Show FAMOUS LIFER STILL FIGHTS TO SEE WORLD jesse pomeroy denied all pleas for liberty still hopes doston boston the doors ot of the charles TO 11 state prison clanged behind him blin 50 years ago when he be was wab a stripling of seventeen today he la Is a grizzled old man of sixty seven but he still Is lighting fighting fighting lighting fighting in the hope that some day he will get out to see the hie modern world about which he his has read so much ile he wants to see a 2 trolley car to ride la in an automobile to lo fly over the mountain tops in an airplane jesse pomeroy the most famous lifer alfer in all america has written a really graphic poem 0 on a the flying machine although 20 years of his time has hag been spent la in solitary confinement pomeroy Por neroy does doeg not feel that the world has passed him by his solitary was done years ago when he be was young and rebellious and fought and broke all the prison rules for the last two tuo decades jesse has been what they always call the model prisoner sues boston woman that Is why he has entered suit for libel against a dotson botson woman who wrote rote a letter to a newspaper claiming that pomeroy roi neroy had skinned alive a little kitten placed in his cell pomeroy feels eels this letter has prejudiced the public against him again and ruined his chances for parole or pardon perhaps for years to come and so he sais lie he had been damaged worth Pome roys halt half century of confinement has been spent under the very shadow of dunker bunker mil hill pomeroy has just suffered another setback the refusal of governor Goer nor fuller to consider him for a pardon when pomeroy was fourteen it was charged he had murdered a four year old boy J round found with his throat cut and 15 5 stab wounds in ills his little body three years yeara later pomeroy was convicted and sentenced to be hanged the alie governor commuted the sentence t I 1 he Is an read readar r to life imprisonment because of the lads youth the boy fiend the fiend incarnate as he was called at the time entered the state prison september 9 1370 and lie he has been there ever since perhaps if ills his suit stilt for libel Is permitted to stand in the courts lie he may get out to attend the trial perhaps that chance mathei than the need for damages tins has prompted him ito in the suit there Is further explanation of the libel action in the fact that pomeroy has come to consider himself an able lawyer me ile has read and studied law for years giving especial attention of course to murder trials not many years ago lie he prepared what was pronounced a very able brief on ills his case and tried to get permission to argue it before the supreme judicial court of massachusetts he was denied the request ns as lie lias has been denied every request looking to ills his liberty student of languages pomeroy lias has studied languages and Is proficient in at least four Per perhaps blips lie hopes to do a little world travel before his days tire are coded lie ile also tins has studied nod and la 19 well read in history ills turn for poetry Is not at all bad and lie Is one of the most valued to the prison magazine prison fare and prison days even the 20 years of solitary have not broken jesse Piu eroy ire he Is in good physical condition for a man of ills his age lie ile Is an omnivorous reader and in that way feels eels lie he tins has kept up with tile the progress of the world ilas has kept step better lie he belle believes e s than alie unobservant and the illiterate among the free men who lie see but do not onder understand der stand modern inventions interest Poi neroy hugely the picture papers and magazines are arc his hobby he believes he could step out into the world tomorrow and probably never dever get a thrill for lie he hns hits visualized all that ls Is taking place and lila ills imagination tins line carried him far affeld the old prisoner Is described today as a good religious man but no warden as yet ever recommended his release he to 1 popular in the prison however mid and does his work well t |