The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-07
HE BIT OFF DOOR KNOBS.
Destruction of Property Wrought by
a Mysterious Cur.
From the Philadelphia Times.

a Mysterious Cur.
From the Philadelphia Times
A mysterious dog, big as a calf, ugly as
Cerberus and vicious as Snarleyow, created
| a reign of terror in the ordinarily placid
vicinity of Seventeenth street and Columbia
avenue in the small hours of last Saturday
morning and accomplished a remarkable
| amount of destruction to property besides
making a rather ridiculous showing of the
police department. he did not conduct
himself like mad dog. He was sober and
| methodical and his evident intention was to
break into one of the handsome dwelling
houses in the neighborhood. He bit off
doorknobs, tore Off locks and plates, and
rent the woodwork of costly doors until
half a dozen of the buildings on the south
side of Eleventh street, ABOVE Columbia
| avenue, looked as though they had resisted
the efforts of gang of accomplished house.
breakers.
TRIED TO BITE OFF THE DooR-KNoB.
The dog began operations at No. 1705,
where reside Mrs. M. S. Marks, an aged
| lady, and her daughter. Mrs. Marks was
aroused from her sleep at o'clock by a ter
rifle noise at the front door and looked down
from her chamber window to see the huge
animal, with eyes like dim, decaying fire.
| Goals, in the act of tearing piece of the
walnut trimming from the woodwork. The
women were helpless and could do nothing
better than to scream from the window for
assistance. The dog, apparently alarmed
abandoned mis- attempt at 1705 and tried the
| next door, where he pulled off a plate bear
| ing the name of Eckert and then made an
onslaught upon the residence of NJ Bowman
| ct I'LL. Mr.. Bowman's door was speedily
| ruined and the canine housebreaker was
making rapid progress toward the interior
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his rear door in search of assist
| ance. But it was an hour when
honest watchmen are generally asleep, and
| MIR. Bowmans excited search, although
reinforced by couple of his elderly neigh
bors, failed to discover a patrolman until
the dog had had full SWING at the premises
for upward of an hour. Then Officer Ham
stead was found on Columbia avenue, but
| after glance at the dog from the corner
ne excused himself on the ground that lie was
unarmed. One of gang of street railway
| laborers who was brave enough to attempt
to pull the mastif from the steps by the
tail was put to flight, and no further inter-
ference was INDUCED in.
| BARRICADING THE HOUSES.
| The women in the besieged houses had
engaged themselves in the meantime in
pouring hot water from, upper windows
l upon the attacking animal, and under this
deluge the dog was finally put to fight,
| just as a quartette of officers from the
| twelfth district station, armed with re-
| volvers rounded the corner. Surrounded
in an alley running off Eleventh street, the
brute yielded UP his vicious career after a
dozen or more shots, one or two of which
/ took effect.
| The only casualty, singularly enough, &C.
/ Cured after the death. One of the blue
coated guardians who nervously raised a
cobble stone to crush in the dogs brain
beyond the possibility of revival, smashed
the toes of an Unlocking laborer known as
| Logmaro, who stood half a dozen feet
/ away.
| SEEKING THE DOGS OWNER
| Active search was made all dav for the
owner of the dog, whom the victims of the
rampage were DESTROYS of assessing for the
not inconsiderable damages sustained to
property. 1t was claimed that the owner
| ship of the animal rested with some ole of
the brewers in the neighborhood, and, as
complaint at the non-appearance of officers
during the trouble was lodged at the Twelfth
district station, a couple of them were de-
| tailed to canvass the wholesalers aud bring
in the responsible individual. This they
failed to do. and orders have now been
| issued to shoot mysterious dogs in the neigh
borhood on sight
The gaunt carcass of the brute that cre-
ated all the trouble, with lump in the
side like knot in pine board, supposed to
be a swallowed door knob, is still resting at
| the Twelfth district station house awaiting
| claimant.
Policeman Hamstead, in commenting
upon the occurrence, said: "Pve been on
this force for seventeen years and this is the
| wonderfulest dog arrangement ever see. y