The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-05-30
THE GOuEAL OF q PIG.
1t Made TrDuDlc for the Owner, but Savet
t. O1O to a Eank.

u AaNN y 'Ey - INK DoL sdESU
>sG0,O0O to a Eank.
Earl one morning not long ago a
pig up in Catawissa, Pa, squealcd.
said John Gilbert, the travelling grocer
man. and that squeaI was worth sixty
thousand dollars. 1t WASH worth that
to the pig. nor to the pigs owner, but
it had that solid value to the First Ma
tiOnal bank of Catawissa. Almost
everybody keeps a pig in Catawissa.
John Hulshizer, a modest citizen. owns
one. The Hulshizer pig is a particularly
ObstrcpcrOus one, and hates ~conine-
mcnt. 1t is always trying to get out of
its pen. and now and then succeeds. 1t
makes its effort to escape always at
highland citizen Hulshizer may be said
to nave acquired the habit of sleeping
with one eye and both ears open in
expectation of having to arise at almost
any hour of the night to circuInvent his
PIC in some attempt to get IL Of its
sly.
On the occasion I speak of, Hulshizer
opened his sleeping eve and jumped out
Of g about half past three in the
morning. The agOnizing squeal of a
pig was in n air. He recognized it at
once as the voice of his impatient pork
"r. lie hustled out to its pen as sOOn as he
could. and found that the pig had broken
of a board at one side of the stv and
had attempted to escape through the
opening thus made. But the opening
was too small for the urpose, and the
PIC had been caught amidships in it, and
could neither get any further on its road
to freedom nor return to its prison.
Hence its vocifcrOus squeal.
(Itizen llulShiZer at Onc set to work
to enlarge the opening SO that he could
get his pig back in the pen. but he over
looked the fact that the enlargement
would give the animal an equal chance
to get ont. Indeed. as soon as there
wa space enough the ungrateful an
imal gathered itself together, sprang
clear of the Obstruction, and ran at the
top Of its speed down the street.
llulshizer followed it on Il dead run. but
did not succeed in overwhelming the pig
until the chase had led them to the door
of the First National bank. There the
pcrspirinT and painting owner Of the
pig got close enough to grab it. and the
pig instantly resumed its piercing and
far-reaching squeal. Citizen Hulshizer
held fast TO the pig, and vas about head
ing it for home when three men came
%tumbling helter-skelter out Of the bank.
and tore wildly away, soon disappearing
in the darkness.
strange as it may seem, HuiShiZcr
was 50 taken up with the capture of
his PIC and concerned abOut getting it
back home that the incident of tie men
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him as Of particular significance. He
got his pig home and safely housed,
and went to bed again. Then, as his
nerves became quiet, he got to think
ing about the men who had left the
bank 50 hurriediy.
"'Why, say ne thought by and by,
that pig scared them ~felIers SO that
they didn't take time TO lock the bank
door.
Then Citizen fIulshizer got up again
and went back to the bank. The door
was wide open. 50 he aroused a citizen
living near the bank. That citizen in
attempting to come out of his door
found his way blocked by strong wires
that were strung from jalnb to jamb.
BY this time others living in the imme-
diatc vicinity Of the bank were aroused.
and every door leading out of their
houses was found INSTRUCTED by wires.
1t was broad daylight before any AZ
animation was made of the bank. The
outer door had been opened by means
of holes that had been drilled through
it near the lock, so hat the bolts were
readily moved. The vault door had
been opened by drilling, and the safe
in the vault was bored through and,
as the bankers declared when they
came, would have opened to the efforts
of the burglars in five minutes more.
There vas sixty thousand dollars in
bank notes and coin in the safe. If it
hadn't been for the Opportune squeal Of
Citizen H~ulshizer's pig hat sixty thou
sand dollars would have changed hands
five minutes later. SO the pigs squeal
was worth sixty thousand dollars-tO
the hank."-N. y. Sun.