Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-09-07 | Page 1 | Man Ends Fiftieth Year behind Bars

Man Ends Fiftieth y Year e Behind Bars Convict 65 Has Spent 41 Years in Solitary Confinement BOSTON Se Sept t. t 7 AP Jesse AP-Jesse Jesse Hartling Harding Pomeroy state prisons prison's oldest lifer today rounded out fifty years behind the bars forty- forty one of them a span of ot living Jiving death In solitary confinement Sixty-five Sixty years old and still hopeful of ultimate ultimate ultimate ulti ulti- mate freedom Pomeroy is believed to have set a record for prison en ea en- en durance The prison doors closed behind him in 1876 as a year old boy C Convicted of ot first degree murder and sen sentenced to be hanged his extreme youth won commutation to toliCe life liCe Imprisonment and solitary con con- In such a state he grew rew through young manhood to middle age and nine olne years ago came into the comparative comparative com corn freedom of ot the prison building an old man Annually his mother carried her fight tight for a pardon pardon pardon par par- don to the governor Annually her request was refused and since her death Pomeroy has continued the unsuccessful fight lone alone