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

Pomeroy's m6tber kept small
storey "d'The little gifl-Katle- never
came back she disappeared like a.
Whit OF cigar smoke In a stormy rnid-r
Atlantfcn Her mother was frantic
with grief. Everybody became de-
teetivel The months rolled away. one
rainy day little deafmute pulled at
"a policetah's coat. and by signs In.
dicated that he wished the policeman
to go along with him, which he did.
2'-' Murderer Apprehepded -
They, went out Of the highways
and byYays until they came TO the
Dorchester marshes. which, were hs
gloomy In those days as the marshes
Of Abel MagYitch and Pip, The 1T
lie fellow. was in. terrible, state OF
excitement, and soon The officer was
when they came TO murdered and rnu
,ilated little Horace MILAN. lying In
the mud and grass, They carried the
body to the, station house. and then
had plaster OF paris, casts taken }iof
the footprints In the mud near where
the boys body was found. They then
went to Mrs Pomeroy's house. Jesse
was IN, bed. ,i, ,-......i.er
Ills shoes exactly htted the casts.
He was arrested While. he vas. in
jail his mother moved away from the
old home on Br1aiway for obvious
reasons, Then the house was torn
down to make room for a better one.
While the workmen were digging In
the cellar they unearthed the little
corpse OF Katie Curran. Then Jesse
confessed that he had murdered her
and little MILAN.
A"She had come into the store for
the thread her mother had sent her
for. Jesse was alone in the store.
He told her to go back and get tt
to turn to the right, ' H
Fate Of Little Victim.
TN the meantime he had turned
the key in the front door. leading to
the street, returned, followed the lit
tie GIRL and as she started back from
the cellarway he sprang upon her.
| pushed her down the cellar stairs,
mutilated, then killed her! He then
dug a grave in the cellar, buried her,
came upstairs, washed his hands and
face, unlocked the front door. had his
| dinner, and went to bedll He was the
only one In the world who knew OF
| that little corpse In his mothers eel
/ lar" NV yen Bl8a lgdj w. N
b. When Pomeroy was tried a petition
/ signed by thousands OF mothers Vas
sent to the governor praying him to
hang jesse Because pf his yfiith.
however, the sentence was eOmmlifed.
% One, governor, years afteFward, is.
tied him In his cell 70 hear his player
for liberty. su uiiWhy,9 map =" q SAID lhe
RqYerDor after ]ist stepIpgoto him, ~ I
4 sheuidl ,paTdoai fgquuq YOU s,WoplAH be
HstTung lVp TO the nearest 1lamp post
A outslde.a U.a,i5. ea5E3 uitu
II shocked aand stantlsdl PomeFoy.
He hadn't Thought OF that But an he
said was, gWouid thstlbe jIHtceF
4 "Jnsticea 10 POraeroy'sG,hdbbyE
I Many igftorts have been made n Sc
4 cure his uDeleaselu On one occasi0h a
number of Virginia women applal ed
10 a Massachusetts govefnor to#set
Pomeroy free. n The governor wrote
5backt IT 1coHr9tia elh) o.
.s'lf Pomeroy O had committed 1hls
crimes I'm your state he would have
been burned alive at the stake. and
there would be no necessity for q
J pardont'o y1dy SD lail .pU'
Yet It is probably true, as has often
been asserted, that II science in 1876
had progressed as far as II has in
1910 In explaining the pathological
causes for such crimes as Pomeroys
he would have been sent, not TO soil
tary confinement IN a state prison
but to an asylum for the criminal in
sane. iai0Ia yllau15ie 90 l.s
4 Pomeroy was arrested In 1874. The
MILAN boy. for whose murder he wal
tried. was only four years old. Ir
s 1875 Pomeroy 3 beganoy his lie II
4 .Charlestown prison, alGo.u
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