The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-19
ODD STORIES OF DUMB ANIMALS.
Relating How They Unwittingly Injur
ed Taeir Owners.

Relating How They UnWittingly Injur-
ed Their Owners.
a Belfast woman named Watkins wa
suspected Of having stolen and hidden
in her house a quantity OF jewelry val
ped al two hundred pounds. Detec-
lives called and made a thorough
search, but failed to find the missing
property.
Just as they were leaving the last
room, having given up their task in de
spaiT, & eat which had been sitting with
her kittens in a basket in the corner
Got up, stretched herself and mewed.
One Of the officers turned back. looked
into the basket and there discovered the
jewelry hidden in the hay which formed
the cats bed. The cats owner is noN
eNpiating her crime in Jail.
Another curious case of an animal
unWittingly delivering it's master up t.
justice comes from Wednesday. An
ironworker of that town was cruel
enough to throw his dog down a dis
used coal pit sixty feet deep. The poor
creatures means were heard by pass
ets-by, and one of them named Will
liam JeaVons pluckily went down and
rescued the unfortunate beast. which
was badly injured. 1t was taken to the
police station and we'll looked after and
shortly recovered. But, as it was not
known to whom it belonged no steps
could be taken to punish the person re-
sp0nsible for the outrage.
week or two later the dog was ac-
companying one of the policemen
through the streets, when it suddenly
ran into house and began to play with
the children. The officer entered, and
the master Of the house confessed that
the dog belonged to him, and that he
had thrown it down the pit. He was at
once arrested and very heavily fined for
his brutal conduct.
A very peculiar case was recently re-
corded of such a harmless creature as
COW inflicting very serious loss upon its
owner. 4 farmer OF Lanark county,
near Ottawa, in Canada, had twenty
nine pounds sterling in notes Of the
Bank Of Ottawa. These he placed in a
pocket Of his coat, which he hung on
fence while he worked. When he came
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his coat to the ground, the notes had
fallen out and COW was quietly
chewing up the last Of them.
A hawl1er was recently before the
magistrates at Nottingham on q charge
of poaching. The keepers had suspect
ed him for a long time, but invariably
failed to catch him. On this occasion,
however, they had secured his dog,
which was brought into court. The
moment the poor faithful beast saw its
master it sprang out Of the arms Of the
policeman and rushed toward him. The
evidence was held to be complete and
the man was fined.
A most curious case of involuntary
damage done by an animal comes from
Worcestershire. During a heavy thun-
der storm last August a valuable horse
got terribly frightened and gallOping up
from the field toward the farm, got
wedged in its blind panic between
wire fence and a barn containing q
quantity of hay and valuable agricul-
tural implements. Lightning struck the
fence and. passing through the body Of
the horse, killed 1t, afterward setting
fire to the barn, which burned until 1t
was destroyed beyond the possibility Of
recognition.
Perhaps the most utter ruin ever in
ficted upon human beings by domestic
animals was in Patagonia four or five
years ago. A number Of Scotch croft
ers emigrated to north Patagonia and
began sheep farming, at which they
were very successful. They brought
out with them several valuable collies,
and these for time did good work.
But one winter one of these farmers
died suddenly His dogs, left without
food, began to devour the sheep. They
ran away, took to the hills and became
the pr0genitors of a race Of wild dogs
which come down in packs and kill the
sheep by hundreds.
So serious have matters become that
bounty Of two pounds head is Of
fered for these wild collies. If they are
not soon exterminated, it is said that
the settlement must be given up, owing
to the ravages Of these animals.-Lon-
don Answers.