The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-09
TIP BREAKS JAIL.
Prisons Celebrated
Dog Kills Himself
~ Playing Ball.
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NEWARK, Oct. ., 1sOO-Tip broke Jail
Saturday. He left the Essex County
Prison, on Newark street, never to return,
although he had seen a willing captive
'tusty," for eleven years. II you take
the word of Warden Hosp, the keepers,
and of the prisoners themselves, Tip was
just about the best dog that ever happen
ed, anywhere. and it will be hard for
everybody behind the bars up the grim
old stone building. willing or the reverse,
to realize that this faithful creature Is
really gon where bolts and bars are un-
known, where the jingle of keys and the
clank of grated doors is never heard.
Tip was great on playing ball You
could throw ball 100 feet, and so quick
was he at the game that he would get to
the spot long before the ball did, and
then, impatient, he would jump up to
meet it, as it wer, half way. The keepers
were forever playing this game with him
and one of them was at it Saturday
afternoon in the main corridor of the Jail.
Up went the ball ,as high as the corridor
would permit, and up went Tip after 1t.
Sometimes he would turn a somersault
in struggling to catch the sphere in his
glistening teeth.
This time he turned in air, with great
force, but he was too near the corridor
wall, and as he turned he hurled himself
too far over and his head went against
the unyielding stone with cruel force His
neck was broken. The dog fell limp to the
floor. twitched little and lay still. The
warden. who had been the other member
in the game, called his comrades with sol
emn voice, and they gathered around the
silent body. Then they wrapped 1t up in
blankets and laid it tends<ly away, and
yesterday it was sent to the man who
stuffs birds and animals in little shop
just above police headquarters. Warden
Hosp, like all the rest, was very much at
tached to the dog and he has ordered that
its body be stuffed and mounted. so that
it may be preserved in as lifelike an atti-
tude as possible.
Warden Marshall brought the dog with
him when he went to the Jail eleven
years ago. Tip was a cross between a
bulldog and a bloodhound, strong, active
and intelligent. He soon learned the
ways of the prison and beyond any sort
of question grew to know very well thar
the men who came there were to be
watched. In all the eleven years, after
he once got to understand things, he
never failed to inform the prison, with
his barking, of the approach of the van
with its fresh batch of prisoners, He
always made it point to present HIM
self at the office just before IL, and War
den KENNEL one of the head keepers.
said he would have missed being on
hand for the van more than once had
it not been for Tips barlkings. Away off
in the corners of the jail the prisoners
would smile grimly as they heard that
bark, loud and insistent
But Tiap seemed to take upon himself
part of the responsibilities of guarding
the men behind the bars. The keepers
say he grew to have rounds of his own
He was not content with going about
from corridor to corridor with this keeper
or that so he established time for sur-
veying the prison all by himself TheygeY
that at certain hours Tip wouldsstar out
and go his rounds and It Is common talk
in the jail that he had come upon several
prisoners in the act of trying to commit
suicide. and had alarmed the prison. He
knew at once, as he glanced in the cells.
whether anything unusual was going on
Heswas known throughout the entirs
country, wherever the former prisoners oA
the iail have gone,