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IN SOLITARY CONF
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Pomeroy, Human Fiend, Enters on
Another Year of Sentence.
One of the Most Notorious Prisoners
in the United States Serving Life
Sentence for Torturing and Mur
dering Little Children. Is Not Re
quired to Work.
BOSTON, Mass.—Jesse Pomeroy,
one of the most notorious life pris
oners in the United States, has en
tered upon the thirty-second year of
his confinement behind the gray
walls of the famous state prison in
Charlestown. All of these years
have been passed in solitary confine
ment.
When he was fourteen years old
Pomeroy was sentenced to prison for
life for torturing and murdering lit
tle children. He is now forty-eight
years old and looks to be much old
er. - Despite his long incarceration
he apparently still has hopes of a
pardon, though he has never been
given the slightest encouragement. |
In the early seventies Jesse Pom
eroy and his crimes- were discussed
from one end of the country to the
other. Boston and vicinity were in
a state of terror, when one small
child after another was discovered
horribly beaten and no clew to the
perpetrator of the monstrous cruel
ties could be found.
On the day after Christmas, 1871,
a child named Paine, living in Chel
sea, was found unconscious, tied to
a beam on Powder Horn Hill. His
entirely nude body was covered with
great welts. When he recovered his
irate father and the police learned
that he had met an older boy, who
had led him away from the public
atreet, and had then, in spite of his
«wweak protests, taken off his clothes
and struck him again and again with
a rope.
Before the general excitement over
this mysterious assault had died
away another little boy, named Tra
¢y Hayden, was found in an out of
the way lot, stripped, tied by ropes
to a board. His front teeth were
missing, the bridge of his nose was
broken, and on other parts of his
body were a score of bruises. The
child told a tale similar to that re
lated by the first lad who had been
assaulted. o
: Second Assault.
This second dastardly assault in
flamed the whole community. It was
argued that no person of ordinary
criminal or vicious instinets could
have committed such wanton cruel
ties. The assaults were clearly the
work of a degenerate. TFathers
throughout Chelsea and South Bos
ton wished to burn him at the stake.
Mothers, when their children were
jong absent from home, became hys
terical.
For three months thereafter no
further assaults of this nature were
reported. But one day in early July,
1872, Johnny Balch, a boy of five
yvears, returned to his home in South
Boston on the verge of delirium and
convulsions. Two hours before, he
said, he had met an older boy, who
offered him candy, and then took
him to a secluded spot, where he
stripped him, tied him to a beam,
and beat him until he fainted. This
fiendish assault stirred the two dis
tricts again, and the police worked
desperately to find the criminal.
Two months lafer Robert Gould.
another small boy, was found
stripped and tied to a telegraph pole.
The lad’'s body was covered with
welts from a whip or a rope, and his
head was badly cut. While the ex
‘citement was still at fever heat four
vear-old George Pratt of South Bos
ton was found in the cabin of a
vacht. His body, which was quite
nude, was covered with revolting
bruises. Not content this time with
whipping his prey, the fiend had
punctured him with pins and needles.
several More Assaults.
Several more assaults of the same
dastardly character followed in
auick succession. Finally one of the
little victims was able to furnish a
clew to the perpetrator of the crimes.
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NEMENT 32 YEARS
He named a Pomeroy youth who
worked in a store in Boston. Thith
er the officers hastened with all pos
sible speed. They questioned Jesse,
the fourteen-year-old son of a re
spectable dressmaker. The suspect
denied all knowledge of the assaults,
but he was positively identified by
several of his little victims.
At that time degeneracy was not
so well understood as it is now.
They called Pomeroy a degenerate
and sent him to a reform school. He
was a model prisoner, and at the
end of seventeen months he was re
leased through the efforts of clergy
men, reformers and others who had
interested themselves in his behalf.
Within two months after his re
lease and return home Jesse Pom
erov maltreated and murdered two
more children. One of his victims
was a little girl, the other a five
vear-old boy. The remains were so
mutilated that they scarcely could
be recognized. Pomeroy confessed
his crimes and was given a speedy
trial. This time instead of being
sent to a reform school he was sen
tenced to solitary confinement for
' life.
) For thirty-one vears he has been
lmnfined in" a cell as small as a
closet, dark and bare. On a dozen
occasions ‘he has, with superhuman
cunning, devised plans of escape,
and in spite of constant watching has
succeeded in carrying them to an
advanced stage of execution. He
has never attended divine services in
the prison chapel, and has never
been required to work. It is said
that he has spent much of his time
in reading and has become fairly
well informed. But so far as his
personal experience goes such things
as electric cars, phonographs, tele
phones and other things in common
use today are absolutely unknown to
him. .
WATSON AGAIN PRAISES REPUBS
Says They Are More Friendly to the
South Than the Democrats.
Thomas Watson, the populist nom
inee for president, in an address in
Albany Wednesday before 200 of his
followers from southwest Georgia,
declared that he was the only simon
pure Jeffersonian democrat now iu
existence. He declared Bryan no
democrat. If Bryan was a democrat
in 1902 he was no democrat today.
He said the republican party is more
friendly to the south than the demo
crats. Commenting on the Browns
ville affair he declared the newspa
pers were concealing important facts
about the Bryan conference with the
negro leaders. Watson speaks at
Thomasville Thursday.
TO SELL COTTON IN A LUMP.
Plan of Colquitt Farmers Same As
That for Selling Wool.
The Farmers' Union of Colquitt
county has instituted special sale
days for disposing of their cotton.
They will have such a sale everyl
Thursday. On that day all who have
to sell cotton will bring it in togeth
or and sell it in a lump, inviting
buvers from abroad and open bid
ling. The wool crop of that county
las been marketed in this manner
‘or a number of years, and it is be
ioved that a better price will be
btained for the cotton if sold in
mlk to exporters. |
ARGUED WITH THEIR FISTS. I
i.egislators Try That Way of Settling
Convict Question.
Bad gemper over the convict ques
tion resulted in a personal difficulty
between Representatives Jackson of
Jones and Collum of Schley in the
Kimball House lobby.
They were discussing the situation
when Jackson is said to have inti
mated that the majority in the house
is made up of ‘“d—— fools.” This
Mr. Collum resented.
They passed several blows before
separated. Mr. Jackson claimed to
have made the remarks at which
offense was taken in a spirit of fun,
tnot meaning to give offense.
CASTORTIA.
Boars the The Kind You Have Always Bought
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OWED R. SAGE $22,000,000
MANY WALL STREET OPERA
TORS INDEBTED TO HIM.
Ranged All the Way From Fifty
Thousand to Half a Million Dol
lars. His Real Estate Hold
ings Were Extensive.
According to the report of
ChaTles P. Dillon, appraiser of the
estate of Russell Sage, Wall street
firms were indebted to Mr. Sage in
the aggregate sum of $22,020,000 at
the time of his death, while his hold
ings of stocks and bonds aggregated
between $20,000,000 and $35,000,-
000. Dozens of prominent financial
firms owed Mr. Sage money in sums
ranging from $50,000 to $500,000.
These loans were secured by collat
eral, and all have been liquidated in
cash since Mr. Sage's death on July
22, 1906.
Among the most important of his
stock and bond holdings were:
| Thirty-five thousand eight hundred
shares of Western Union Telegraph
Company, $3,258,000; General Con
solidated Company and Land Grant,
$2,366,177; St. Louis, Iron Moun
' tain and Southern bonds, $2,071,-
iOOO; 12,041 shares Manhattan Rail
| way Elevated Company, $1,822,947;
115,285 shares Missouri Pacific Rail
'road Company, $1,300,933; 2,500
shares Pullman Company, $555.000:
$1,527,790 Missouri Pacific first five
per cent. trust, $1,823,250 Missouri
Pacific first collateral five per cent.
debenture A, and $500,000 New
York City revenue bonds. |
Besides these holdings Mr. Sage
was interested largely in the Texas
and Pacific, Galveston, Houston and;
'Quincy, Baltimore and Ohio, St. Louis
‘and Southwestern, Missouri, Kansas‘:
‘and Texas, Union Pacific, Colorado
and Central and Pennsylvania Rail-1
roads; the United States Steel Cor
porations, Consolidated Gas, Ameri-‘
can Telegraph and Telephone and
United States Rubber Companies. l
His bank and trust company in
terests were 625 shares in the Na—l
tional Bank of Commerce, valued
at $122,500; 497 shares in the Im-|
porters and Traders’ National Bank.!
valued at $278,220; 150 shares in‘
the Citizens Central National Bank, |
valued at $20,700, and $l,OOO shares
‘n the Mercantile Trust Company,
valued at $825,000.
That the financial judgment of Mr.
Sage was not always infallible is
shown by the fact that in the course
of his long career he accumulated
many securities which the appraiser
classifies in his report as of ‘“‘nomi
nal” value. In this list are shares
in about thirty corporations, Mr.
Sage’s interest in each being small.”
Twenty-five shares of the Fifth
Avenue Bank were appraised at $95,~J
000.
Mr. Sage's real estate holdings
were extensive, especially in the res- |
idential district, and he held mort- |
gages of $45,000 on the West Pres-l
byterian church. The household fur—l
niture in his house at No. 632 Fith |
avenue was appraised at $8,052.
The gross value of the real estate
was placed at $1,945.500.
From the total of approximadtely
$64,000,000 left by Mr. Sage there
were to be deducted the following
items:
Funeral expenses, $3,784; debts,
$37,862; executor's commissions, $l,-
991,271; administration expenses, !
$170,990. |
16 FEET OF CORN FOK DINNER.
A Unique Contest Is on In Sullivan
County, New York.
There is a contest on in Sullivan
county, New York, among sweet
corn eaters, and several claim the
championship of the county. As a
result an effort is to be made to
have a public cora-eating contest and
award a loving cup to the victor.
Fred Owens, the 13-year-old son
Henry E. Owens of Gooseville, is de
clared to be the champion for his
age. The other day he ate the corn
off cobs which when laid out end
to end measured 11 feet 9 inches.
This feat was performed after he had
eaten a hearty dinner. William
Ports of Roscoe has cleaned off 24
cobs which measured 16 feet. This
was done at one meal, and Mr. Ports
challenges anyone to beat it.
A BLACK REVOLT. ]
A Poll Shows That Many Nog‘roosl
Will Vote for Bryan. |
The six states of West Virginia,
Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, lilinois and
Missouri cast 103 electoral votes and
have 303,000 negro votes.
Thomas Wallace Swann, writing
from the Negro Anti-Taft’ Head
quarters, Chicago, reports a poll
made of four Indiana counties hav
ing a total of 2,272 negro votes. The
number reached in the poll was 1,-
693, and this is the result:
Four hundred and eighty-one de
clare they will not vote for any can
didate for the presidency; 107 will
vote for Taft; 398 for Bryan; 157
for Hisgen; 63 for Chafin, and 72
refused to answer,
A Paying Investment.
Mr. John White of 3% Highland
avenue, Houlton, Maine, says:
“Have been troubled with a cough
every winter and spring. Last win
ter I tried many advertised reme
dies, but the cough continued until
I bought a 50c¢ bottle of Dr. King’s
New Discovery; before that was half
gone the cough was all gone. This
winter the same happy result has
followed; a few doses once more ban
ished the annual cough, 1 am now
convinced that Dr. King's New Dis
covery is the best of all cough and
lung remedies.” Sold under guaran
tee at Dawson Drug Co's. 50c¢ and
$l.OO. 'Trial bottle free. \
THE DAWSON NEWS.
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It is one of the standard products of the Acme Brewery.
Sold bottled or on draught everywhere under the guarqntee the
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Brewed by ACME BREWING CO., Macon, Ga.
L L. H. Marks, Albany, Ga., Agent.
BARGAINING WITH A BURGLAR.
How an Old Banker Got Rid of an
Unwelcome Visitor.
From the Kansas City Star.
A group of his friends were dis
cussing William Winslow Sherman,
the old banker, who died not long
ago. :
‘““He had the coolest nerve of any
man I know,” said one. ‘Three or
four years ago, when Sherman was
an old man and partially crippled
by reason of a fall from a horse, he
entered his bedroom late at night to
find a masked burglar ransacking it.
‘“The thief had a big gun trained
on Sherman in a minute. The bank
er just waved it aside with a tired
hand. ‘Put that away,” he said irri
tably. ‘Let us discuss this matter
like gentlemen.” The burglar was so
surprised he laughed. ‘Now, you
could hurt me if you wanted to, and
might get away with some little
knickknacks,” said Sherman. ‘But
you might be caught, and there’s a
slight probability that you could dis
pose of my toilet articles profitably.
"What would you consider a fair cash
proposition to go away?’ They
‘talked it over in peace.
I ‘“The burglar thought he ought to
‘have $lO, but Sherman, after inquir
ing into the man’s habits, said $8 was
enough. ‘You see,” he said, ‘you're
a known thief. If this were your
first offense I'd pay you your price,
but now the police have your picture
you ought to be glad to accept any
fair compromise and run no risk.’
“The burglar finally agreed to take
$B. Sherman pulled out a $lO bill.
‘Give me $2 change,” said he. And
!Iw got it before he paid.”
l[’l-l.\(*" TREES UNDER THE AXE.
Eight Thousand of Them Cut Down
By Floyd County Farmer.
Two miles from Cave Springs, in
Floyd county, 8,000 peach trees lay
felled to the ground with their leaves
withering in the sun. They were cut
down by their owner, Mr. William
Hight, who has determined to put
the fine land they occupied to some
more profitable use.
So far as has been reported Mr.
Hight is the first Floyd county grow
er to take this step. The trees were
eight years old, and had been bearing
for five years, but had yielded a profit
but once in that time. This much
resembles the drastic measures taken
by the Farmers’ Union in that section
when they planted their land in cot
ton and then plowed it up to reduce
the acreage.
Mr. Hight's example has been fol
lowed by many growers in Chattooga
county.
AND BUGGIES.
We have just received a large shipment
ot high-grade Runabouts and Buggies,
and extend to you a cordial invitation to
visit our Repository in the building for
merly occupied by the First State Bank.
A line of well-satisfied customers will
warrant the statement . that our styles
and prices will please you.
We also have a complete line of Harness
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SEPTEMBER 16, 1908,