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Show POMEROY, THE BOY MURDERER'S MUR-DERER'S ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL. i Now that the question of the commutation com-mutation ol the death sentenco of Jcsso H. Fomcroy is settled, an item of news that we have retrained from publishing on account of the injury it might work to the one whoso tile was pending before tho executive council, ' may as well be made public. It has, been announced that I'omoroy once attempted to escape by working the bricks from his cell with tho wiro takeh from tho rim of his wash basin, and thai be asked the nesistanco of his mother, whom be wrote to Bend a file in a banana; but that Jesse Pom-erov Pom-erov has. since Ihb confinement in Charles street jail, mado four deeper-: ate Jack Sheppard attempts to escape is not generally known. The last attempt was whilo his case was being considered by the governor and council, coun-cil, and was not made public becauo it might bring too strong a prejudice to bear upon the authorities. On the Fourth of July last Jesse's mother sent him srjme ice cream in ft' tin pad. Had it been any other article it would have been placed in another dish. Ho had this tin, perhaps, per-haps, two hours, and in that time he ingeniously drew the wire Irom the! rim, and turned down the edge again! so tiiat to the officer the article ap- ! pcarcd all right- It, of course, required re-quired much strongth to do this, but Fomoroy is a, powerful man now, with large hones and iron muscles, much above the average of full-grown men. With this wire he took from the wall near tho lloor and under tho ventilator a flat, sharp piece ol brick, about an eighth of the size ol an ordi- ,-,arv l.rw-L- wliifh ho hrnL-n intn other pieces and wrapped iu his blanket. The doora of the jail cells are made of j heavy round iron bars, intersected with a tew (l it bars. It was Pome-1 roy's custom to sit at his cell door reading, with his feet on tho lower bar. Sitting in this posture, with his head bent over a hook in his lap, he would hold a small piece of brick in his hand and saw upon the round bars under one of the flat cross bars. fu this way, in two or three days, ho cut one bar half ofl and another bar throe quarters ofl. But in tho thorough search which he was subjected sub-jected to every day, these proceedings were discovered, and be was removed i to another cell. It was the custom to j change the cell evtry week, but since ( then lie has boen removed from one! cell to another every day. I The anxiety attending the care of: such a desperado, and the trouble the officers have been put to every day to I search each article of his apparel and i every brick of his cell, made the I news of his removal (mm their charge I a welcome message, and ho would have been sent to prison to day if the papers could havo been procured. I Fomcroy will be removed to tho. state prison the first of next week, j The executive will then direct whether I ho shall he confined iu a single cell j or work with tiie other prisoners; but' probably the former coun;o will bej adopted, as in the new state prison j building at Concord there are several ; working cells where prisoners can be ( kept at work and yet in solitary con- ; tinemeut. Uojton Tdns:ti).l. |