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? THE CAREER OF WHO BEGAN A Possesses the Distinction < Famous Criminal?S < and Attempl A five-year-old boy, named Pratt, whose home was in South Boston, i % Mass,, was found in 1872 tied to the " K oflnot in thp ID SSI 01 ail U1U uua l auvuv ?4? v ?* "cow pasture" marshes. His eye, lids were pinned to his forehead, his lips had been slit and many pins were sticking in his flesh. He was living and recovered, but was crippled for life, says the St. Louis PostDispatch. j A few- days afterward another little boy was found tied by his thumbs fo the limb of a tree. Another child; was found tied to a telegraph pole, j his 6aek jabbed and slit, with salt rubbed into the wounds. Half a dozen similar outrages were reported within a week or ten days. A boy was tied up within a short: distance of the railway station. All of the victims were boys under! 10 years of age, most of them around . 6 or 7 years. Descriptions of their! tormentor differed. Some said he; was a man with red beard, others: thought him a "big" boy. All agreed that his eyes were peculiar, j A boy he was, and that "big" boy! ' was Jesse Pomeroy, a youth of 13, fr?r fortv-one vears to date has ^ borne the doubtful honor of being America's most noted criminal. He was a product of Boston, where he was born December 21, 1859.) His parents lived in comfort: his: father was a butcher, the mother ran a notion store. No one suspected their thirteen-year-old son of possessing criminal instincts. He was like most boys, rougher with small playmates than with those his size, j but not to a marked degree^ a- But when the outrages began andi f the little victims had told of a "big"' i boy being their assailant, systematic ; efforts to find this boy were made One little boy was sure he had seen the "big" boy before in his neighborhood, but did not know his name. This started a school principal to studying the boys in his school. He v hit on one, largely because his eyes did not match, and that he was a| bit inclined to "lord it over" small- j er ones. It was arranged that the latest victim should come to the school. "All eyes front," the principal commanded. The child looked the class over and said: "He is not here." Just then the principal saw that one of the boys had turned his head * to the side. I "Now, all again, eyes front, and: don't one of you turn until I give j permission," said the teacher. "There he is, that's the boy'"; shouted the child the instant his, eyes gazed upon Jesse romeroysi face. "I know it is he, for the boy j that whipped me had eyes that didn't: match!" w Jesse's eyes didn't match; one was white. The Pomeroy boy was ar- \ * rested. In court he was shown to ,> he a cheap novel reader, but all the? children read similar novels. Prac1 tieally the only thing in which he differed from his playmates was that I > his eyes did not match. He was never seen to smile and had a marked inclination to extreme secretive ness. The boy was sentenced to West> boro Reformatory and became the . subject of deep study by alienists and scientific men generally, who felt sure he was wrong some way --a degenerate. insane or something abnormal. In truth, public sentiment was so aroused that the officials were more than anxious to find something sufficiently wrong to keep him in prison indefinitely. Little Katie Curran, a 9-year-old f child, living near the Pomeroy store, disappeared in the spring of 1874. She had been sent by her mother to buy a spool of thread. When detectives asked Jesse Pomeroy if she came to his mother's store, he was; so openly frank that they believed him. 4 "Yes, she was here,' he said: "she bought the thread and then went out of here." Weeks of search brought no result and another mystery was added to the list of unsolved things. Policeman Faxon was on duty on South Fourth street, Boston, April 22, 1 874?a few weeks after the mystery of Katie Curran's disappearance. There had been a heavy snow arid a chill wind was blowing. Out . of the cold came a youngster, who grabbed ^his hand, mumbled some-! thing and pointed to the salt marshes in the distance. He could only point for he was a deaf mute. Thinking that the child had strayed from the deaf mute's institution and was afraid to go home alone, the policeman permitted the child to lead nim down the street. But the youngster I * i i A CRIMINAL lT THE AGE OF 13 af Being America's Most itory of His Crimes l ?_ r [S to nscape. did not stop at the big gate; he tugged along leading the way to the marshes. Every time the policeman halted the child pulled at his hand and pointed to the wet marshes beyond. At last the policeman reached a point where the grass was high and the water close to the roadway. Pointing into the clump the child mumbled something, which was in- , terpretea to mean "search." There in the weeds lay the dead and butchered body of a little boy. He had been mutiliated and his flesh was full of pins. The deaf mute was taken to the Perkins institute for the deaf and dumb, and there Dr. Anagnas was fingered the story; "I was in the front yard when Horace Mellen and a big boy came along. They asked me if I wanted : to go down to the marshes, but I could not go, and they went along without me. The big boy took Horace awray out in the marshes; then they sat down. The big fellow got up, hit Horace with a stick and then sat down again. It a little while the big fellow came along, and I ran to this policeman." There was the crime and the clew ?the "big boy" with a little boy, horrible mutilation of the dead child i and his hody full of pins. Footprints in the snow were carefully traced on paper, and with one accord the police said: "Jesse Pomeroy!" At tne Fomeroy home the mother .was awakened. "We want Jesse." the police said. "He's in bed, been sick all day and has not been out of the house," answered the mother. It was a fatal defence. It convinced the police that the boy had been up to some mischief, even if he did not kill the Mellen child. The door was opened and in bed, apparently asleep, was Jesse. His shoes and stockings near by were wet and muddy. The shoes exactly fitted the prints in the snow where the Mellen boy's body was found. He was arrested for murder, but denied guilt, saying he had not been near the marshes all day. He did admit leaving the house despite his mother's vehement assertions to the contrary. A cell door swung to, and Jesse Pomeroy was a prisoner awaiting trial. The day Jesse was held for trial the mother closed her store and moved. Everybody felt sorry that she must abandon her business, and assumed that the disgrace had been too much for her. Landlords were "on the job" in those days as actively as to-day. Soon renovators were in the now vacant store room to fix it up for the next tenant. At first they encountered a horrible odor. They attributed it to the stuffiness of the closed store. Next day they found a number of dead rats. These were thrown n IUB streets. A near-by druggist became interested in the rats, for all had disintegrated in a peculiar manner. He predicted that all had eaten something containing chloride of lime. Then he recalled that he had sold chloride of ' lime to a member of the Pomeroy family. With the police he hurried to the store. In the basement was found a pile of earth and lime. Into it they delved. First they found a gold locket and chain, then the disintegrating body of a little girl, the body of little Katie Curran. It had been placed in the lime only a short time before, after the arrest of Jesse for the Mellen boy's murder. Indignation ran to the limit. An attempt was made to burn the house and the father of Jesse had to leave Boston, although no one suspected him. He had not lived with his wife for a long time previously. The crowd shouted for the blood of the mother, but she was safe with the police. It was shown that both murders were calmly conceived and calmly carried out, thus making their villainy peculiarly atrocious. When the Curran girl asked for a spool of thread she was told to come down to the end of the counter and make her selection. While she was there Jesse walked to the street door and locked it. Then he hit the child in the head with a club, threw the body down the cellar steps, followed it to strike more blows, covered the body with rags, returned to the store, washed his hands, unlocked the door for business again. When his mother came in ne went nome tor supper, after which he slept through the night free from fear or worry. It was proved clearly that his muri der of the Mellen boy was free from ; cause other than an uncontrollable love for murder. He had made no i arrangement to meet the child, just picked him up on the street and promised a walk to the marshes. Then they began to play, during which he knocked the child unconscious and mutilated the body, so that he died from the mutilation rather than from the original blow. It was contended by his lawyers that the fiendishness shown in his murders proved the boy's insanity. Their alienists were manfully in support of the theory, but other alienists swore equally well for the prosecution. The jury brought in a verdict of first degree murder. Up to this time all Massachusetts had shrieked against the villain. Now the pendulum swung the other way. Could the noble State of cul ture and college put a 15-ybar-old boy to death. Must it demand an eye for an eye. Judge Gaston, later governor, thought hanging none too severe, and sentenced him to the gallows. That opened the floodgates. Thousands of petitions and letters flooded the office of Governor Rice. Part urged clemency, others sought vengeance. A dozen little victims of the fiend were paraded before the governor when the latter was presented. Governor Rice commuted the sentence to solitary confinement for life. For a long time he was a model prisoner. One day he reverted to his natural self and declared: "I will not be here always. When r get out I will kill Judge Gaston and every one who helped put me here." He tried to escape a dozen or more times. Xo one doubts if he is ever beyond the prison walls some one or several will pay dearly for the long years of confinement. In the long time since 1867 Jesse Pomeroy has kept the news channels more than fullf for the cunning that made him a successful criminal has kept him busy in attempts to escape. It has been an hourly matching of wits between the prisoner and his keepers, with the score to date largely in favor of the prisoner. It is true he is still a prisoner, but his near-escapes have made monkeys of the Massachusetts prison officials. One day Jesse complained to hi^ mother' that the bench in his cell was too hard, and asked for a chair. > The officials consented to her bringing one. It was subjected to many examinations, and was being carried to the cell, when the heat of the keeper's hand melted sorhe varnish on the back. Out fell a bit of wood. It was the cover to a hollow place in which were a bunch of saws. They were taken out, the holes filled and then the chair was placed in the cell. To this day Pomeroy has not spoken of the absence of those saws. A year or two later Pomeroy told the warden that he had invented a 1 lead pencil that could be sharpened without the use of a knife. The warden loaned him some tools to make a model. Although carefully watched, as was supposed, he used the tool to remove the fnortar from behind the rock of his cell, and was engaged on the outside wall when caught. Once he dug the mortar from between the huge stones of his cell until he reached a gas pipe. This he pierced with a drill and filled in the hole with wet bread. Then he filed the bars of his door. Next he loosened the leg of his cot. His plans were to fill the prison with gas. explode it with a match, push through the cell door and, with the leg of his cot as a weapon, take the chances in the corridor. Everything went well up to the vital point, and the explosion ripped open the cell, hurling a huge stone through the ceiling into the hospital above. It knocked down the guards and opened the way to freedom?but Pomeroy was not able to take advantage of it. A large stone had hit him fairly on the head and he was found unconscious in the floor. When he reached the hospital he only grinned over his failure. "Something went wrong and I will succeed the next time." Finding escape by the ordinary methods somewhat of a delusion, he next tried starvation, and was almost without food for twenty-three days. Explaining his ideas he said: "I knew you fellows would not let me die, and if the outside world once heard how I was withering it would believe me to be starving and would demand release." Nobody may now see tbe man. His mother's visits were cut off long ago. He sits alone in his dungeon, enjoying many conveniences, electric lights, books, etc., but not libertv. Pomeroy was illiterate when he entered the prison. Now he is an accomplished scholar. The recent application for a pardon which was denied, was about his fiftieth. i The New York Housewives' League has engaged several women to act as inspectors in their crusade against cold storage food. DELAYED MANY MONTHS. Tedious Process of Litigation Likely i in Frank Case. Atlanta, April 17.?The execution of Leo M. Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan, which has been set for noon to-day, will at least be. delayed many months by the action of attorneys yesterday, in the opinion of legal authorities here. It was pointed out to-day that a tedious process of litigation, which may include a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, will now be necessary before the last recourse to save the convicted factory superintendent's life has been exhausted. It was generally expected that of ' * 11 T~"1 ^ 4 tne two motions niea oy r rail* s attorneys in Superior Court yesterday, that asking a new trial on grounds of newly discovered evidence would be first pressed for action. If, after arguments on April 22 this motion is denied, appeal probably will be taken to the Supreme Court of Georgia, which already has affirmed the lower Court in denying a new trial on previously submitted evidence. China as a Cotton Country. That education is a two-edged sword, cutting both ways through ignorance, indolence, sickness, evil and all forms of darkness, is illustrated by the successful campaign of education which China's white friends waged against opium, assisted by many of the more humane and progressive Chinese. The plunging of this sword into the vitals of the opium traffic uprooted the popy plant from millions of acres; the drawing out of the sword planted cotton seed to such good purpose that in four years China has jumped into second place as a cotton producing nation. For 1,000 years China has been raising cotton of a sort. But the growth was spasmodic, the industry was not systematized, and practically all the weaving was done by hand until a few years ago. Now, howevef, it is different. In 1910, 1911 and 1912 China raised an annual average of 15,680,000 picues of cotton, or about 4,181,333 bales of 500 pounds per bale. The ministry of agriculture and forestry at Peking estimates the cotton crop of 1913 at 5,333,444 bales. Modern cotton 'mills now have a large share in the' industrial life of Shanghai and Hongkong. This production puts the republic of China second only to the United States as a cotton country, and who knows but that "The Yellow Yankees" may surpass us some day? For the present, however, the United i States^ produces from 14,000,000 to 16,000,000 bales per annum, comprising from 50 to 60 per cent of the world's cotton yield. "Brer Rabbit" on London Svtge. Of interest through the south, and especially in Atlanta, the home of Joel Chandler Harris, will be the following cable from London which describes the staging of the Uncle Remus stories and the enthusiasm with which the initial performance was received. "Since the beloved 'Bluebird' revealed the possibilities of modern poetic symbolism in drama and achieved an enormous success, we have waited impatiently for other playwrights to follow Maeterlinck's lead, and at last we were rewarded by a play with a distinct American flavor which approaches 'The Blu$Bluebird' in exquisite poetic charm. It is 'Brer Rabbit and Mr. Fox," which was-presented for the first time, on any stage at the Aldwych theater to a delighted and astonished audience. "The fantasy is an adaptation of Joel Chandler Harris' 'Uncle Remus' stories, which are almost as popular nere as tney are in America, wim a musical setting based on negro melodies, by Cecil Sharp and .Martin Shaw. Tt is distinctly a play for 'grown-ups' who want to be kiddies again, if even for a night, and is full of delightful symbolism and quaint philosophy such as makes the 'Uncle Remus' stories have an irresistable appeal. 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