The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-16
MRS. THoRNBs DOG AND CAT.
Annoyed NEr. Kirkwood Once, But,
AlaHi Mo MARA -

Annoyed MIR. KirkyyOod once, 6uts
Alas! No More.
Although Mrs. Edwin c. Thorne of No.
1905 Garden street. Hoboken, is entirely will
ing to make affidavit that her Skye terrier
Fido, was the very quintessence OF loveliness
itself, her neighbor, Alexander Kirkwood,
upon whom rests the charge Of having pois-
oned Fido, had cultivated an opinion rather
different. Whether Mr.. Kirkwood actually
seasoned with strychnine the meat that Fldo
ate and died of soon afterwards, only, says
Mr.. Krkwood, he knows, and very far from
telling just now is he inclined. Last Sunday
morning Fido requested permission to take
constitutional exercise in the rear yard
Mrs. Thorne allowed him to, q
watched him cavort about the
place from a rear window. The dog pres
emily picked up a piece OF something and
commenced chewing on it. Inside or ten
m inutes Fido's face wore a sorry, expression.
His eyes began rolling and he looked wild.
Mrs. Thorne thought he had swalloweda
brick and ran down stairs to let him 10. She
was about to administer castor oil as an
emetic, when Fido ave a parting squeal
and keeled over onto his back. His four
paws shot out straight from his trunk as O
sign that he was dead. Mrs. Thorne begged
Fido a few times to speak. if only a word,
but Fido couldn't if he had wanted to, for
he was a very lead dog. After the obse-
quies Mrs. Thorne consulted the s. z. G. A.
and presented them with all she knew of it.
She said that after Fido died, on Sunday
night, she saw Mr.. k1rkwood sneak
up to the high board fence that separates the
two yards, and toss over a fish. 1t was
about ten o'clock. She got the fish and
found it sprinkled with a powder. a
powder proved to be s~trychnine, as analysed
by DR.. Smith, druggist, Of Bloomfield street.
Mr.. Kirkwood was promptly charged with
MI 10 A r.f1I raH
him. Besides Fido, Mrs. Thorne had a cat,
a dear little feline that has one and a half
! eyes blind. She alleges that Kirkwood help
ed blind the cat by throwing hot water on 1t.
Kirkwood does not deny that he threw
water, but says that it wasn't warm enough
to blind cats-only about bathing tempera-
ture. The cat is a nice affair, that doesn't
scratch children and is happiest when petted.
It's a veritable purring factory and can be
heard through a wall. That what Mr..
Kirkwood doesn't like. Mrs. Thorne thinks
her cat stays at home, but Mr.. kirkwood
has an idea that it's Mrs. Thorne's little
pussy cat that sings so much on his back
fence and puts its feet into his milk pans on
the pack stoop. Mrs. Thorne's cat, he thinks,
buns with q few others in the ~neighborhood,
all of whom combine to torment him, they
safely perched on his fence. Cats always have
a desire for back fences, anyhow, but Mr.
Kirkwood thinks his is tie chosen spot on
the block. The cats must know, he thinks,
that he doesn't love them much. Mrs.
Thorne Is of the opinion that a Maltese
cat that she owned once, the very
dearest thing ever built, died of
poison from Mr. Kirkwood's house. She
says her cats used often to come home after
moons after visiting, very sick, and she
would feed them castor oil, and-well, she
thinks they were poisoned all along.
Fido, Old several occasions before his sad de-
mise, had fits, too, from poison, tits thought,
and castor oil fixed him up. Castor OILS a
poison.
Mr.. Kirkwood denied everything connect
ed with poisoning when seen by a reporter,
and only said:-"Let her prove her charges
He did not grieve over the migration of
Fldo,s soul