Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1920 — RESPITE AFTER 40 YEARS IN SOLITARY CELL [ARTICLE]

RESPITE AFTER 40 YEARS IN SOLITARY CELL

Joseph Pomeroy, who has, served forty years in solitary confinement, is to appear in public for the first time since he was a boy, at a min-, strel show to be given the inmates of the state prison situated at Boston. The life convict will take part in the show as a reader of hds own poems. . .■. z. Pomeroy turned' several years ago from plotting to escape to writing poetry after his twelfth attempt at escape. Since that time the prisoner has written regularly 1 for the prison paper, his poems appearing under the name “Grandpa,” Pomeroy is sixty years old. He has been in prison since his seventeenth year for crimes committed as a boy.