The herald., 1895-03-19
1T WAS ALMOST A CANICIDE
How a RedOndO Beach Tragedy Was
Averted
Mr.. de Doe and Kiss de Roe Tried on
Sunday and Fined for Cruel
Conduct

A story of affection, which not only was
.unrequited, but nearly led to the death
by drowning OF one of the parties at the
instigation of the other had it's denoue-
ment on Sunday in the Redondo JUS
tice's court.
If it was one of those everyday affairs
in which a homeless. starving, flea bitten
yellow dog takes up with the star boarder
of restaurant because Of the prospective
rib steak bones that his mental eyes sees
coming for him, it would have been a
waste of time to chronicle this tragedy.
But in this case the high lineage of he
and the tail done up like Berlin pretzel.
widely proclaimed, made OF the attempted
dogicide almost a scandal in high life.
This deluded pug then, whose master is
a railroad conductor had formed fervid
attachment, which was not returned, for
a lady. whose name in the records of the
Justices court was inscribed as Mile de
Roe. The more the pug tried to ingrati-
ate himself with the mademoiselle the
worse she liked him, and many time did
she say, "Ah! mon Dieu, so as not to
give vent to an exclamation which would
have sounded much worse in plain
United States. There is no gainsaying
the fact. although it looks paradoxical,
but the yellow beast was her bette noire.
On Sunday morning Mile. de Roe went
to the beach to take her ante-lunchevn
pasear, followed of course, by her devoted
admirer who cared no more for Mon
Deus" than he did for dried apples. On
the sands madamoiselle met Monsieur
Jean de Doe at least that is the name
that appears on the blotter. to whom the
lady appealed for protection from "a
monstre" of pug.
"Mais certainlee, wherefor not? If you
shall welsh his humiliation, yer we'll by
gar, it shall be accompl immediatement,
if not zee sooner. Oui, oui."
And thereupon, with malice afore-
thought, did Monsieur de Doe and Mile.
de Roe complot and conspire to kill. muir
der and drown the unsophisticated ''tou-
ton." He was coaxed to the end of the
wharf and then thrown bodily into the
sea. Unlike the late lamented McGinty'
he declined to go to the bottom, but on
the contrary tried to scramble up out of
the water by hanging with his toe nails
to the clusters of mussels of the piles.
1t can be imagined how madamoiselle
hated the pug, as the witnesses of this
blood-thirsty scene reported that not only
the professor-that is, if he was pro-
struggles of the drowning canine with an
interest akin to that with which the Yes
tails in ancient Rome followed the peripe-
ties of fight between gladiators, before
turning down their thumbs.
But retribution was at hand in the per-
SOH VI n ITOCuTeur Qe Ia hcpuUllQuc
who was recovering from the fatigue of an
arson prosecution by smiling the sea
breeze and eating razor clans. By virtue
of the authority vested in him, &C., an
imposing physique and loud voice he
persuaded M. de Doe to jump into boat
very promptly and rescue the bow-wow.
And then came the constable with his big
tin star, who arrested both conspirators
for cruelty to animals.
The procession wendell its weary way to
the establishment where justice is dealt
out in homeopathic doses on the beach
and there, "Oh, mon Dieu" once more
for full weight, these two great crimi.
mails were accused of attempted murder
upon the person of one little pug with a
corkscrew caudal appendage whose cogno-
men affiant saith not.
Sooner than to stand the blistering
words which the procureur. who was pre-
pared for an oratorical effort that would
have sawed an ear off the justice, might
have hurled upon the devoted sunburned
heads, monsieur ana mademOlSelle
pleaded guilty, and paid into the ex-
chequer of his honor 50 apiece. Then
human nature could endure it no longer
And the wet bow-wow cast a look of scorn
upon her and caught flea.
All kinds of influences were made to
bear upon the minions of the law to have
the prosecution squelched, but it was
useless, justice had to take its course.
Even when gentleman OF the cloth ap-
pealed to the procurator to relent the
answer was that this was too grave case
for the Church of Rome to NEEDLE with.
1t seems that the pug had A. p. A. affili
atoms.