Evening journal., 1893-05-24
DICK CALLED His MASTER
HIS BIG FRIEND ROVER WAS POls-
ONED BY BURGLARS.
They Were Robbing the Post Omce, and
There Was "a Serious State Of Affairs,
So lie Hurried on to tho Postmaster's

There Was - Serious State Of Affairs,
So lie Hurried on to the Postmaster's
James H. Wyune, the postmaster OF
Edgewater, N. is the owner of several
handsome dogs, says the New York Sun.
Two of them, Rover, huge Newfound-
land, and Dick, "a crossed st. Bernard, he
has kept locked at night ia the post
Office as guardians The one story
wooden building stands about fifty feet
from a small inlet of the Hudson, and is
partitions off into two rooms. which
are occupied by Wynne Bros as meat
and grocery shops Ia the latter is the
post Office the safe on the left side of
the room as you enter, and the pigeon.
holes ON the right The house fronts on
the river road and has two entrances
there a double and a single door
About 5i o'clock Sunday morning
j. II. Wynne, the postmaster, who
resides at Shadyside, a mile and half
below Edgewater, was awakened by the
barking OF dog. The bark had some
thing familiar about 10 and he got up
and looked out In the yard below he
saw his 50. Bernard, Dick, making fran.
tic Efforts to get into the house He
had left Dick and the other dog locked
up in the postotlice, and he knew at
once that something must have gone
wrong there So be dressed himself
hurredly and started for Edgewater.
with Dick at his side When he reached
there he met g. H. Nash, a chemist in
the Hudson River Chemical Works, who
lives on small hill in front OF the post
office, aud who had also been aroused by
the barking OF a dog.
Something's wrong here, said the
postmaster "come and 20 in with me-
They walked to the building and found
the door of the meat store partly open,
and with large auger hole bored near
the keyhole. When the two men passed
into the grocery store where the post
office is, they saw that the safe had been
moved from it's place and that its open
door was shattered. Scattered about
the il0or was mass of alum The lock
and the tin cash box were twisted out of
shape, and the tea boxes ON the shelves
nesr by were punctured here and there
as 1T by dying pieces of iron, and the
sugar bin and the ceiling showed long
scratches The glass of the adjacent
cigar cases was broken as If by concus.
sion In the safe door was a small
smoothly bored hole.
Everything Of value had been taken
from the safe, even to blank money
order book Stamps to the amount of
$3.50 and $50 or $50 I'm cash was missing.
While the postmaster and Mr.. Nash
were looking at the scene Of destruction
| they were attracted by the sound of a
dog whining behind the pigsonbole par.
| titiun. There they found Rover. the
Newfoundland, writhing in pain and
| ffothing at the mouth. The chemist
knew I'm a moment that the dog was
/ dying of poison Dick kept moving rest.
lessly about his suffering fellow and max
/ ing little noises of sympathy. Rover
died soon aiterward. A two-inch hole
was found I'm the grocery door, and
around It's edges were blood stains, where
doubtless a piece Of poisoned meat had
been thrust through
An the drawers of the desk had been
forced open, and from one Of them a
letter written by Pink Utley, a colored
laborer I'm the New York aud Susque.
hanna tunnel had been taken. It had
been registered by him on Saturday On
the floor Of the Office the open letter was
found lt began MY dear father, en-.
closed l send you $50
The fact that none Of the Edgewatsr
people noticed the explosion is due to the
amount of blasting done at the tunnel
The burglars apparently did not make
preparations for two dogs If they had
put two pieces of meat through the hole
Dick probably would have got one of
them How much fight he made against
the burglars is not known he probably
did what he thought was the sensible
thing in running off TO tell his master.