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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1911)
LA OU4,NI)E EVENrxa OBSERVER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1911. j f'-" I.: ' . t - . SA . M - BOY WITH DREADFUL MANIA IS SERVING HFE SEMEME. Completed Thirty-Five Tears of JHs Sentence at Boston Todays ,''f. -rt W'ltMV ti l V ! '- . "PA OR 8 EflflSfi OLD ..!-. , . .... .,.3 I A Boston, Sept. 7. After having s?s nt 35 years of his life In a solitary ceil oi "Cherry Hill ," th? stronghold ; of Charle3town stata prison where the life prisoner are" coKflned", Jfsse W. 1 Pomeroy, tb& most notorious of these life prisoners todajentered upon his thirty-sixth year of .solitary conflne- monf. . v r ': .. When Jesse Poineryy entered his prison "cell thirty-live years ago he' was a "youth of about sixteen y-ara; now he is fifty-on? and, notw'Uhstand- Ing the rigor of his confinement whlcn was Interrupted but for a short period during the prtsent year, seems strong, , healthy , and vigorous "physically .. &s ' welt- i--.niBttU,"Tr'rr''v:C r".- ' . Dnring the latter part of 1871' an V the beginning of 1S72 a series of beg-. ; tlal and Indescribably cruel crimes perpetrated upon little boys of ten der age created a perfect, panic in. South Boston and Chelsea. "In every one of the casts the little victim was enticed to some lonely spot by a boy of about twelve or fourteen ; years, stripped, tied to a tree or board and then unmercifully beaten and tortur ed by him. It was many months be fore the police obtained the first clue the. perpetrator of these crimes. In formation given by one of the young victims led to the arrest of Jesse Ponieroy, the son of a poor but re spectable dressmaker. : Jesse Pomeroy at first danltd his guilt but, after he had been confronted -with, several of his victims and defi nitely Identified by them, he broke down and confessed. H'8 could not explain Ws motive and repeatedly as serted that he was driven to these fiendish outrages by (Impulses which Ire could not rfsist. He was tried, found guilty, ad In consideration of his youth sent to the state reform school. At that time degeneracy was not so thoroughly understood as It is now. ' Pomeroy was called a generate, but It was considered more proper to punish him than to treat him as a defective and send him to au asylum wlwre he could have been 'kept under permanent control. .'"..' Pomeroy remained In the reform school seventeen months, always play ing the model prisoner. Ite acted the part so successfully that he deceived his mother, several clergymen and a j number of charitably Inclined women. Between them they succeeded In pro curing Jesse Pomeroy's release with out first having him examined by an - alienist. This was in February, 1874. Scarcely one month later a little girl named Katie Curran disappeared on her way to school and although ai thorough search was made extending j over many monins, noi a iraca oi mo . . . 'Child could be found. mentallsts Induced the governor thU Later In the snme year a clam- - 81)ring to allow Pomeroy more free dlgger of South Boston, in crossing dorai DUt nB privilege as soon revoked a :Koya iMor Mai The man who ; wears tailor made clothes is interested in knowing how and under what conditions his clothes are made. Royal tailored-to-order clothes are made in the atmosphere ;of , sunshine in shops that are belted with half a thousand story-spanning window--m f studios bathed in ventilation and sunlight You men who wish to appear at your best, who wish to have first call from the meri higher,up in"the business world, must look prosperous.'; Noth ing can give you this distinction like a Royal tailored-to-your-order suit. v.p r rs- THE CLOTHES DO WOT MAKE THE MAN but they help. We can give yoq a choice of one thousand cloths. Better than ypu can get elsewhere; hot a thread of cotton in any piece; an absolutely guaranteed fit or no sale better than you can do elsewhere, and the satisfaction of knowing you are one of thebest dressed men in town. Come in and leave your measure for the best tailored suit in the world. With all these iron-clad guarantees, why wear ready mad!e clothes? MEN WHO KNOW wear Royal Taored-fo-Order Cloihes. PRICES: Popular Prices Rule Here Suiis $18,00 Up. The remains were brought to the ; sleep of the Just about that hour he tM marsh back of the Washington village, South Boston, found the hor ribly mutilated body of a small boy who was afterward Identified as Hor ace Mlllen. The crime was evidently j the work of a degenerate and. remem bering the record of Jesse Pomeroy, -the police arrested him and took him to the morgue where the body of the little boy lay upon a stone slab. The : sight of the mutilated corpse so un-1 nerved Ponieroy that he confessed his guilt and also admitted that hs had tortured and murdered little Katie 'Curran. Iter rautiluted and decom posed body was found burled under -ashes and rubbish In the cellar of "Mrs. Pomeroy's house. The confession of these crimes cre ated the most Intense feeling among the people of South Boston and Chel sea and Poraeroy would have been lynched had 1 not been for the pre- -cautions of the authorities. His trial when the discovery was made that ha had used his greater freedom to plan his escape and had even obtained possession of a steel saw. MAN morgue of Leffel & Reach at Joseph. Lord was employed by Col. Graves, acd at the time of his death was. en gaged In moving camp for his sheep outfits. He was torn at Dayton, Wish. will not be able to boast on his return to Beverly that his trip Included a glimpse of the famous Grande Ronda valley. His stop at Boise Is such as to positively forbid his arrival In La G-.nde much before the midnight hour TWO ROOMS IN IT DEATH THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN THROWN FROM HORSE. ; - Found Dead In Big She p Caavon Where Threw II Im Rwntlj. Joseph, Ore., Sept. . The body of James William Lord was found yea- . i av. ,i nni. !.. ' terday afternoon in the canyons It 1IUILVU Ul V"' uuj w..i4 uiii j i youth of the prisoner saved him from i the vicinity of Peter Baudan's salt the gallows. H was sentenced to j cabins on Big Shetp, about 25 miles spend the remainder of his life In soil- j from Joseph. The county coroner was tary confinement in Charlestown prla- j notified who immediately proceeded to on. i the place, and upon Inquest decided Durlnar the first ten years of his that Lord had come to his death by Imprisonment Pomeroy made sevteral being thrown from his horse onto the attempts to break out of Jail, but they rocks, death evidently having been ln were frustrated by the watchfulnejs stantaneous, as the only bruises to b of hit guards. A number of sentl- found on the body weret on the had. S i and was about 33 years of age. He is i ,f he coraeg tnen- may have htt suivlved by a brother, Edward Lord, j car attached to No. G. ; . living near Enterprise. The remains;. M,8 itinerary for this part of the will be buried at Pine Creek on Wed- rountry Is as follows. . . nesday afternoon, beside those of his pocatello and. Boise, Ida.. October parents. , l 6: Walla Walla, Lewlston,( Moscow, I . ' j c'a., and Spokane, October 7; Llnd, Eellensburg and Tacoma, Wash.. Oct. 8; Bellngham, Mount Vernon, Ever It't and Seattle,' October 9; Seattle I nod Tacoma. October : 10; - Tacoma, , Clrmnla. Centralla. Chehalls, Castle Rock, Kelso, Kalama, Vancouver, Wash.. Portland and Salem, Ore.. Oc tober 12; Sacramento and San Fran cisco, October 14 and 15; Los Angeles October 16 and 17; Salt Lake, October 18; Butte, Llvingson, BllUngs. Mont., October 19; Sheridan, Gillette, New castle, Wyo., October 20. .Then east to Chicago, .Pittsburg and ending at Washington. TAFTTO THROUGH CITY lTIMEWARY BRINGS HIM HERE AT HTDXIGHT. , ; Nearest Approach to Seeing President . of United States Id Years, President William H. Taft, chief ex ecutive of the United States, will pass through La Grande on the night of October 6th ut it will be In the dead ot night and La Grande citizens need not txpect to see him. He Is due here about midnight, according to hls.pre nrrjnzed Itinerary and as the execu- Oplum Storehouse Found. Seattle, Sept. ' 7. More than $1,200 worth ot opium was found by th-s cus tom officials today In a room occupied by J. X. Brown who was arrested on n smuggling charge. It Is said the drug was brought from Vancouver and that tlve will undoubtedly be sleeping the; other arrests may be expected. CITY ROBBED TROUSERS DRAGGED TO C0BRI .' DOR AND MONEY TAKEN. Two Rooming Houses on Adams Ave , nue Enten d and Robbed Last Night. Two daring robberies were success fully enacted last night when two rooming houses were entered and rob bed. ' A room at the Crawford rooming house on Adams avenue was entered and a pair of trousers containing about $50 In money and a gold watch were dragged to the corridor and there relieved of all valuables. The loss was discovered this morning when the victim, who Is a railroader, arose to dresB. : ' The, Ronde Valley House also on Adams avenue was also entered an! a roomer relieved of valuables. The city police authorities think the pres ent tendencies toward Increasing rob berlas and attempted robberies la to be blamed to the Influx of bad men to Pendleton for the Round-Up. Pen dleton is already said to 'be filling up with bad fellows and the police there Is redoubling Its vigilance to keep order. . ' " ' ' . Wolgnst at Hard Work. Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 7.-"-Ad Wol gast, champion lightweight, who l snatched with Packy McFarland for ten round bout here September 15 et tled down to steady training today. E ' says be Is already down to the recruirei weight of 133 pounds. 7Z -J