Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-09-01
Has the Dog a Spirit ?
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peNed statements set out what occur
red quite clearly,
Thought Il Dream,
} Thinking that the whole thing was
nothing more than disagreeahle
dream, | made NO inquiries about the
dos and never learned even that It
was missing until that Sunday night.
when my little girl. who is in the habit
Ior feeding t. told me So. At break.
fast time, may add nobody knew that
it was some, as II had been seen late
ON the previous evening Then l re.
memhered my dream, and the following
day inquiries wer set on foot,
TO he brief, on the morning OF
Thursday, the l4th, my servant
Charles BedmgAeld, and | discovered
the body Of the dog floating in the
Waveney against weir about a mile
and quarter away, The two GER
thcatos Of the veterinary surgeon. MIR,
Nmnane, are inelosed herewith They
sufficiently describe its condition.
On Friday, the 18th, was going In
to Rungay to oHor reward for the
discovery Of the persons who were
supposed to have destroyed the dog In
the fashion suggested in Mr. Mullane's
first certificate, when at the level
crossing ON the Buugay road ! was
hailed by two platelayors, who are
named respectively George Anterior
and Harry Agar, These men inform,
cd mo that the dog had been killed by
a train, and took me on trolley down
TO a certain openworll bridge which
crosses the water between Buckingham
and Rungay. whore they showed me
evidences Of It's death This Is the
sum of their evidence:
Sum of the Evidence,
It appears that about I o'clock upon
the Monday morning, very shortly after
the first train had passed, In the
course OF his duties Harry Agar was
ON the bridge, whore he found dogs
collar torn OFF and broken by the en-.
CINE (since produced and positively
lNtuiilitN NS llldA WIZ " Wy hbN't NNaBh-
lated blood aud bits of flesh, Of which
remnants he cleaned the rails. On
search also personally found portions
Of black hair from the coat of dog, On
the Monday afternoon and subsequent.
~ his mate saw the Lody of the dog
floating down to the weir Il having
risen with the natural expansion of
gases, such as. In this hot weather,
might be expected 20 occur within
about forty hours of death. II would
seem that the animal must have been
killed by an excursion train that left
buckingham at 1925 on Saturday
night, returning empty from Hnrleston
a little after H. This wns the last
train which ran that night. No trains
run ON Sunday and II Ia practically
on the Monday morning. for then the
blood would have been still fluid. AL.
so men who were working around when
the $50 train passed must have seen
the dog on the line (thoy were ques.
toned by Agar at the time and had
seen nothlngl, and the engine driver
In broad daylight would also have wit.
messed and made report Of the acct.
dent. of which In n dark night he
would probably know nothing, Further,
If II was living, the dog would almost
certainly have como home during Sun
day. and Its body would not have risen
/ so quickly from the bottom OF the
river. or presented the appearance II did
on Thursday morning, From traces
left upon the piers Of the bridge II ap
pears that the animal was Knocked or
carried along some yards by the train
and fell into the brink of the water
where reeds grow. Here, II II were still
living, and, although the veterinary
thinks that death was practically In.
Simultaneous, It's life may perhaps have
suffocated and sunk, undergoing.
imagine, much the same sensations as
did in my dream, and in very similar
surroundings 10 those that saw there.
in namely, among a scrubby growth
at the edge OF water.
A Few Conclusions.
Both IN judicial and a private
capacity / have been accustomed all
my life to the investigation of evil
damon and 10 tUa rouy uut aside our