Boy Fiends In Boston

(South Boston, unknown)


Born in a Boston slum
cursed

Sewer overflow
Dorchester Bay

"It would seem like
rotten eggs,

like rotten cabbage,"
A stench for killers

1879: Escape attempt. Unsuccessful.
1880: Escape attempt. Unsuccessful.
1880: Second escape attempt. Unsuccessful.


(Fig.165 Neonatology)


That is not a human-sized head
Not for a boy

The stigmata of degeneration
The limited intelligence
The blind and milky white eye
a dirty marble
"You could barely look
at
it."
Without a shudder


(Jesse Pomeroy (detail) by Hueyinozkan )


1887: Escape attempt. Unsuccessful.
1887: Second escape attempt. Unsuccessful.
Funnel gas
and ignite it
1897: Escape attempt. Unsuccessful.

Only his youth can save him

The stab of the knife,
The puncture of the awl
The prick of the pin

At fourteen he was arrested for murder.


(Massachusetts Department Of Mental Deficiencies)


His rampage had begun three years earlier
Sexual torture
Seven boys
The scamp of the inhuman
An awful, oozing pulp
Gathering eyes with fishhooks
Slashing flesh with pocketknives


1911: Escape attempt. Unsuccessful.
1913: Escape attempt. Unsuccessful.


Sometimes a boy was found tied to a tree
Sometimes in an old barn
On some railroad
On a telegraph pole


Jesse Always Silent


Monday-Bread and coffee at morning and night: dinner, mush.
Tuesday-Hash for dinner: bread and coffee all the mornings and nights.
Wednesday-Beans. P.S.-They were splendid, you bet.
Thursday-Fish chowder.
Friday-Soup (meat)
Saturday-Beans.
Sunday-Beans or whatever is left from the front part.


1930: Escape attempt. Unsuccessful


(PopTartPomeroy By Saint Flit)