The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-04
POLICE CHASED PIGS.
City Officers Helped Capture Them In
Police Barracks Yard.


In the yard of the police barracks yes
terday afternoon there was lively time
that will not soon be forgotten either by
those that had a hand in it or by those
who looked on. 1t was no more nor less
than pig chase. and corking good one
at that; and anyone that doesn't believe
a festive porker on mischief bent can fur
nish a lively time, has never tried TO
drive or catch one.
The pigs had been captured about two
weeks ago, arrested for being at large on
the street. No owner put in a claim for
them and so, as the rules of the city pre-
vents. their being sold until they have
been held six months, they were locked
up in cell at the station house where
they were apparently fairly contented, not
being under the necessity of cudgelling
their brains either to secure bondsman,
or to prove an alibi that would hold good
The only thing that gave them any con-
Germ whatsoever was the cramped quar-
ters, and so these they speedily exchanged
for the barrack yard, when, yesterday,
by some accident the door of their cell
and the outer door of the lookup were
left open at the same time
Then the fun began. pigs in clover
key, and, later, other officials around po-
lice headquarters, had on their hands,
The turnkey had his fun first. Some
where in the country, or through reading
he had learned to call pigs, and so his
mellow baritone fioated out and echoed
around the walls and cells in a "who-o-p
whoo-o-p, whoo-opee," that, according to
stories of the farm life, ought to have
brought all well-mannered pigs straight
NIT mic eli
| had forgotten the call or feared that to
recognize it might prove their rusticity, or,
| possibly, they had some other porcine rea-
! son-anyway, they serenely continued to
MUNICH grass and root away without pay
ing the least attention to the turnkey or
anybody else.
The turkeys call to slops had brought
many spectators to the scene, however,
among them Alderman Edwin Frank, Po-
lice Surgeon Elton S. Osborne, Superin-
tendent of Police owen Reilly, work
hands, sally port man, and a miscelane-
Gus motley that would have done credit to
comic opera stage.
| council of war was held, and 1t was
determined, after much deliberation, TO
run the pigs down, so the gallant super
intendent formed his host with plckets,
| skirmish. line and a few other warlike
! arrangements, and then moved forward
| with his full force. The pigs trekkad,
executed "A flank movement and occupied
a position to the rear of the aggressive
| force. This broke up into small comman-
does ana again charged the pigs, which
made a break for the sally port. This
was calamity defended by Alderman
Frank, who succeeded in turning the fly
! ing enemy.
Several times members of the superin-
| tendent's army laid hands on the pigs
but they were quite as slippery as their
'Boer'' brethren of the Transvaal. and
1t was not until most of the wind had
given out that one was captured in a
gallant charge by DR.. Osborne. The 9TH
er one. disheartened by the loss of half
his force. was driven into spruit in the
form of bicycle house, and there forced
| to surrender to an overwhelming force.