Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-29
Police Notes.


 The police detectives are still searching for evidence as to the death of Ida s. Perkins, who was victim of abortion i'll this city They are non committal as to their clues Coroner Bollrnan is still Investigating the matter. He was out of town yesterday, but whether on this business is unknown. The funeral services of the dead girl were at- tended in Hartford on Wedn esday.
 Two men snatched pair of shoes each from the front of shoe store in Chapel street, this side of the New Haven Opera House. Tuesday, and escaped with them, go ing down the railroad track. Yesterday morning Officers Brewer and Reilly arrested Owen McMullen, one of the thieves, at his home in Hamilton street. One of the stolen pair of shoes was in his possession.
 Terrible Encounter With a Savage Dog. A young, savage and powerful bloodhound at S. E. Merwin $ Go. s packing house, on Crescent street, on Wednesday attacked Mir. Charles H. Nichols, the bookkeeper at the establishment, and terrible encounter en- sued The animal had frequently shown the treacherous disposition characteristic to this dangerous and very unsafe class of the canine creation, and had manifested savage ferocity which the watchman punished by throwing hot water on him from the office kettle This treatment had until recently proved efectual, but one night in repeating the punishment the watchnen was attacked and driven behind the desk railing and i'm prisoned there for two hours. The watch man refrained from dispatching the animal with revolver he had with him because of the dogs value. Mir. Nichols, the book. keeper, had maintained friendly relations with the uncertain beast, and always treated him with uniform kindness. Wednesday afternoon at about 3 o'clock MT. Nichols fooled with the dog a little and then went to work, and the dog fell asleep near the stove. About half an hour after Mir. Nichols, having occasion to fill the kettle with water, acci- dentally touched the dog with his foot. The dog looked up at him with half shut eyes, but on seeing the kettle in MT. Nichols hand became uncon- trollably enraged and sprang at the book keepers throat. Mir. Nichols dropped the kettle and grasped the dog by the throat, and fearful contest took place, lasting several Nichols who, penned up behind the hot stove, was lilly able to defend him. self Most fortunately customer, MT. James Farrell came in and comprehendlng the true state or the case shouted up stairs for help. An employe grabbed cleaver and rushed to the scene. MT. Farrell seizing the cleaver struck at the dog terrific blow, which split his nose. The dog turned on Mr. Farrell and MT. Farrell struck him again, cutting off one of the dogs legs. The dog still leaped at Mir. Farrells throat, and only succumbed when his skull was split open. MT. Nichols, when MT. Farrell appeared, tainted with fright and exhaustion, and Dr. Dibble was sent for, who brought the young man to conscious ness and cauteriEed the wounds. The in- jured man was bleeding terribly from his arm, one of the arteries of which had been severed by the dog, and in his left wrist was bite fully an inch deep, and there were some twenty other bad bites. In taking the young man to his home, 189 Wooster street, and shortly after starting, he tainted again and had to be carried back to the packing house and restoratives again applied. It was not until or 9 in the evening that he had recovered sufficiently to be taken home. Yesterday he was very weak, but sitting up. and quite confident that no serious results would occur. There ought to be g law against the keeping of bloodhounds. There are several dogs of this breed in the thickly settled parts of the city, and human life is not safe where they arc.
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