Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-11-30

as on its legal aspect. because icir-
cumstances alter cases ''.
I'm the sincere hope that II hay
move you 70 .upllft. in some way, the
friendless life, am, respectfully
yours. ,-.............,r...-..-, .'
...-.--...-.-- JESSE n. -POMERoYl"
To this he appends copies OF the
records In his case. OPT.
Record Of His Crimes. a
One of Pomeroy's playmates wrote
his recollectious of the murderer
about twenty years ago, He said that
as boy Jesse was quiet, retiring,
taciturn, and-not fond OF games. His
favorite reading was the dime novels
OF T3eadle and Munro. They Used to
play Indians" and Jesses favorite
hero was Simon Girty. the renegade,
while the other boys swone by Ken
ton, Boone and the Wetzels,, ,,t Al sa.-
1T was all wildly extravagant talk"
said ''Jesse's schoolmate, and not
worth writing about but for the fact
that at that very time Boston was in
a sea of excitement over the outrhges
perpetrated by some unknown per
son on little boys OF from eight to
nine years of age. .sgV FUaI1A 'a.
"One week the news would come
that a little boy was found tied to a
telegraph pole on the Old Colony, or
Boston. Hartford g. Erie road. hor,
ribly mutilated, with his back in rib.
bons and caked with salt The next
week or month another little boy, II
s.N rHs.fa ufa ~
age, OF anywhere near II, would be
found in Chelsea, or East Boston. or
| Jamaica Plain, or Dorchester, mutt
lated and cut in the same way. Some
times a boy was found tied to tree,
sometimes ia an old barn, but oftener
to a telegraph pole on some railroad.
Fathers began to tell their boys to
be careful OF a man with red hair and
| beard" as the Goth was described by
his victims. and mothers were anX-
lous II their boys we're out of their
sight for half day. sU Hu .u. qaH
t... Jesse Always Silent .a'
I'VE. used to talk of the acts Of this
earlier Ripper among ourselves, but
Jesse never had anything to say about
IL. one way or the other. Then the
number of boys who were chased.
and escaped by the enamel of their
teeth. at about this time was legion
| One boys name / rememberEthe
others I've clean forgotten--was oil
yer Whitman. The Ripper had been
in his clutches, and he fought like a
ldgef to- fnnaike a comet With awe
we looked upon Ollie after that. Jesse
said nothing. But he thought: What
a Bar YOU are. ollie Whitman!' fa-
"One fine day there came intb ithe
schooiro0mr in which Jesse had a seal
and desk the head master. a ikn'
edrness tidnk. ian officer, and hnt
of the unknowns victims. The little
feiiGw jlhad 1boenrfqbnd7J Jthinkpdlr
Chelsea hHHg,Vp and cut up. WfpeT
I II, ifeeovered' he said At wa4hS a mar
with red Whiskers and hair who irat
treated him so. but boy who lSolkeC
to- be IourgoU lye years older thar
himself. so they took this poor littlt
t'ihdellated' acBapi around ft6 all the
schools in rRostons Il believe, until tlrel
came 10. think. the Bigelow school
His identification. of.
ADO YOU see him here? said oth'
MASTER to the little victim. 80
Moo. hesitatingly replied II III
tie fellow Then. sharply. from th'
iElhdy teaeher9 7'7'gA fylh .Yl
n'Pomeroyi why,donit you hold u
your pead'r JlR ioH 50! 4asil.sr
Slowly Jesse raised his head an'
the. boy, screamed; Le -u oE-
""That's him that's him! I'D know
him by his eyer ''' ''% e'' 'H.
lu"And so Jesse was arrested. tried
found guilty and sentaneed to tn
Westboro reform school. II Jesse ha,
been III that dhy---lll enough to bav
kept himself in the house7The, Nigh
be rivaling Jack the Ripper now"
Pomeroy got out Of the reforn
school in about a year. Up, 10 thi
time he had always, stopped short q
murder, What happened after his r.
J lease was told by his old sehoolmat
as followsli a.a. 4.H
! In the following summer Mri
Curran sent her little eight or mint
year-old -irl out for some thread.