New-York tribune., 1901-11-23
A DOG TURNS RUNAMAYS.
PULLS AT DRAGGING REIN WITH HIS
TEETH.
THEN POLICEMAN CATCHES HORSES-CAR
CRUsHES CAB CONTAINING FOUR PER-

THEN POLICEMAN CATCHES HORsEs-CAR
CRUsHEs CAB CONTAINING FOUR PER-
SONS AGAINST ELEVATED PILLAR.
Boozer. the bulldog which recently tried to
pull prostrate from In front Of an cleo
tric car, last night enabled d policeman TO stop
a team of runaway horses.
Four young persons. among whom were two
who said they Marion Sturgis and Arthur
Du Bois the two others being women. started
in coach from the Hotel Manhattan. Forty
second-st. and Madison-ave., to go to the knick-
erbocker Theatre. The coach driven by
Patrick Bennett of No. 213 Main-st.. Yonkers.
The party was In evening dress At Fifth-ave.
and Thirty -eighth-st Bennett turned west
toward Broadway AS the coach was approach
ing Sixth-ave, car was nearing Thirty eighth
st. at rapid rate. Bennett it is said whipped
up his horses with the intention of passing in
front of the
Benefits decision fatal The struck
the coach, jammed it against elevated pillar
and then stopped, because it simply could not
go any further The top of the coach split
open, the doors wrenched off and the four
occupants We're thrown to the street Bennett
was thrown high into the air. The horses broke
away from the coach, and with the pole drag
ging behind them. toward Broadway
Policeman Squires went after them and
grabbed the bride of the nigh horse. He was
thrown to the pavement. and the horses contin-
eud their flight. The persons who had been
thrown from the coach stunned and
shocked. the women being hysterical None were
seriously hurt. Bennett had many contusions
but refused to go to the hospital. Cabs were
called, and the party and driver went back to
the Hotel Manhattan
The coach total wreck, and the car
too was badly damaged. An emergency wagon
was sent for, and for half hour the south
bound track of the Sixth-ave. line was blocked
Relief was obtained at last by sending the car
back and forth by its power, this method
making spIinters of the coach and nearly tear
ing out the side CT the car. but finally resulting
in separating the and the coach.
The horses. after shaking off Policeman
Suuires had continued on TO Broadway and
turned north in that thoroughfare Here it
was according to several persons. that Boozer
showed his worth and wonderful sagacity again
Walking up Broadwag On NJ the 4o VS. sldE
fifth-st the owner of BOoZer, and William
Francis member of the City Club. Boozer was
there. too. The dog ran out in front or the
horses and barked loudly. He ran a few feet
ahead of them, barking and jumping up and
swapping at their noses The horses went the
faster BooZer finally got one OF the trailing
reins in his teeth and pulled on ii so vigorously
that the horses turned from Broadway into
Forty -first-st. and ran on the sidewalk on the
Policeman Collier of the West Thirtieth-st- sta
ton a splendid opportunity to grapple with the
horses, and he did. They We're still refractory.
but he brought them to standstill-
On November S Boozer distinguished himself
at Thirty-sixth-st and Broadway by rushing to
the aid of Mrs. Augusta Harper Lynde, of No
900 West Fffty-sixth-st.. who had fallen in the
path of a car. He seized her dress between his
/ teeth and tried to drag her from danger. Mrs.
( I.ynde is a relative of the Harpers, the pub
/ fishers On another occasion, his master says.
Boozer caught a burglar. holding the intruder
by the trousers until help came