The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-21
KILLED BY HER DOG
Awful Death of Mrs. CabuS of
New York.
SHE FELL ON HER PET
And He Tore at Her Throat
With His Teeth.

New York, March 2O-Mrs. Caroline B
Cabus. wife Of Joseph Cabus. wealthy
real estate broker, was killed last night
by her pet dog-a prize-winning fox ter
rier. Mrs. Cabus was seized with an cpl
leptic tit and evidently fell upon the
dog.
The animal turned in rage and tore
at the woman's throat. severing the
jugular vein. and before help arrived
Mrs. Cabus was dead.
Mrs. Cabus was IS years of age. Her
husband owns the handsome six-story
apartment house at No. 852 and 354 West
Eighteenth street, and they have lived
! for several years in one of thees apart
ments with Mrs. Cabus mother and
uncle-AIrs. Elizabeth Broadhead and
| Philip Rockefeller.
| There were no children, but both hus-
| band and wife were exceptionally fond
! Of the handsome terrier that had won
several ribbons at the Madison Square
! Garden bench shows
/ The terrier was Mrs. Cabus' faithful
! attendant and stood by her last evening
as she worked in the kitchen preparing a
dainty dinner for her husband. The ser
want was out
The husband had promised to return
/ by 7:30 o'clock Meantime Mrs. Broad
! head prepared the table in the dining
! room, which is separated from the kitch-
en- by long han.
Rockefeller sat in the parlor at the
1 olher end of the fat.
Mrs. Cabus had been an invalid for
several years and was subject to epilep-
tic fits. The unaccustomed heat of the
stove made her dizzy and faint, but with
wifeIV pride she kept at her work. con-
tenting herself for discomfort with the
thoughts Of the satisfaction her husband
would take in the dinner so daintily pre-
pared
The terrier frisked about and barted
joyfully as though sharing his mistress
delight.
Then suddenly the heat became ever
towering. Mrs Cabus evidently felt that
she was succumbing, and gropcI blin6ly
for the hallway leading to the dining
room, where her mother was.
Just as she reached the hall she fell ~
/ a CONFUSION. and the dog friskgag about
her, was evidently struck by her cat
stretched arms.
The Joyous bark was turned at once to
a snarl. and the terrier, with brute in
stinct. sprang at his mistress throat
Mrs. Broadhead, hearing the sound of
her daughters fan, rushed to the kitch-
en. The sight of the maddened brute
tearing at the throat of her daughter al
M ost crazed the aged woman.
The mothers screams quickly aroused
the other tenants. who rushed to the
aDarl.ments and crowded the hall. but
stood huddIed together speechless with
terror.
Before them lay the unconscious
woman on whose breast crouched the
dog. his eyes blazing with fury. Then
Suddenly through the crowd broke aged
Mrs Broadhead. With a courage born
Of despair. she ran to her daughters
I side caught the dogs head in both her
hands and forced the jaws of the brute
anart and hten. stu mad with terror,
raised the brute on high and flung it
( across the room.
The dog. thoroughly cowed, skunk into
A bedroom near by, and a neighbor
/ slammed the door and kept him prisoner
( there.
Some one had run across the street for
DIR. IT. j. Fischer. and others carried
Mrs. Cabus to a bed. The doctor looked
at the woman but once. She is dead,
he said
Mrs. Broadhead. who had proved so
brave before, fell senseless at his words.
sobbing neighbors busted themselves
tending TO the dead woman and the
senseless one, and as they moved about
the electric bell rang and Mr.. Cabus ran
nimbly $50 the stairs
one glance at the excited crowd in the
apartments told him that something
was wrong. He dared not ask. but sym
pathetic ones gently broke to him the
awful news.
+ Coroner Hart, who happened to be
passing through Eighteenth street, was
attracted by the excitement and made
an immediate Investigation and gave a
burial permit.
Late last night the dog was still a
prisoner in the little bed room. The So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals viii be notified today and asked
to take the brute away.
When You are bilious. use those famous
little pills known as DeIitts Little Early
Risers 10 cleanse the liver and bowels.
They never gripe- Gus SaUr, "a f. Doug