Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-31
A CAT OF HIGH DEGREE.
Detective Price Returns Bim to the
Bosom of His Family.

Bosom OF h1s Family
From, the Ns1o York Times.
Capt. Williams called Detective Price
into his room at the Twenty-ninth pre-
clnct station house one evening last week.
There was look of mystery on the
stslwart Captains face, and Price pre-
pared himself tor a revelation, DR..
Pussybora has mysteriously disappeared
from his home, No. 8 West Twenty first
street." said the Captain, land | want
YOU TO do all you can TO find him. Price
hurried round to the number indicated,
which was formerly the residence Of Gen.
Dix. 1t IS now occupied by Mrs. Cordelia
Cook, wealthy widow, who lives there
with an unmarried daughter. He had ex-
pected to be confronted with q hideous
mystery, but when he made his inquiries
he was knocked silly" as he himself eX.
pressed it In confidence 10 a friend, on
finding the missing doctor was feline OF
the masculine gender.
Mrs. Cook is fond OF pets, and had in her
house two cats and tame squirrel, who
all slept together and constituted happy
family. One OF the cats, a large, fine ami.
NAL, black as coal, with yellow eyes, was
presented TO her by a medical friend, and
he was named "Dr. Pussy bora, !" but was
known simply as the doctor. lie was given
w nUbNuAndA AdiuUtGHs anu 10 AtGmm0-
date him the basement window was left
open in place OF giving him latch kew.
One night, about five weeks ago, the
doctor started out on one Of his midnight
excursions. He crossed over 20 the
yard OF the church ut Fifth avenue
and Twenty-frst street, where he
met congenial companion. They
were holding sweet communion in the
churchyard when a dude came along and
SHE'D his cane at the lovers. They sepa.
rated. The Doctors inamorata climbed
up the water pipe to the roof OF the
church, but in trying 10 get down again
she fell headlong into the pipe, and was
found there suffocated the next morning.
The doctor disappeared. carrying with
him his name and address on his silver
collar.
When he did not return home the next
day Mrs. Cook became alarmed and had
the neighhorhOOd searched for her pet, but
without avail. The lady mourned him as
one dead until week ago, when she re-
ceiyed postal card telling her
that her cat was ut No. l04 seventh
street. Mrs. Cook sent TO that number a
young man 70 make Inquiries. He
found there q Mrs. Fredericks, a Ger
man woman whose husband keeps a lager
beer saloon at No. sos Sixth street. The
young man could not speak German, and
as the woman's knowledge OF English il
extremely limited, they did not get along
very well. The woman evidently mis-
understood the object OF his call and
"tred' him out Of the place unceremoni-
ously. He returned 70 Mrs Cook greatly
discounted. Then the lady called on
Capt. Williams, and thus secured
the services OF Detective Price. with the
detective Mrs. Cook went 10 Fredericks'
saloon on Saturday hint fha doeto,. 80,
not there, but ho was found subsequently,
IN another saloon on Second avenue. His
silver collar WAS gone, and DO was alto
gether n sadder cat than when ne deserted
his home. He IS now installed In his old
quarters, and on the books at the Twenty.
ninth precinct station house is a receipt
for Doctor Pussyb0ra.