the green
fields or the busy marts but rather
that he may hear the music Of the
human voice and behold once mo-e
the face Of his brother man.
For many years Jesse Pomeroy.
who has occupied a solitary cell on
the famous Cherry Hill in the
Massachusetts State prison at
Charlestown, has sought over and
over again to secure a pardon, until
now he realizes that the liberty
Of the prison corridors and the
prison workshop are what his soul
most Graves.
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only TO Win the
'Libeztp" of the
Prison Work
shop, He Carries
on His Weary
Battle against
RebWandAgarn
Rebuff.

was a fatal mistake for hardly had
ne been free three months, when the
overwhelming impulse OF his mania
caused him TO kill and bury In the
cellar OF his fathers store a fve-ycar-
old girl
On the following April p. the black
est day in his history. he was arrested
charged with the atrocious slaughter
Of hve-year-Old boy on the lonely
south Boston marshes. In September
he was convicted. and sentenced to
be hanged. He was not yet fifteen
years old, yet the supreme court with
cut avail reviewed his defense Of IN
sanity GOyornOr Rice. however, com
muted the sentence to solitary con-
hnement for life.
This Is one Of the points which the
Society for the Promotion OF Criminal
Anthropology viii base their conten-
ton upon. as they claim that there
Is not a law IN the Commonwealth
which allows a court or governor to
sentence a man to solitary conhne-
ment for more than twenty DAYS al q
time.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14
LATE NEWS FROM YOUR OLD HOME STATE
WEST VIRGINIA

NEW MARTINSVILLD, w. Va. Dec.
12.-While Jacob F. DeGeorge, a small
son of Ross DeGeorge, was eating En-
glish walnuts. piece of shell lodged in
his throat and he choked to death.
NEW CUMBERLAND-Dec he
was hired to come here and liberate
prisoners in the county jail. l.. M. Jones
OF Allegheny. when given a preliminary
hearing ia the court of Justice Bradley,
threw the crowded court room into ex-
element. Jones was wounded by Sheriff
Wilkin in his effort to escape arrest
when detected prowling about the jail.
He waived hearing and was bound over
to await the action of the grand jury.
GRAFTON-After a preliminary hear
ing Jake Hill of Belington was remand
ed to Jail to await the action of the grand
jury on the charge of having murdered
James Lebo, a Cherokee Indian, en-
ployed at the latter place. After rob-
bing the Indian of a cum now estimated
at nearly $1,000. the accused, 1t Is said,
hid his body in the river bed nearby to
cover up the crime.
MARTINSBURG-Foll an inquest
into the wreck of the st. Louis-New York
express train on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad near here, in which three per-
sons were killed and eleven injured, the
coroners jury today found Henry Hill,
Frank D. Powell and ]. w. Edwards re-
sponsible Hill and Powell were con-
ductor and hagman of a freight train
which collided with another freight train,
of which Edwards was engineer. just as
the express train was passing, the de-
rallied freight cars plunging across to the
passenger tracks. It was testified that
Conductor Hill was asleep and Flagman
Powell was with him when the freight
trains met in a rear-end collision. In
stead of having gone back to flag the
other train. Warrants have been issued
for the arrest of all three.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14
NEW JERSEY

VINDLAND, N. j., Dec. 13-Myron J.
Kimball, president of the Vineland Ma
tional bank, had. his pocket picked while
the book card case and railroad ticket
through the mail, keeping the cash and
what car tickets he could use.
TRENTON-Govern Stokes will prob
ably name Senator Edward S. Lee as
county clerk of Atlantic. to fill the unex-
pired term of the late County Clerk
Lewis p. Scott, although Senator -elect
Wilson is not in accord with this plan.
Congressman Gardner and Senator Lee
called on the governor this afternoon to
discuss the situation. The appointment
will probably be made tomorrow, soon
after the funeral Of Mr.. Scott.
MOUNT HOLLY-The smallest estate
ever passed through the surrogates
office in the county has just been settled.
1t was that of Joanna Hahle of Riverside,
which amounted to $12. and which she
had on deposit in the Riverside National
bank.
CALDWELL-Abraham Johnson's Sc
cret of how he has succeeded in catching
catfish from the Passaic river when the
other fishermen could not get any is out
Johnson was seen to pull up from the
depths Of the water a length of stove
pipe, one end of which was closed From
the pipe he extracted two catfish. Cat
fish," johnson said. don't like daylight
preferring the darkest holes they can find
l furnish them with dark holes to hide
in. that's ans;.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14
MAINE PEOPLE MEET AND
ENJOY MONTHLY SOCIAL

A musical and literary program was
given under the auspices of the Pine Tree
State association last night in Burbank
hall.
1t was a regular monthly gathering
and there were about 200 Maine people
and their friends present
The following program was rendered:
Cornet solo, l.. Mayo, accompanied on
the piano b. Lieut. ]. e. Bailey; vocal
solo, Mrs. e. e. Smith; violin solo, Viana
Duane; recitation, Elsie Behymer; in
strumental selection, Polytechnic Man.
dolin club; piano solo, Cadet H. Fasig;
recitation, Nina Hutchinson; instru-
mental selection, Polytechnic Mandolin
club.
At the close of the program light re-
freshments were served, after which
dancing was INDUCED in until a late
hour.
The next meeting will be held on the
night of January II, at which time "Bos-
ton baked beans will be the basic feature
of the refreshments.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14
KENTUCKY


Kentuc xians are farfamed for their
hospitality. Those who come from Hen
derson are particularly so. Henderson
ians in and around Los Angeles VIII
gather at their semi-annual basket pic
mic at the Mesa Alta rancho. Sierra
Madre, next Sunday. Already many
plans have Jeen made and these plans
include many good things to eat Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Gregory of the rancho
are we'll known to large number OF
Southern California people. They have
extended cordial invitations to all Hen
derson people to visit the Sierra Madre
estate Sunday.
GEORGETOWN. KY, Dec. Estate
Senator Watson testified in the trial OF
Caleb Powers that he saw four armed
men in plain clothes in the door of the
executive building while Goebels body
was being carried from the statehouse
grounds. The witness said that 'Tay-
lor's soldiers" who were armed, took
possession of the statehouse grounds
few minutes after the shooting, as II py
preconcerted action.
PADUCAH-Capt Edwin Farley, state
treasurer-elect, announced that II. b.
James, cashier of the Farmers and
Merchants bank at Leitchfeld, Grayson
county, had been appointed hrst assistant
treasurer.
H. P. Dunn of Paducah, the original
appointee, declined because he preferred
to remain in this city.
MAYFIELD-The Reggie here has COM
menced buying up the 1907 crop Of Graves
county tobacco, and a gang of men are
putting up some ten hogsheads per day
Within a few days, as the crop begins to
come In more fully, twenty-five to thirty
hogsheads will be the output.
COvINGTON-After biting four per-
sons, dog, supposed to be afflicted with
hydrophobia, was pursued by armed men
on horseback in Boone county and killed
at Petersburg. The dog, In its mad trip,
passed through the towns of Erlanger,
Walton. Hebron and Florence.
FULTON-Arthur Adams, aged eigh-
teen years, son of L. Adams, well
known farmer of this section, was found
dead in a deep mud hole in the road
about one mile from his home. The boy
had been driving a two-horse wagon and
it is supposed that he fell into the hole
and was so stunned that he drowned.
sHARPSBURG-Mrs. Sarah Bridges,
aged seventy years, died at her home
near Stoops, a few miles south OF this
place, after an illness of several months
duration.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14

BURLINGTON, VT, Dec. 13.-An un-
official report has reached here that ther-
mometers in Enosburg Falls registered
IA degrees below zero early this month.
RUTLAND-Josiah Burton Hollister.
the ex-mayor of Rutland and one of the
pioneers in Vermonts marble industry,
died at his home of cancer of the throat.
He had been identified with the marble
business continuously from 1866 up to
three years ago, when he retired. With
others, Mr.. Hollister failed in 1888, but
at the age of 50 began business anew and
succeeded by sheer pluck In competition
with such companies as Senator Proc
tors Vermont Marble company.
MoNTPELIER-A demand for a new
scale of wages has been filed by the
Granite Cutters union and various other
unions connected with the granite in
dustry in this city and Barre. 1t Is pro-
posed that the new schedule shall take
the place of the present agreement with
the manufacturers which will expire
March 1, 1908. About 1000 workmen in the
two cities are interested In the PROPOSE
tion. The cutters, polishers and sharp
eners ask for 40 cents an hours.
RUTLAND-Masons of the grand lodge
of Vermont gathered here from all over
the state to attend the funeral at the
Masonic temple of Hiram H. Howe, who
committed suici1e while in a At of mel
ancholia. The Rev. Henry l.. Ballou of
Chester, grand senior warden, was the
officiating clergyman.
Mr.. Howe was formerly grand Junior
deacon, and Masonic organizations from
all over Vermont sent floral tributes. The
remains lay in state for an hour under
guard of knights Templar. who acted as
escort to the cemetery, where the
Masonic ritual was observed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14
RHODE ISLAND

WOON SOCKET, r. l., Dec. 13.-A
strange miscarriage of justice has come
to light A few night ago big Indian,
a sign in front of a cigar store, was found
tipped over and smashed into several
pieces. The police arrested John Nc
Nance, and when closely questioned by
the police, so closely, he says, that he
was threatened, he said he did it, and
got nine months. Another man then
confessed and McNamee is free. The
guilty man has not been arrested, nor is
it likely that he will be, as he Is mem
ber of a wealthy and prominent family.
Full settlement has been mde with the
owner of tt Indian, and McNamee is to
receive :. neat sum.
BRISTOL-The factory of the National
India Rubber company here, employing
400 hards will shut down December 13,
but will resume work January 1.
NEwPORT-Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who
last month gave the Newport Young
Mems Christian association 100000 for a
new home as a memorial OF his father,
the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, has given
st. Mary's Protestant Episcopal church
at Portsmouth $4,000.
PROVIDENCE-Mr James c. Fill
more, who was shot by her husband. died
at the Rhode Island hospital. The trage-
dy was enacred at the Fillmore home on
Burnett street, in the Elmwood district
of the city. Mrs. Fillmore received a
bullet wound in the abdomen. Fillmore
then killed himself. Domestic troubles
are said to have furnished the cause,
Mrs. Fillmore having brought suit for
divorce against her husband after an
estrange- tent lasting some months.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14
MICHIGAN

DETROIT, Mich. Dec. 13.-There is ex-
cellent authority for the statement that
Governor Warner has rendered the office
of state treasurer to former Governor
Johr T. Rich, who about a year ago re-
tired from the office of collector OF Gus
toms at Detroit. This is the first pub
lished intimation of the resignation Of
State Treasurer Frank P. Glazier OF
Chelsea, whose financial difficulties
caused the closing of the Chelsea Saw
ings bank at Chelsea Monday.
YPSILANTI-Foied by his political op-
ponerts in his plans to boom the city,
and despondent because his favorite pro-
iects came to naught, Mayor John H..
Van Fossen committed suicide by shoot
ing A number of years ago he was an
inmate of an asylum for a year, and 1t
is thought his repeated defeats brought
on a recurrence of his mental troubles.
Mayor Van Fossen was 40 years old.
ADRIAN-Dr. Artemis o. Wotring,
aged 40 years, was instantly killed and
several others were injured by the ex-
plosion of gas plant at his home in
ogden Center last night. Miss Pink Wot-
ring, the doctors daughter. and several
friends whom she was entertaining were
driven out onto the porch by gas fumes
when something went wrong with the
gas plant in the cellar. DR.. Wotring
started to remedy the trouble. He had
scarcely reached the cellar, however,
when a terrific explosion practically
wrecked the house. Among the injured.
none of whom was seriously hurt, were
Miss Ruth Crane of West Virginia and
Miss Elsie Lyon of Cleveland, o.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14
MINNESOTA

ST. PAUL. Dec. 13.-The Pioneer Press
company of st. Paul filed articles of in
corporation with the secretary of state.
The capital stock is $1,000 The reincor-
poration of the company was necessary
as the original charter had expired.
A committeer representing the Baptist
Young Peoples union of st. Paul made a
formal demand on the police commission
that the state law forbidding the sale OF
liquor after II p. m. be enforced. The
commission replied that for the present
it would confne its efforts to the en-
forcement of the city ordinances forbid
ding the sale of liquor after midnight and
on Sundays.
MINNEAPOLIS-Mrs. Anna M. Begin
Jumped from a second story balcony of
her home to escape from her husband,
who was pursuing her with an AK. She
received injuries which may cause her
death.
Madison, Wis, is financially one of the
poorest places in the west for holding a
football game. This was brought forcibly
home to the athletic board of control of
the University of Minnesota at it's meet
ing when it was reported that Minnesota
lost $500 on the Wisconsin game instead
Of making at least $4,000 or $4,000 as at
first estimated.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-14
LEGAL NOTICES
j. Notice of Assessment

Fire Pulp Plaster Company.
Principal place of business room No.
S11, Union Trust building, southeast
corner of Fourth and Spring streets,
city of Los Angeles, state of California.
Notice is hereby given that at O
meeting of the directors on the 9Th
day of November, 1907, an assessment
of Ten Dollars per share was levied
upon the capital stock of the corpora
tion. payable on or before the 10th day
of December, 1907, to West Hughes.
secretary, at the principal office of the
corporation, room No. S11, Union Trust
building, southeast corner of Fourth
and Spring streets. in the city of Los
Angeles and state of California. Any
stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 10th day OF De-
cember. 1907, will be. delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction,
and unless payment is made before mill
cember, 1907, to pay the delinquent as
vertising and expenses of sale.
WEST HUGHES,
Secretary Fire Pulp Plaster Company.
Room S11, Union Trust BuildinS,
Corner Fourth and Spring Streets,
Los Angeles, California.
BY order of the board of directors
the time for payment of this assess
ment has been extended from Decem-
ber 10. 1907, to January 9, 1908, and the
time for the sale of delinquent stock
has been extended from December 81,
1907, to January 80, 1908.
WEST HUGHES,
Secretary Fire Pulp Plaster Company.
12-14-21-28-1-4 At