Wichita eagle., 1889-09-13
DROVE A DOG TO SUICIDE.
HEATHENS OF THE STREETS PUR-
SUE AND A CROWD LOOKS ON.
The Poor, Painting Brute Deliberately Lies
Down Twice On the Pavement in Front
A Bullet Ends His Pains.

Down Twice On the Pavement in Front
of Truck-wounded. but Not Killed.
A Bullet Ends His Pains.
s'Here, gimme that stone: / can fire
straighter than you, and I'll hit him in der
neck
He was barefooted, hstless, coatless boy
There were dozen Of the young rascais, and
they were chasing poor dog down Wooster
street Yesterday The dog was q hoo6lum,
too-a shabby uongrel with leather strap
about his neck and bit of rope hanging from
the strap. He had been foraging in the gar
bage barrels when the boys got at him
Stones, sticks, anything they could pick UP
they fired at the dog. He was big fellow,
who, despite his lack Of flesh, weighed per-
haps sixty pounds, and If he hadn't been so
worn out by hunger and so weary by the
chase, it is more than likely he could have
turned about and made his mark in the
annals of Bleecker street.
TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
But he didn't have spunk enough TO fight,
and at Prince street be tried 10 escape by
lodging uptoward Broadway. 1t was about
1915 a. NJ when the dog and the boys got TO
Broadway, and straightway there was hub
the shops came to the windows, stood in the
doorways, and some went out upon the street
to see the cause of all the excitement. A few
canicidal souls raised the cry of mad dog"
Tired dog or scared dog would have fitted
the circumstances better. The dog painted
and painted, and more than once slipped as
he ran Some of the stones had hit him, and
there were marks on his body where he had
I'LL lid lr--
When the dog had got about in front of
Niblos he turned and looked at his enemies.
They were as relentless as ever and their
chance to stand right over the dog and pelt
him was greater than it had been at any
other point in the hunt. The dog seemed TO
take all this in, and, giving up his straight
run up the street, he cut OF suddenly across
the roadway, and, reaching the car tracks,
stood there for moment N apparent doubt.
On both sides Of the street were hundreds OF
men. They stood up on their ends the same
as the boys did; they had white faces like
the boys; they all seemed just as much his
foes as did the boys, and if dogs can reason
at all, this dog had to reason that there was
not one man in all that crowd who would be
his protector. Perhaps the dog reasoned that
there was no way of escape; perhaps that,
try to run where he might, he would be
stoned and kicked; perhaps he didn't reason
at all, but it appeared to scores of men ON
the street that the pursued creature did hest
tate before doing what won from ali who saw
it an ejaculation of pity.
He had reached the car track. No car was
coming, but Just few feet away heavy
truck, drawn by team Of bay horses, was
rumbling along. The dog had halted at the
track and looked around at all the crowd that
seemed new allies of the band that had hec
tored him SO long. He gave glance at them,
and then, with all the slowness of human de-
liberation, he walked TO the track and lay
down The crowd could see that the feet of
the big horses must trample upon the dogs
body, and that then the wheels would pass
over him. Any dog of ordinary sense would
have known the same thing, and this dog
seemed to know it. he lay down on the
track, with his head right over the rail The
driver could not stop his team, and when the
horses reached the dog a shout went up from
those who saw the horses feet just Craze the
dogs neck The heavy truck pushed the dog
off the track out Of harms way. The dog was
safe
THE wFT COME RI-IIFT