The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-06
Mr.. MCCARTHY REPLIES
He Disposes of Samuel w.
Rushmore and His Dog
Killing Scheme.

In speaking of Samuel w. Rusnmore,
who in local paper on Saturday criti-
cized the methods the S. p c. A. fol-
low in disposing of stray dogs. George
NJ. Mccarthy, President of the S. P. c. A,
said today:
1.-THE S. P. c. A. all over the world is
organized for the protection of animals;
not for their wanton and unlawful de-
struction. There are some people, Ike
Mr. Rushmore, to be found in all large
cities who have an unnatural and inhu-
man desire to kill every creature thai
comes their way. They only stop at homi-
eide. Mr.. Rushmore Joined the Hudson
County Society lmbued with the idea tnat
its two great principles were to maks
wholesale arrests Of persons technically
but not Intentionally guilty of petty crue--
ty and to make excursions throughout the
city picking up your neighbors' inoffensivc
pet dogs and killing them. We disabused
his nina of this outrageous idea, ana
therat he waxed indignant and started a
campaign of abuse against us. Then he
made a death box out of a locomotive
headlight and connecting it by a rubber
tube commenced to carry out his cruel
work to his own satisfaction. l have had
Mr.. Rushmore interviewed, and am talk
ing from facts gained by his own admis-
sions
"Emulating the big, hungry spider, Rush
more as he has been doing for two years
past, sat in his parlor' waiting for the
unsuspecting fly to get within MS
clutches. Along came a small fox terrier
dog, young, healthy, full of fire and with
out biemish. Out pounced the spider,
and The victim was dragged inside IT,.
web. A rope was tied around the unof-
Tending creatures neck and a boy was
hired to lead it to the S. P. C. A. Tell
them to kill it, said Rushmore. in high
glee
THE dog arrived in due season. and was
so frolicsome and playful that it was
kept at the Society's office 1t had been
some child's pet and showed every evil
dence of affection. Seeing it run about
called it ta1rd it piayfulls licked my, harfcs.
What would the 1,400 members and sub
scribers of the Society say, and wha.
would the public say, and what woul1
they do if I had wantonly and wickedly
caused the death of a perfectly healthy
ana harmless creature who had strayed
from good home and who stood there
with wistful eyes ready and willing tu
love ana serve any new master who might
give 1t home?
1.-The Society takes pride in the fact
that it never destroys a dog when it cau
get 1t a home, and if the party who took
REshmore's victim unintentionally allow
ed it to escape, we should not be blamed
for it. The mistake was made by the dog
1t had been fed by Rushmore and it went
back for another meal. Rushmore cruel
ly grabbed the unsuspecting animal,
jammed it inside of a locomotive head
light and filled the headlight and the dog
full of gas. Then he destroyed the evl-
dence of his brutal eccentricity by throw
ing the dog into blazing furnace. Rusl,
more admits ali this and prides himself
for it.
''By the way. Mr.. Rushmore, if Re was
correctly reported. made a misstatemert
when he SAID he talked with me on the
telephone had no conversation with
him until he had exploded himself into
the newspapers. He also said he is a
member of the Society. He could hardly
be as he failed to pay his dues for 1902
and the only way he ever did aid the
Society was to catch dogs and order them
killed This grievance ,ative to the 81
ciety failing to catch dogs on the streets
is preposterously malicious, as the Society
or its officers never had such power until
May l of this year, an enabling act hav-
ing been passed during the closing hours
of the last session of the present Legis-