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Show Son Has Been in Solitary Soli-tary Confinement . For 35 Years Bostou, Sept. 8. Jesse ' Pomcroy, Massachusetts' most famous prisoner, prison-er, who is serving a life sentence for murder, entered upon his thirty-fifth year of solitary confinement today. Pomcroy entered the state prison when he was 16 yearB of age. Today he Is 51 and has served longor than any other prisoner In solitary confinement con-finement in the Unttcd States. While the terms of his sentence require that he shall bo kept In solitary -confinement as Jong, as he HyeSj he goes Into the yard" an hoorcach ' djty. for air. This, however,-Is dufjng the time the rest of the prisoners are In the shops, and he has no communication with anyone, noe even a guard. For the thirty-four years he has been confined, his mother has never given up tho fight o alleviate his condition. Sho had almosl succeeded In winning a commutation for him a few months ago when all her pbnv wore broLght to naught by the discovery dis-covery of a sharp tool in his cell, wlllch the prison officials declaro ho meant to use In an attempt to escape. |