Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-11-14
A Dog That Knows Its Business.
New York Mail and ExpressJ

usual.
A Dog That Knows Hts Business.
New York Mail and ExpressJ
The clerks at police headquarters
finished their work on the pay-rolls OF
the department to-day, and the men,
bers of "the finest" with one excep-
tiop, will receive their salaries for Oc-
tober on Monday next. This exception
is Policeman Jack, Of the Seventeenth
precinct, who has served the force for
five years, and has never drawn penny
Of salmy. Policeman Jack is a big
black mastifi, and is regarded as one of
the most remarkable dogs Of the age.
II is rare thing that Jack is found
outside the limits Of his own precinct.
lie never asks for day off, and has
never been on but one spree since he
ioined the force. His is the only case
IN which the Commissioners have per-
mitttd policeman to 60 on patrol
without first providing himself with the
regulation blue Of the department.
No charges have ever been made against
Jack. lie has never dubbed an in
Offensive citizen. Nor has be ever de-
handed hush-money from any one who
has violated the lay. Altogether Jack
is a MODEL officer. One dark, bluStery
night about five years ago Jack, who
was then vagrant, made up to PATROL
man TrasS in Avenue A and managed
TO ingratiate himself into that officers
good graces. Poor Jack WAS shiveriDg,
vet, and hungry, and the kind-hearted
Trass took him TO restaurant near by
and got him a good meal Of scraps
from the carver's block of the estab-
lishment. For six months after this
Jack and TraSs patrOlled the same post.
The changes made in the officers tour
Of duty did not disconcert Jack. lie
soon learned to calculate the time
when Trass should appear on post
and was always there when that
officer showed up. Though his home
is row at the Fifth.street station,
he is only there during the day. At
night he accompanies the officers Of
that squad around their beats, Officer
Trass bad much difficulty in getting
/ Jack to 90 to the station-house in the
beginning, but finally succeeded, and
in a short time all the men, from Cap
tain McCullagh down, became Jack s
special friends.
Like other good policemen, Jack has
clean record. lie is credited with
many arrests, and since his connection
with the fcrco has lent valuable aid to
the officers of bis precinct in similar
undertakings. lie has killed his do,
and carries a scar in consequence on
bis left fOrepaw, where he was shot by
The friends Of tho dog that ne hal
killed. Jack was forced into this fight,
His opponent was big bulldog, but
he wiped him out in short order. Two
years ago Jack and Policeman Max Fisher
going down Thirteenth street, when
the cry of Murder :" vas heard. 1t
came from Third avenue. Two men
we're seen running down the street,
and Fisher and Jack started after them.
Fisher captured one and Jack fastened
bis teeth IL the other ones cost-collar
and laid him on his hack. IL turned
cut these tYo men had tried to rob q
man. A few DAYS later Jack stopped
fcht on Third avenue aud arrested
The man that began it, while Rounds
man O'Rourke attended to the mar
Who bad got the worst Of 1t. 1T
boxing match between two negroes II
Clarei don, a little while before this
Captain McCullagh found it necessary
to interfere aud step the fight. Jack
however. did tho hard work. lie
cleared the hall in less time than il
takes 10 tell il.
The arrest Of Johnny Smith, di1'
Kelly, on the morning Of April 5, 1854
while he was burglarizing the house
No. 900 east Eleventh street is jacks
most famous piece Of work. II va
about O'Clock; two burglars wer'
! rsnsacking a room on the second foo
occupied by Frederick Bockel, who wa
/, asleep at the time and undisturbed b,
I, the burglars presence. To save car
. rying their plumber down the stairs tn
y burglars threw it out Of the window
: Jack was passing at the time. II
! suited the clothes, and concluding
: something was wrong he bounded u
the stairs and aroused the house. Mr.
Boekel awoke and was set upon by tn
burglars, who were beating him whe
Jack rushed into the room. The do
:, seized Smith and held him until po
: liceman arrived and took him TO Ia
7, Ststiop-houSe. The other burgla
|. managed to get away. Smith is nov
! serving ten years for this burglary
Jack once went on spree with nun
Der OF brewers up in Northumberland
|. SEVENTEEN street and got full on beer
he was the first dog that crossed tn
Brooklyn bridge, aud is never molesie'
by the dog-cstchers. The only wronI
done This noble snimal is that he il
not included among tho members o
the force mentioned in the book know
as "0ur Police Protectors,'
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Hesdacho and Dyspepsia.