Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-22
A DOG DIRECTIVE.
A Canine Who Assists in the Arrest OF Grim
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New York Commerciai-Advertiscr.l

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Among the early morning visitors at po-
lice headquarters to-day was Policeman
Jack. OF the Seventeenth precinct, who
came over with his master, Captain Nc
Cullacb, on an unwonted excursion
from the East side. Jack seldom
goes outside the precinct where he
does ,atrol duty, he never asks for day
of. and Is known TO have been on only one
spree In the three years OF his connection
with the department. He Is the only men,
Der OF the force who cannot be made 10
discard his shaggy black coat for the regu-
lation blue, and who works for his board.
In all other respects he Is model police.
man: though be Is only big black dog Of
the mastiff breed, the department has none
with better record.
One dark, stormy night, three winters
ago, Jack. wet, hungry, and forlorn, made
up to Policeman Trass, on Avenue A, and
on the basis OF q good, square meal OF
meat-scraps. purchased at the nearest res
taurant. established an understanding with
him that has lasted ever since. Every
night thereafter for six months Jack met
him on his post and left him there at mid
night. lie has since shown on many occa-
sions that what he then learned he remem-
hers, for he stands credited upon the books
OF the department with having made no
less than twenty-five arrests, some OF
them ms clever as any made by Inspector
Byrne's detectives. and he brought his man
in every time. II was not until he was
thoroughly broken into the service that he
consented to 90 to the Fifth-Street station
and receive an introduction TO Captain
McCulagh and Sergeant Welsing, whom
he since has made his special friends,
while Undermining generally with the men.
lis home "a now there in the daytime. At
night he patrols the precinct with deyo-
ton 10 duty that Is good example
to his comrades. Dog-catchers give him
a wide berth, recognizing that he is
about his business and would generally be
an unsafe investment. He joined Police
lnau Max Fisher on his post in Thirteenth
street last Tuesday night. Cries Of " MUIR
der ~ were raised on Third avenue. and
two men ran rapidly down the street. Fish
or started in pursuit and overlook one.
while Jack seized the other by the coat
collar and laid him on his back-his favor
tie mode Of downing" malefactors. The
two prisoners, who had attempted to rob
man on Third avenue, were marched to the
station-hOuse by their captors. Jack never
bites prisoner, but persuades them into
the path Of penance by the irresiSt-
ible grip of his mighty jaws on their coat
collars. More than once he has arrested
an evIl.doer on his own hook and brought
him in unaided. Perhaps his most.famOus
exploit was the arrest OF a burglar at No.
300 east Eleventh street at l O'Clock on the
morning OF April 9Th. Two burglars were
rummaging q room on the second floor,
where Frederick BOckel lay asleep, undis-
turbed by their presence. TO save carrying
them down they threw some clothes ont
OF the window, as it happened, just when
Jack was passing. The dog shifted
the clothes, concluded something was
wrong. and, bounding up stairs, reused
the house by his barking. Mr. Bockel
woke up and found himself confronted by
the two thieves. who attacked him aud were
beating him when the door gave way, and
Jack, rushing in, seized and upset one Of
them and held him fast. The other escaped
by rushing down and jumping over
fence, where Jack could not follow him.
A policeman came, attracted by the rumpuS,
and took the burglar TO the station. lie
proved TO be q well.knOwn criminal, John
Smith alias Kelly by name. He was sent
to prison for ten years for his share in the
burglary.
Recently Jack stopped a fight on Third
avenue, and while Roundsma1 O'ltOurke,
who is among his firm friends, attended to
the man who had got the worst Of it he ar
rested his adversary. a week or two ago.
when trouble was threatened at a boxing
match between negroes At Clarendon Hail,
and CAPTAIN MCCullagh was com oelled t.
interfere. il was Jack who attended to the
clearing Of the hall.
Jack despises mixing himself up in ca
nine qusrrcls, but when, last week, he was
inyeigled into barn up town 10y an expo
liccman and matched against a fighting
bull dog. he killed it in short order. The
other dogs friends, in revenge. shot him,
and Jack limpcd home with bullet in his
left fore-paw. He was cared for. and his
fellow-p policemen Paid for regular surgical
attendance for him till he hadfully recovered.
The only regular spree on which jack i
known to have been was when he went
up to observation-disclosures street
with some brewers. and got full on beer.
but even then the accidental appearance OF
Roundsman O'Rourke. who happened TO
stroll that way, recalled him to duty, and
he left the rioters to join the policeman.
Jack enjoyed the honor Of being The first
dog 10 cross the Brooklyn bridge on OPEN
ing day. He marched ahead OF the process
sion. II is not improbable that the police
commissioners will some day put him on
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