The Boy Monster

I have ' ;n ten feet of Jesi=e Pomeroy' ., in the vast gray walïs i ' ■■;-. jipnitentiary, the r.tran heing who once bre I bidden away from (he sight torever in a living death. the coming generatlon and fi by the passing one. He hai M. much larger than the Oí whlch the sunüght :■ Boston 'wrlter. Hls room is ncat. and he himself is the personlfieation ' neatness. Upon this he prides hlms If. He wears a beard, which is ! tly trlmmed. He changes tl . slonally te suit himself. and displays as much taste and is as wtll aware of what is beeoming as the mos! -uisite man of fashion. "But le lie wei:?" I asked of the one who gave me this information, and one who knows. "Aa well as .rou are," was the reply, "and he looks weH." "People say a man cannot live without exercise. The oniy exercise he gets s in his ceil, v:.lking up and down, yet no one could possibly be healthier than he is. So far as I know, he has never knovrn a sick day and he has been a prisoner in absolutely solitary conflnement for sixtetn years. He Is a great reader and student. He speaks three different langui-ges. He does not want to work, but prefers his books." "Does he seem to have any curlosity about the ov.tside world?" I asked. "Yes, I presume so, aith'ough he never asks. He do-s not ask privileges; no doubt he realtzes it would be in vain. me only ravor he "nas ar.ked of Gen. Bridges stnce he has been warden was permisskm tö keep the box his holiday things camp In. l'hls favor had been granted to li; 11 once beíore, and he used the co----r to hide a lióle he had dug in the v!i. "If he f!tï a penknife or a spoon, the probabilitles ave he will commence and dig. The walls are so tbick it is impossible for him to escape, and no doubt he does it to mak? the prison officials uneasy, more than anything else. He is a remarkably good-looking man, a man, in fact. If you should pass his cell, ignorant of his name, you would comment upon his appearance and seloct him as a man much above the ordinary." It is said that either his hearing is supernatura'iv acute or else he is possessed of some strange sixth sense, enabling him lo know things that have transpirad before the guards themselves. One ir.stance of this is related. A couple of reara aio the prisoners were all assembled in the chapel awaiting the annual announcement of the governor's pardons. Before the convicts' cheers which grpeted the lucky onos had died out, Prison Physician McLaughlin ha,d occasion to attend a prisoner located in the same tier as eroy. As the doctor passed Jesse's cell he called to the doctor, saying-, "So the governor has pardoned tvo men," and gïving thelr r.nmes. The doctor has never been able to understand how Porreroy knew of these names. Not half a dozen people have seen him since he was a bo; , and he has seen no woman's face but his molher's since his inCBxceration.