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Recollections c By Col. D. No. 8. The DICKERT Th-ey used to call him a degenerate, but by now they call him?well they call him nothing, for it has been more than a quarter of a century since any one, save a guard or two have ever laid eyes upon him or he heard a human voice. In the old prison in New York, called the Tombs, he sits > today, and has for forty years, reading, writng and plotting. About the year 1870, the city of ^s'ew York was thrown into paroxisms of excitement and fear at the wanton ** Voln. cruellies pei pemaicu upuu muc less boys. From these cruelties and tortures several of the victims died. Little boys between the ages of eight or ten were found in various portions of the city triced up to telegraph and lamp posts, some with their lips sewed together, others, with their ears and nose cropped, w^ile others again were found tied up, gagged and their ArtToro/i -nrifVi ni n hpads the UUUKQ VV/IC1VU iniu J pins haveing been pushed in to the head. From this form of agony two little boys died soon after being released. Well might the fathers and mothers be alarmed for their little ones. It went on this way at intervals for months without the faintest clue to the identity of the dastard. The chil3? * -11 +V> ~ c-n mo nf a i^^area 2111 IUIU me oawv aw>j v. ptrange big boy," -who, by promises . PR* persuasion had induced the victim to accompany him to some secluded spot toilers he came upon unawares and bound th m, by threats, before they could give an a-larm. Who could this be? What was the motive? Was a crazy boy loose in the city that no one knew of? Search went on. Po lice and plain ciotnes men wcrtr sm- j tioned all over the city to watch the, movement of every "strange boy" but nothing was discovered. One day a little boy, deaf and dumb, same running to a policeman on watch near the swamps of East river, and by his excitement and wild gesticulations, induced the policeman to accompany him. In a tangled morass near the river this officer, who "by virtue of his calling should be har dened to all kinds of crime, came upon a scene that caused his blood to run cold. There lay a little boy not yet in his teens, tied hand and foot, his lips pinned together, his body one mass of blood, hafing been almost j cut to pieces with the blade of a pen fcnife. When the little mute gave his testimony to those who could underI stand him, he told of a large boy, abput fourteen or fteen years old? leading tlte little one to the swamp, wis snsninirm was aroused by having heard of the various atrocities, lie watched and saw the foul deed committed. He lay corcealed until the * fiendish wretch went away, then made ! for a policeman. He described the boy t fcut the description^fit so many boys in the great city that they were no nearer the solution than before. With the boy in lead, the police searched the city ov?r, the little mute r declaring be would know the "big boy among a thousand." Then an old philanthropist deter-4 mined to unravel the mystery. He reasoned that every bby of that age was compelled to attend the public schools and he and he and his little mute friend determined to visit every one o? the several thousand of schools if it took a year. The old gentleman a aa! o n_ . got permission iruiu txic &u. thorities to visit the schools oil some pretext of examination, the real cause of their visit was kept secret. Day after day, week after week, they visited one school after another,,, had the roll called i^ the presence of j the little mute, who pretended to be a; < passive spectator. But still the right ' "boy could not be found. They visited every absentee. After several months of_ this tiresome and apparently use- ] less search of 2 or 3 months they visit- j ed a grammar .school in one of the ] outlying district. WVten the roll was ( v called the teacher noticed one boy, as his name was called turned his face "Turn vrmr face this L\J U11C &x\x\s. 4. u*** ^ - ? way Pomeroy, when you answer, you did not do it before." As the boy j i turn-ed his face to the front the little mute sprang to his feet, clapping his hands, and by signs declared Pomeroy to be the culprit. ' \ And so it proved. From that day 1 to this, Jesse Pomeroy has stood be- j # fore the world, without peer in ini- ( tho mwt fiendish and harbar V? UXWJ , vwv ?? ous monstrosity in human form the world has seen since civilization began. ( Jesse Pomeroy confessed all his i crimes without a tremor of remorse ; nor did he pretend any reason or cause )f a Long Life i A. Dickert Degenerate. that prompted him to these cruelties upon the innoncent little children. When the trial came on Pomeroy was the least excited or interested of any <->r>Q in tVio r>rmrt rr*r?m "Rii tnld of his crimes, not in a barggadocio way, neither in a repentant manner, all as if it were matter of fact. When he stood self convicted the jurors, the judge and the governor of the State were in greater quandary than the fellow. They could not hang a boy only thirteen years old, nor did it seem just to imprison so youthful criminal for life. So it was compromised by placing him in a reformatory until he reached his majority which was six or seven years. In the reformatory he made a model prisonoer, obedient, willing and non complaining. His work and his studies he pursued without a murmur, to his companions in crime he was courteous and kind, but there was ever'in his eyes a lurking cat like expression. After two years of imprisonment and the good report of the warden' petitions and memorials from old maidens with a fad, young maidens wrm luectia auu scumucui, u^^uu pouring into the governor's office, asking for his reprieve. Mothers and fathers with little ones at home, did not join in the crusade for the liberation of Jesse Pomeroy. But the governor could not withstand this flood of petitions and at the end of his second year, he walked out of the prison door a free man, or rather a free boy. He returned to the home of his mother, nis ratner aymg wnen the boy was in his infancy, and was installed as an assistant in the little shop on a back street, kept by Mrs. Pomeroy. He appeared to be diligent in his business and courteous in his behavior, but before the year was out the people in the neighborhood were in a frenzy of excitement over the sudden disappearance of a little girl about eleven years old. She was hunted for everywhere, but could trail her no farther than the Pomeroy shop. All trace of tier from here was lpst. Jesse admitted she came in the store, made a purchase, and left. Suspicion pointed, to the boy but his. frank and prompt admission of seeing her in the shop, threw the sleuths off their guard. At last a search of the premises was made. Every nook and cranny, from garret to cellar, was exploreed to no avail. Weeks went by, then one day, an Employee at a chemical plant nearby, told of seeing Jesse carrying away a 'Unit- livrtA nr onmD VinH nf fhpmi. uag, U1 JUiilC Wi VJWUJiw ?cals that he said his mother wanted. I Another visit was made to the premises and there was found, what was thought to be the faint remains of l the little girl, eaten up by the quick lime. When the boy was confronted with this evidence, he confessed the deed. He had induced the girl, after j the purchase, to accompany him to the rear end of the store, and there felled her with an iron rod, knocking her down the steps into the cellar. I He showed no signs of penitence or | justification of the act Again he stood in the dock and this j time sentenced to be hanged. Again | petitions for leniency came in by the cart load to the governor. His sentence was commuted to life time j solidary confinement in the Tombs j prison. Now with a life of imprisonment be- ! fore him, he began to study. The library of the prison is very large and the law provides the inmates the use of any and all the books. Jesse first - - 1 ?- XT ^ 4- ; mastered His own language, men uuil Df the French, German and Spanish, roday he can read and write fluently in all these languages. He wrote great treatises about his trials, the aws of New York and kindred subjects. Every incoming new governor | ^ceived from him hundreds of pages iomplaining of his unjust treatment at the bar and the injustice of the law, but never a word of penitence or a request for pardon. His writing continued for years, i ;vhen one day, to the amazement of | the prison officials, Jesse stood on the ' roof of the building a free man again. j When discovered he ran down the ire escape to a lower roof, and from that he leaped for liberty to the around, onlv to be caught in the arms >f a guard. It was found that for years he had been releasing a great granite sto:ae in his cell, had made a chain out of lisnarded steel Dins and old nails v.*i:h j .vhich he lifted out the stone at night md replaced in the day time, all the while scraping out the cemenet that i I held the stones in the outer walls. What he did with the waste will never be known. He was placed in another cell, higher" iiv* .jnH ctrnncror .TpSSfi be??an On L LI jj UIIU Utl v/iigv* . v - 0 his good behavior again, writing, writing always writing never turning his head to see or look at a. passerby. Years, yes, ten of them rolled by, when at midnight, the prison officials and inmates were startled by a deafening explosion. The guards and warden ran everywhere, seeking the escaping gas, tnai an, su uisuuulij smelled. At .T-esse cell they found the whole wall next the corridor blown out and Jesse standing with a great club in his hand in one corner in a dazed condition. t* ~+V10+ o loro-o irnn .crflc ninft JL l? C C UL10 Hid L ix iux v./ a a v** q ? ran along inside the wall, near the top of the cell, next the ' corridor. By some means, perhaps by calculation, j if not by intuition, Jesse discovered I its locality. Then painstaking and deJ liberately he began ten years of toil, j in piercing the granite wall, then the I iron pipo. This he accomplished, with his discarded steel pir.s and a few old nails he hsd gotten out of his bedstead. When at last his work was done^his idea was tc flood the room with gas, then igDite it, hoping thus to blow out tie wall to the carridcr and -trust to luck and circumstances for his chance to freedom. All this he carried out as planned. When the room was sufficiently flooded*, he crawled far back under his bed, having wrenched off one of its legs, as a weapon, ignited the dangerous ele i ment Dy sirmiug a. spans, wnu a jjcu op the granite floor. The expected explosion took place, but with far greater effect than was anticipated. | Not only the opposite wall went, but i Jesse's bed and Jes:se, himself, were ncruinst t"hp wt}11 stunning him I so he could not take advantage of the j circums lances he had created. I The terrific explosion roused and I excited inmates and keeper to a great [pitch, not knowing what would take p^ac-^ next. The smell of suffocating gas "was soon in every room for the whole main of the b lilding was blown out and the building was flooding fast | where thejeast spark would blow the prison to atoms. Bi^t, the gas was the first thing shut off, before attending to Jesse. No doubf bad he not ' J w 41* A i 1 AfP | Deen S(3 Siuiliieu WJUI mc i;uu v/j. I his beclstead he would have given the keepers the fight of their lives. When ' upbraided by the chief warden, who had been exceedingly kind to the boy, he only grinned and said, "You think I am going to be penned up i all my life and not try to maite my escape?" A special cell was made for him of the heaviest granite blocks, lined outside and in with the hardest steel. In front of his grated door, sits day jto watch Jesse and whenever a tread and night, a sentinel whose only duty - ~ I is neara coming a screen is pusucu across the opening. For more than twenty years no one lias seen N or spoken to him except the guard and this only on matters of duty. Tfte casie of Jesse Pomeroy has been the object of study and research of every alienist, psychologist and scientist in this country. Time and again, he has been examined by experts, by order of the court, but all declare him normal in every respect. Those who believe in hereditary and claim that certain traits in distant ancestors may skip for a thousand generations when suddenly it crops out in some descendant, say Jesse may have inherited this murderous trait, from some distant forebear, among those who came out of the great plains of Iran, and spread over Europe whose tenets were "to kill and destroy everything they could not make use of." o-nfl TIT 1 nr T5D DEATH f LAUii?ixu Lifts Him Out of Condition of Coma.? A 3Ian of Millions West Palm Beach, Fla., May 20.? Henry M. Fagler passed quietly away at Ocean View cottage, Palm Beach, at 10 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Flagler and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Flagler were with him at the time of the death, as were officials of the Florida East Coast railway. The body will be .L V-. ?ti.oi.Ti r>rnhahlv tnmor sent uy spcwaj uuu, ? row to St. Augustine, where the funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. In this city all business houses were closed during the afternoon and flags were flying at half mast in respect to his memory. The funeral Friday will be attended by hundreds "cf -prominent men from various sections of the United States, and from all along the east coast of this State, which was developed by Mr. Flagler. At. Mr. Flagler's bedside were his son, Harry, who arrived yesterday from Europe, the Rev. Dr. George Morgan, his pastor, who will conduct the funeral services at Sr. Augustine, where the body will be buiied in tho Flagler mausoleum in the yard of the Flagl' r Memorial church which h-e gave to the Presbyterians of that | city. -iCTr- . 3IRS. APPELT ASKED TO RESIGN. Reported for Xot Giving Postoffice Work Personal Attention. Washington, May 19.?The first assistant postmaster general has called for the resignation of Mrs. Appelt as postmistress at 'Manning, because the inspectors report snows tnat sne is not attending to the office personally. This is carrying out the policy recently announced by the postmaster general, that postmasters must give their personal attention to the business of their offices. It is stated that the resignation of Mrs. Appelt will be accepted, if tendered immediately. For some little t.me the postoffice department has been conducting quiet investigations all over the country to see if postmasters are paying the proper personal attention to their work, and it is likely that there will be a good many other cases similar to that at Manning. JACKSON TO MEET CITIZENS. Will Tisit Lexington to Confer on Subject of New Railroad. Lexington, May 20.?James U. Jackson, presiednt of the Georgia & Flor ida railroad, will hold a conference with the business men of Lexington on Thursday evening of this , week, according to a letter received by Dr. P. H. Shealy from President Jackson today. In his letter Mr. Jackson says that he is just back from a ten days' business trip to New York and that be has his railroad matters in good shape. Mr. Jackson will meet the chief engineer of the S-eaboard system in Columbia some time during Thursday for the purpose of perfecting arrangempnte fnr thp ^onnention of the Geor gia & Florida with the Seaboard at \ Cayce. Mr. Jackson will come to Lex-1 ington from Columbia, it is supposed. L?yington is greatly interested in the building of the new railroad. The line surveyed in former years and over which it is thought the new road will likely go, traverses the town of Lexington,* passing through the section between the court house and the TPYin.-rtnn ripnnt The p.omins: of tins road will mean much to this town ancl every effort will be made to securc the road. Report on Liquor Sales. A statement for April shows the' whiskey sales in eight counties to !have been $217,571.57 and ihe operat-4 C\ A ing expenses Jfn.zaj The following statement shows the sales by counties: Aiken. ^ . $ 22,275.80 Beaufort 12,792.75 Charleston 48,896.37 Florence 34,721.44 Georgetown 13,866.37 Richland 72,690.81 ; Jasper 1,294.95 Union 10,103.20 4 Total $217,571.57 A Sunday school teacher said to her boys: "Now I am going to give you three buttons. Here they are! You must 1 think o:? the first as Representing life, the second liberty, and the third happiness. I:i three days I want you to produce these buttons and tell me what they represent." onnftinto/1 flair the tpflfllP'P uu iuc umj i."v asked one of the youngest pupils for the buttons. "I ain't got them all," he sobbed. "Here's life, and here's liberty, but mother went and sewed happiness on my trousers!"?Presbyterian Witness. rm Qualified, Are You? "Oh, by the way, can you cook?" said young Mr. Spudds to Miss Gargoyle. "May I inquire if your query is r\t-/-,tv>r.+q/J Jnv a miitrrmnnifll inolina J piUiilyttU UJ tion?" asked tile young lady. "Why-er-er-well, yes." stammered the young man. "That being the case, I will answer you fully. Yes, I can cook terrapin, canvas-back, brook trout and venison, besides tenderloin steak and other delr*n-ry \rr\ti nrr>vir?A th PTTi in J VyClil j \J u JfA v * v - - - .? their raw state?"?Philadelphia Inquirer. 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Now, therefore, the undersigned, composing the County Board of Education for Newberry County, South Carolina, do hereby order the Board of Trustees of the Pomaria School District No. 26 to hold an election on the said question of levying a 3^ mill tax to be collected on the property located in said School District, which said election shall be held at Anil on/1 Ui-nn'o Ctftro in AUii auu AJLAJJ O UWVA V) AU. MM*v ? School District, No. 26, on Friday, May 30, 1913, at which said election the polls shall be. opened at 7 o'clock in the forenoon and closed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The members of the Board of Trustees of said School District shall act as managers of said election. Only such electors as reside in said School District and re turn real or personal property for taxation, and who exhibit their tax receipts and registration certificates as required in general elections, shall be allowed to vote. 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